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Czech Republic: Political Developments and Data in 2021. Historic Electoral Loss of the Left.
This report represents a contribution to the Political Data Yearbook, which is published yearly by European Journal of Political Research. Several important events occurred in Czech politics in 2021. The cabinet of Prime Minister Babiš primarily focused on tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Four cabinet changes were made, two affecting the Health Minister and two affecting the Foreign Minister. The Constitutional Court repealed several sections of the electoral law governing the general election, leaving only a …
The Polls—Trends: Welfare Regimes and Support for Income Redistribution in Europe.
Income redistribution and changes in redistributive policies are highly contested issues that often have a bearing on societal debate and electoral competition. Using European Social Survey data, we trace trends in public attitudes toward income redistribution in 18 European countries from 2002 to 2019, a time period which included the Great Recession, the 2015 migrant crisis, and an increase in income inequality. Although attitudes toward income redistribution were relatively stable, trends presented by count…
Czech Republic: Political Developments and Data in 2022: Parallel Crises Give the New Government No Time to Waste.
The war in Ukraine dominated Czech politics in 2022. The Cabinet of Petr Fiala militarily and politically supported the Ukrainian defence efforts against the Russian adversary. Fiala visited Ukraine twice in 2022 (being the first Western leader, along with the Slovenian and Polish prime ministers, to meet with Zelensky in Kyiv on 15 March). Senate and local elections occurred in the autumn. Fiala’s party (Civic Democratic Party, ODS) had the strongest showing in the Senate election, while the ANO party of th…
Využití víceúrovňových modelů při analýze kontextuálních efektů míry ekonomické aktivity na podporu přerozdělování v komparativních longitudinálních datech.
Tento článek analyzuje souvislosti mezi mírou ekonomické aktivity v evropských zemích a postoji k přerozdělování příjmů. Článek zároveň ukazuje, jak specifikovat víceúrovňový model při analýze kontextuálních efektů, představuje několik typů struktur náhodných efektů a možnosti centrování vysvětlujících proměnných v komparativních longitudinálních datech. U v čase měnících se kontextuálních proměnných, jako je například míra ekonomické aktivity, je kontextu…
Czech Republic: Political Developments and Data in 2023. Legislative Battles: Pension Law Amendment and Opposition Obstructionism.
The 2023 Czech presidential elections, characterized by high turnout and the victory of retired General Petr Pavel in a run-off against former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, marked a significant shift in the country’s political landscape. These elections were marked by intense debates on candidates’ backgrounds and foreign policy orientations, highlighting voters’ preference for pro-Western ideals. Meanwhile, the Cabinet of Petr Fiala witnessed four ministerial changes affecting the Ministry of the Enviro…
Výzkumná zpráva z první vlny sběru dat (České panelové šetření středoškoláků)
Na podzim školního roku 2023/24 byla realizována první vlna sběru dat mezi žáky a žákyněmi prvních ročníků středních škol a odpovídajících ročníků víceletých gymnázií. Celkem se do výzkumu zapojilo 249 škol a více než 24 000 žáků a žákyň z celé České republiky. Tato výzkumná zpráva představuje základní informace o tom, jak žáci a žákyně prvního ročníku vnímají sami sebe, jaké mají studijní aspirace, vztah ke škole a s jakou úrovní kritického myšle…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Identity, Migration and Mobility, Politics and Political Attitudes, Education
Czech Social Attitudes in the European Context
Czech Social Attitudes in the European Context: In the Heart of Europe reflects the political, welfare, and general social attitudes in the Czech Republic, which has 30 years of existence, in European comparison. In nine chapters, the team of contributors address understanding and evaluations of democracy, discriminated group identity, satisfaction with democracy, distributive justice beliefs, support for income redistribution, pay fairness, equity norms, life satisfaction, job satisfaction, subjective we…
Topics: European Union, Trust/Social Cohesion, Interpersonal Relations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Public Opinion
Welfare Regimes and Support for Income Redistribution in Europe
Income redistribution and changes in redistributive policies are highly contested issues that often have a bearing on societal debate and electoral competition. Using European Social Survey data, we trace trends in public attitudes toward income redistribution in 18 European countries from 2002 to 2019, a time period which included the Great Recession, the 2015 migrant crisis, and an increase in income inequality. Although attitudes toward income redistribution were relatively stable, trends presented by count…
Topics: Economy, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Czech Republic: Political Developments and Data in 2020
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Czech Republic
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Decision makers’ preferences of policy instruments
