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Proměny české politické scény - strany a voliči
This article maps out the shifts in votes to the Parliament and the developing stability of voting behaviour in relation to the developing system of political parties. It confirmed suppositions that the Czech political scene is in a process of development which will lead to a change in the party system. It is nevertheless clear that the political scene here is moving closer to that common in western democracies. Voting preferences in the Czech Republic are becoming more stable. The number of people who change …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Parties in the Parliament. Why, When and How do Parties Act in Unity? Parliamentary Party Groups in the Chamber of Deputies in the years 1998–2002
The main objective of the work is to answer the question of how Czech MPs and PPGs makedecisions. Thus main concerns of the authors are issues of PPG unity, the adopted mechanismsof internal control and negotiation and, primarily, the factors that influence, structureand restrict the behaviour of individual MPs and PPGs. The work focuses on the 3rd electoralterm of the Chamber of Deputies (1998–2002) in some cases a comparison with previousterms is provided.In the first chapter the authors briefly outline th…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Krystalizace politických postojů, politického spektra a role hodnot ve volebním rozhodování
The basic structural cleavages of post-communist society should, according to Kitschelt /1992/ be aligned along two separate axes: the left-right awis and that of libertarianism-authoritarianism. The party systems in central and Eastern Europe were expected to structurate themselves along axes ranging from authoritarians and opponents of the market at one end and liberals and supporters of the market at the other.Where economic development was already advanced, as in the Czech Republic, many political parties …
Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
České politické strany a jejich členové. K postupné proměně charakteru členství
Czech political parties have built their organisations since the beginning of the 1990s in an environment that was hostile to organised partisanship. They face a lack of interest among citizens in joining political parties, which can be seen in the continually falling number of members in the case of KDU-ČSL and KSČM, and in the case of ČSSD and ODS in the stagnation of the number of members since their inception. Political parties have adapted their organisational strategies to these trends and now they st…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Stranická identifikace v České republice
This study introduces basic models of voting behaviour - sociological, social-psychological and economic ones. It describes in more details the findings and starting points of thesocial-psychological model (or the model of party idetification). The study recapitulates the hitherto findigs related to the voting vehaviour in the Czech Republic in thenineties. As well as the reasons leading to the application of the party identification model to the analyses of voting behaviour. The analysis of voting behaviouris…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Účast při volbách do Evropského parlamentu v roce 2004 v České republice
Text analyses turnout in European Parliament elections in the Czech Republic using individual-level data from post-election survey. It searches into the four main sources of electoral turnout in European parliament elections: socio-demographic characteristics, political attitudes, attitudes towards the EU integration and the impact of electoral campaign and media. All these sources prove to have an impact on turnout.…
Topics: European Union, Media, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Linie štěpení v České republice a v Klatovech. Komparace národní úrovně s příkladem konkrétní lokality
Work focuses on the testing and relevance of three cross-cutting cleavages among voters on the national and the local level. The tested lines include economic populism - market liberalism, libertarianism - authoritarianism, and religion and morality - secularity and tolerance. The data used for the analyses on the national level stem from international research and have been acquired through the use of ' scales', the data used for the analyses on the local level come from specific local research and were acqui…
Topics: Religion and religiosity, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research
A választási részvétel és a szavaoi dilemma: egy új megközelítés
The text utilizes voter’s dilemma approach (VDA) to electoral participation in the analysis of turnout in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. This text asks what the contribution of VDA to an individual-level explanation of participation in the European and national parliamentary elections might be, over and above the impact of explanatory variables contained in socio-demographic, political, campaign involvement and European attitude blocks. …
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Levice - pravice v České republice v letech 1996 - 2000
Paper tests the existence and development of the leftright and the libertarianismauthoritarianism cleavages in the voter space in the CR. Analyses are based on H. Kitschelts hypotheses. Items from British Social Attitude Survey, etc. have been used to test the cleavages. Analyses has revealed the existence of strong leftright line and weak libertarianauthoritarian line, their development (slight weakening of the leftright cleavage and a slight strengthening of the libertarianauthoritarian line) and changes in …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
The European Union and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
The European Union and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe examines the influence of the EU on the party politics of the eight post-communist countries that joined the Union in 2004, as well as that of Bulgaria and Romania, from the 1990s and through the first 18 months of EU membership. For much of the decade after the end of communist rule, popular support for EU membership was generally strong, if abstract, in nature and EU influence did not provide the basis for much political conflict or substant…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
The Impact of the EU on the Czech Party System
The text focuses on the impact of European integration on Czech party system. European integration has undoubtedly influenced Czech political parties, but the influence has neither been destabilizing nor instrumental in the formation of new parties. European issues, both in terms of support for joining the EU and in relation to attitudes about the desired speed of European integration, have mapped on to the dominant left-right cleavage in Czech politics. This covariance works at the mass level, but it does not…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Sociální třída a její vliv na volební chování
Class interests play an important role in voting behaviour in the Czech Republic. The highest electoral turnout has been found among high professionals, the lowest among semi-skilled and un-skilled workers. Right-wing ODS is voted most often by middle and upper middle class (independents, higher professionals), left wing ČSSD and KSČM working and lower class (skilled, semi-skilled, and un-skilled workers). However, social class does not explain voting behaviour completely. Analyses showed effect of status in…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Elections and Electoral Research, Standard of Living
What Can Ecological Inference Tell Us about the Second-Order-Elections-Thesis in the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
The Second-Order Election Thesis (SOET) is one of a family of multi-level electoral behaviour theories that was specifically developed to explain changes in voting behaviour in general and European elections. Our analyses indicate that the patterns of voting behaviour predicted by the SOET are mediated by a number of national and regional factors.…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Types of Non-electoral Political Participation in Europe
The authors describe what forms of political participation, outside the electoral process, the populations of twenty-one European countries tend to employ and to what degree. They identify three types of non-electoral political participation: active-conventional, active-demonstrational, and passive participation. Overall non-electoral political participation is considerably lower in the post-communist and Mediterranean countries than in the Western European and Scandinavian countries.…
Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes
Czech Republic: Is It Possible To Buy Political Stability?
