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Tschechische Republik
The chapter on interest organizations and the system of interest representation in the Czech Republic is part of a publication on interest representation systems and organizations in the 27 EU countries. It examines the historical development, legal framework, structure of the interest representation system, and their relationship to key political institutions.…
Dynamika vztahů mezi vládou a parlamentem během pandemie: srovnání České a Slovenské republiky
The COVID-19 pandemic was both an opportunity and a challenge for the executive and legislative branches. The quality of democracy in both countries significantly affected their ability to deal effectively with the crisis. The study analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the relationship between the government and parliament in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The functioning of the executive and parliament, especially the opposition, during the pandemic is demonstrated through the example of declaring …
Czech Republic: Declining Bipolarity and New Patterns of Conflict
The chapter is part of a publication released as part of a comparative politics series that examines coalition governments and coalition governance in ten countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The book provides a study of the entire life cycle of government coalitions in a region that has undergone a massive political transformation, yet the issues of coalition formation and coalition governance have not yet been studied there. The chapter provides information and analysis of the life cycle of coalitions in…
Topics: Elites, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation, Elections and Electoral Research
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2022. Czechia Report.
The COVID-19 crisis marks a watershed that will have a lasting impact on the socioeconomic and political development of countries everywhere for years to come.The study based on OECD and other sources data, examines the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and provides key insights into states’ resilience to crisis in democracy, policy performance and governance capacities in the Czech Republic. The study is part of a cross-national comparative survey designed to identify and foster successes in effectiv…
Comparing Citizen Attitudes towards Security and Liberty in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
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 where the government suspects a terrorist attack or security threats in general. The authors focus on the Czech Republic and Slovakia, two countries that do not have much experience with a severe threat to security, so security is more about pre-emptive measures and general consideration. Dat…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Sociální aspekty proměny pracovního života
Working life in Europe and the developed world in general is changing at an ever-increasing pace. Work is being redefined by globalisation, the use of new information and technologies, and artificial intelligence. It is crucial for us to understand and adapt to these changes. Forms of employment and relations between employers and employees are changing, and workers‘ rights are being individualised and, in some cases, restricted. The paper discusses the consequences and limits of these developments, stressin…
Dopady pandemie na poskytovatele veřejných kulturních služeb.
Cílem článku je ukázat na základě výsledků výzkumu ve dvou krajích Česka, jaké byly dopady koronavirové krize na veřejné kulturní služby a jak se s jejími důsledky poskytovatelé veřejných kulturních služeb vyrovnávali. Téměř tři čtvrtiny dotázaných subjektů si během koronavirové krize nějakou měrou finančně pohoršili a snažili se situaci řešit.
The aim of this article is to use research findings from two regions in the Czech Republic to illustrate the impact of the C…
Topics: Culture, Entrepreneurship
Involved Fathers and Intensive Parenting in Czechia: Norms and Fathers’ Contextualised Practices
Intensive parenting norms that emphasise high parental investment to optimise child development are increasingly prevalent in advanced economies. Although motherhood has been widely studied, fatherhood remains underexplored, especially in contexts like Czechia, where support for shared childcare between parents is limited. Using data from the Czech ISSP 2022 and qualitative interviews with Czech middle‐class fathers and mothers (2022–2024), this study examines how intensive parenting norms shape the views …
Sympathy for the strong leader in Europe
The rule of a strong leader above the law was found acceptable to a certain extent among 52 per cent of ESS Round 10 respondents from 30 European countries. Literature suggests that support for a strong leader is driven by individual and political factors, and individual and societal threats. The effect of individual factors and individual threats on willingness to submit to a strong leader supports the plausibility of the radicalising thesis. Adherence to strong leaders is affected by authoritarian upbringing…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Discriminated group identity and satisfaction with democracy in Europe
Although equality and nondiscrimination constitute the main principles of liberal democracy, democracies produce a diversity of social identities that are sensitive to discrimination and simultaneously challenge their legitimacy. This study examines the relationship between membership in groups discriminated against and satisfaction with the way democracy works (SWD). An analysis of the ESS Round 5–9 data from 18 countries has shown that the percentage of individuals identified with discriminated groups has …
Topics: Identity, Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Sociological Data
Cultural policies of populist governments in central and Eastern Europe: a comparative review