The article empirically tests the theoretical propositions on instrument choice articulated by Linder and Peters and their followers. It examines whether decision makers tend to prefer some policy instruments over others, what the patterns of these preferences are, and how they can be explained. Using a survey of Czech ministerial and regional public officials involved in strategic policymaking (N = 1,112), the findings confirm that individuals exhibit clear patterns of instrument preference that are similar t…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Policy, Public Policy
Czech Republic: Political Developments and Data in 2019
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Comparing Citizen Attitudes towards Security and Liberty in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Comparing Citizen Attitudes towards Security and Liberty in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. One of the key problems of our time is how much security we want, what price we are willing to pay to feel safe and whether safety leads to satisfaction. Security has a financial and political cost. The article focuses on the relationship between security and privacy from the point of view of a citizen. It examines Czech and Slovak citizen attitudes toward the use of strong prevention security measures in a situation w…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
What's past is prologue, or is it? Generational effects on voter turnout in post-communist countries, 1990-2013
A common theme in studies of voter turnout in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is that the legacy of communism attenuates electoral participation. It is argued that socialization and the political habits that emerged under communism impeded democratic development by not motivating citizen activism. This paper examines this claim for voter turnout in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland for all general elections since 1990 using cohort analysis on pooled crosssectional post-election surveys from gi…
Topics: Elections and Electoral Research
Sociální stát, nerovnosti, politika. Postoje české veřejnosti k sociálnímu státu v letech 1996 až 2016
Welfare State, Inequalities, Politics: The Czech Public’s Attitudes towards the Welfare State between 1996 and 2016This book examines the broad expectations and perceptions residents of the Czech Republic have had of the welfare state from the 1990s to the present (most of the analyses cover the period up to 2016 and some up to 2018). More specifically, it looks at what the Czech public thinks about the scope of the welfare state (i.e. what services should the welfare state provide), the amount of social spe…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Policy
Czech Republic: Political Developments and Data in 2018
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Vnímání příjmových nerovností a preference ohledně rozdělení příjmů v České republice
Representative survey of adult population is used to analyse perceptions of existing income inequality and preferences for ideal income distribution in the Czech Republic. On average, Czechs view the distribution of disposable income as more unequal than it actually is. This biased perception results from underestimating total income shares belonging to bottom quintiles and overestimating total income share belonging to the top income quintile. Whereas majority of Czechs prefer some level of income stratificat…
Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities
Vývoj vzdělanostních nerovností v účasti na politice v Česku a na Slovensku a jejich důsledky pro reprezentaci postojů
Development of Educational Inequalities in Political Participation in Czech Republic and Slovakia and their Implications for Representation of Attitudes. Citizen participation in the political process is a key tenet of democratic government. Using data from post-election surveys covering all post-communist elections and European Social Survey 2002-2014, this paper studies how political participation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia has been stratified based on educational attainment. Educational inequalitie…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research, Education
Občanství a politická participace v České republice
Stabilita demokracie nezáleží jen na fungujících institucích, ale také na občanech, kteří se v její prospěch nebojí veřejně angažovat. Demokracie tak není v ohrožení jen tehdy, když se hroutí její instituce, ale i tehdy, když se vytrácí její podpora mezi členy společnosti. Druhé často předchází to první. Bez občanů, kteří podporují principy demokracie a v souladu s nimi jednají, se demokratický režim vyprazdňuje. Proto se tato publikace v první části zaměřuje na …
Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes
Czech Republic: Political development and data for 2017
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
The Czech Republic
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Miloš Brunclík, Miroslav Novák a kolektiv: Internetové volby. Budoucnost, nebo slepá ulička demokracie?
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Analýza chybějících hodnot. Srovnání metod při zkoumání determinantů politické znalosti a příjmu
V dotazníkových šetřeních respondenti často odmítají odpovídat na některé otázky (např. osobní příjem). Vybraná místa datové matice tak neobsahují platné hodnoty. Tato monografie detailně představuje problém chybějících hodnot v datech. Čtenář se postupně seznámí s různými metodami řešení tohoto problému. Vlastní simulační studie pak na praktických příkladech detailně ilustrují výhody a nevýhody jednotlivých metod. Použití nevhodné metody přitom může …
Topics: Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data