This key volume explores how party and campaign finance in post-communist countries have influenced the development of the party system. Based on an analysis of nine case studies, the work examines how the implementation of public finance affects the pattern of party competition and the role of money in elections. One of the lessons from the post-communist experience is that, no matter how well-designed, public finance systems are subject to constant revision as parties, politicians and business elites exploit…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Česká národní identita na přelomu tisíciletí
Searching for the Czech national identity or its infirmity repeats in the Czech history. In 1995 and 2003, ISSP surveys National Identity I and National Identity II were fielded in the Czech Republic. Based on this surveys the chapter shows changes of the four elements of the Czech national identity – image of the nation, territorial identity, national pride, and the form of the love for the nation. The results of the analyses show whether Czechs are cultural or state nation, how strong is their local, regio…
Topics: Identity, Transformation
The Parliament of the Czech Republic, 1993–2004
The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as "parliaments in adolescence".This book identifies six parliaments which exemplify the wide range of developments in the new post-communist political systems, from the stable consolidated democracies to the less stable and more authoritarian states, within which their respective parliaments function.Fin…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation
Od rovnostářství k zásluhovosti? Česká republika mezi dvěma ideologiemi distributivní spravedlnosti
The principle objective of the paper is to uncover the interplay between egalitarian and inegalitarian norms and beliefs about distributive justice during the postcommunist transformation in the Czech Republic. Two theoretical perspectives, namely the „split-consciousness“ theory (Kluegel and Smith) and the theory of dominant and challenging norms of distributive justice (Della Fave), are applied in comparative analysis of egalitarian and inegalitarian inclinations in the Czech&nbs…
Topics: Social Inequalities, Transformation
Oděv a móda jako sociální fenomény
Clothing is a social phenomenon concentrating a wide range of social symbols and meanings. Which are not rigid, but changeable. They are modified and reproduced due to changes in social space. In my work, I seek to recover some of the most important and most interesting modifications of this phenomenon seen against the background of traditional, modern and post-modern societies with the help of both classical and the most influential theories up to date, i. e. those of Paul Willis and Henning Bech in which man…
Topics: Lifestyle
Subjective Mobility after 1989
The article analyses two types of subjective mobility between 1988 and 1993. It asks how people evaluate the changes in their social status and economic situation and seeks to identify the links with certain objective social characteristics (which fix the position of an individual in the stratification system.) It considers improvements, stability and decline in the social position in six countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and, primarily, the Czech Republic. It concludes…
Topics: Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Transformation, Elections and Electoral Research
Czech Political Parties and their Voters
This article deals primarily with voting patterns during elections to the Chamber of Representatives. The new trends in voting patterns [Matějů and Vlachová 1997] that emerged during the Senate elections are not considered in the article. Information on voting patterns during the parliamentary elections are supplemented by information gained from surveys carried out in autumn 1996. The article maps out the shifts in votes between the 1992 and 1996 elections and the developing s…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Policy, Elections and Electoral Research
Krystalizace politických postojů a politického spektra v České republice
The basic structural cleavages of post-communist society should, according to Kitschelt [1992], be aligned along two separate axes: the left-right axis and that of libertarianism-authoritarianism. The party systems in central and eastern Europe were expected to structure themselves along axes ranging from authoritarians and opponents of the market at one end and liberals and supporters of the market at the other. The distribution of parties along these axes would be dependent on the level of ind…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Policy
Role politicky relevantních hodnot ve volebním rozhodování v České republice
Voting behaviour is generally not so much a matter of choosing one party out of a list of all parties on a ballot paper, but rather a choice between a much smaller number of acceptable parties. Typical voting behaviour may be supposed to be a choice between two parties. It is not a matter of a single important or dominant political attitude or value, but rather a complex process involving many different factors, some of which reinforce each other, while others are in contrast or even c…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
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