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Authors: Linek, Lukáš
Text analyses the effect of turnout on the party support of different parties in the Czech Republic. After introduction of the main theories and research strategies of partisan effects of turnout hypotheses concerning this issue are tested. The results show that higher turnout is...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš
This chapter describes the role of the political parties in the elections and in the system of political representation. First, it presents the features and the development of the electoral system for both chambers. Then it describes the development of the party system and focuse...
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Authors: Kunštát, Daniel
Book in broad historical, social and political context analyzes the main characteristics and the position of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech political system after 1989. It examines the nature and dynamics in time the anti-system identity, the historical d...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Jan Outlý, Gábor Tóka, Agnes Batory (eds.)
The publication analyses the 2004 European Parliament elections from different angles and contains 15 studies. The book is divided into four parts. The first one is devoted to the analysis of positions of voters and parties, the second one to electoral behaviour, mainly the elect...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Jan Outlý
The paper analyses the candidate selection procedure in political parties before the elections to the European Parliament. It focuses on the four main Czech political parties: ČSSD, KDU-ČSL, KSČM and ODS. Findings from the analysis of written documents are compared with the resul...
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Authors: Čermák, Daniel
This paper presents some findings about time-series evolution of trust in political institutions in the Czech Republic between 1997 and 2009. The analysis deals with two main issues: First, a comparison of time-series of trust in the Government of the Czech Republic, Chamber of D...
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Authors: Tomáš Kostelecký, Renáta Mikešová, Markéta Poláková, Daniel Čermák, Josef Bernard, Martin Šimon
The main goal of the book is to study spatial patterns of voting behaviour in parliamentary elections in Czechia between 1920 and 2006. The book seeks to analyse voting behaviour through studying political preferences expressed by the elections of political parties in the general...
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Authors: Kostelecký, T. R. Mikešová, M. Poláková, D. Čermák, J. Bernard, M.Šimon
Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky jsou většinou voličů považovány za nejdůležitější z voleb, protože se při nich rozhoduje o budoucím složení vlády. Bývá v nich proto také vyšší volební účast než v jiných volbách. Protože poskytují detailní informa...
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Authors: Brokl, Lubomír, Zdenka Mansfeldová
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Authors: Bradová, Eva, Tomáš Lebeda
In this chapter, the authors are identifying key variables, which influence time-of-voting decision and the susceptibility for campaign effects. Using Czech Election Study 2006 data the authors analyze the role of late deciders in the campaign. This study exercises the difference...
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Authors: Vráblíková, Kateřina
This paper examines the relationship between electoral systems and female political representation in post-communist states. West European research has suggested that more women are elected in proportional representation systems (PR) than in majoritarian ones, and points out PR...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš
The book analyses four main dimensions of attitudes towards political regime and its institutions and describes changes in the attitudes within the Czech society between 1996 and 2006. These attitudinal dimensions are regime legitimacy, institutional disaffection, individual disa...
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Authors: Seidlová, Adéla, Jan Červenka, Daniel Kunštát
The paper presents data related to the 2002 elections to the Chamber of Deputies from a research realized within the program of The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.
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Authors: Kunštát, Daniel
The following text outlines some aspects of people´s decision making process during elections in modern mass democracies. Particularly, the aspect of (in)competence of electorate or, as the case may be, the problem of rationality of the political audiance that creates the p...
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Authors: Brokl, Lubomír, zdenka Mansfeldová
Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die innenpolitische Situation der Tschechischen Republik nach Teilung der Föderation. Das Jahr 1993 war von der Suche nach nationaler Identität im neuen selbständigen Staat gekennzeichnet. Die Verhandlungen über die gegenseitigen...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš
The text analyses the turnout in the elections to the European Parliament in the Czech Republic using aggregate level data for districts and individual-level data from a post-election survey. Electoral turnout was increased by religious confession and living in rural areas and de...

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