The recent rise of populist and illiberal actors in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the concomitant democratic backsliding has generated notable scholarly interest; however, the implications of populism for cultural policy remain understudied. Since culture defines popular tastes and shapes interpretations of national identity and history, we adopt a comparative perspective to evaluate what impact these actors had on cultural policies between 2010 and 2023, using a combination of qualitative analysis of d…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Policy
Disorganised Collective Citizens’ Interest, Social Transformations and Technopopulism
New ways of doing politics, embodied in the appeal to populism, the appeal to technocracy, or both combined, that is, ‘technopopulism’, are revealing symptoms of crisis in citizens’ representation in democratic societies in the European Union. This type of doing politics indicates ruptures in the organised citizens’ interest, which are leading to the rise of new parties and party leaders promising to solve ‘the people’s’ problem in general, that is, populism, and of unelected technocrats that off…
Beyond the second-order national elections model: Incumbency effects in regional elections in the Czech Republic
Literature provides four basic theories to explain regional election results and how they differ from national patterns: authority of regional governments, ethnic or linguistic cleavages, congruence of national and regional electoral systems, and second-order election effects. The second-order national election theory explains why regional elections exhibit lower turnout levels, why government parties lose voter support, and why opposition, minor, and new parties gain support. While second-order election theor…
Economic and Pandemic Performance Voting in the 2021 Czech National Election
The literature on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected vote choice provides evidence of both ‘rally-’round-the-flag’ effects and the influence of perceived government pandemic performance. However, this evidence concerns short-term effects. Much less is known about how COVID-19-related economic changes and government measures in response to the pandemic have affected vote choice over a longer period. Using a post-election survey from the Czech Republic fielded in October 2021, we examine the effect of …
Alkohol a účty panství České země do husitské revoluce
Tento příspěvek se zaměřuje na vztah české a moravské šlechty k alkoholu podle finančních pramenů do počátku husitské revoluce. Větší pozornost je věnována výrobě alkoholu (zejména piva, méně vína) na šlechtických panstvích. Pro vrcholný středověk se zdá, že šlechtické panství nebylo soběstačné ve výrobě alkoholických nápojů. Situace v raném novověku, kdy efektivní zemědělství vytváří přebytky pro trh, a šlechta si vynucuje své poddané ke konzumaci piva…
Czech political candidate and donation datasets
This paper introduces a new Czech Political Candidate Dataset (CPCD), which compiles comprehensive data on all candidates who have run in any municipal, regional, national, and/or European Parliament election in the Czech Republic since 1993. For each candidate, the CPCD includes their first name, last name, age, gender, place of residence, university degree, party membership, party affiliation, ballot position, and election results for candidates and for parties. We match candidates over various elections by …
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Interaction Between Government and Parliamentary Opposition in the Czech Republic
The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on parliamentary activities have recently become a trending topic. The pandemic presented both challenges and opportunities for governments and parliaments. During times of crisis, government-parliament and government-opposition relations can result in contrasting expectations and outcomes with regard to democratic norms. While consensus on crisis measures between governments and opposition parties can increase public trust and legitimacy, criticism by the opposition is es…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Rally and Rage: The Gap between Specific and Pandemic-Specific Support for Governments in Europe.
In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, the public generally expressed high pandemic-specific support for their governments. Analysis based on ESS Round 10 COVID-19 module data from 20 countries shows, however, that there was a gap between pandemic-specific and specific support for governments in European states. A positive gap in favor of pandemic-specific support for governments was found among 52.7% of the respondents, while a negative trend was observed among 24.0% of the respondents. Younger people, those self…
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…
Regularity and Instability. Coalition Governments in Czechia 2008-2022.
The chapter is part of the study of coalitions and coalition governance in Central and Eastern European democracies up to date, with an analytical focus framed by difficult economic and social periods, such as the end of the economic crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic.Between 2008 and 2021, Czechia held four parliamentary elections but had nine governments. With one exception (Babiš I), all governments were different types of coalitions, and only two served a full term. The period under study was plagued by …
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Interaction Between Government and Parliamentary Opposition in the Czech Republic.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on parliamentary activities have recently become a trending topic. The pandemic presented both challenges and opportunities for governments and parliaments. During times of crisis, government-parliament and government-opposition relations can result in contrasting expectations and outcomes with regard to democratic norms. While consensus on crisis measures between governments and opposition parties can increase public trust and legitimacy, criticism by the opposition is es…
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