The project examines voting behaviour in elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The main objective is to analyse patterns of voting behaviour, the causes and consequences of the varying and generally very low voter participation, and the impact of low participation on the party system and party representation. The research will rely on aggregated data containing the personal characteristics of candidates, social, demographic, and economic attributes of electoral districts as well as contextual political variables. The analysis of the 1996, 2006, and 2008 elections will also draw on data from sample surveys that contain information on voters’ actual voting behaviour. The research will utilize advanced statistical techniques to carry out multivariate analyses of the effects of individual- and context-level variables as well as their interactions on the likelihood of a candidate’s electoral success.
Project publications (total 9, displaying 1 - 9)
The text summarizes the reasons behind voter turnout and vote choice in 2006 Chamber of Deputies election. It illustrates similarity of abstainers and undecided voters whose role in elections increases. It also compares different models of vote choice and shows that the strongest explanation is provided by party identification, issue voting and leadership effects. The effect of class on voting is negligible.
The book examines elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic during all its previous existence. The main objective is to analyze the impact of majority electoral system and specifics of the candidates´ support in elections. This also book focuses on electoral success and representation of individual parties. Then we look at long-term record low turnout.
The book examines elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic during all its previous existence. The main objective is to analyze the impact of majority electoral system and specifics of the candidates´ support in elections. This also book focuses on electoral success and representation of individual parties. Then we look at long-term record low turnout.
This chapter examines the relation between the effect of the electoral system on the representation of the parties and candidates and the electoral behaviour of the voters in elections to the House of Deputies of the Czech Parliament, especially in the latest elections in 2006. In describes impact of electoral reform. With the assistance of dates from election statistics and data from the survey: Czech Election Study 2006, it analyzes the consequences of main variables of the new system.
The book examines elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic during all its previous existence. The main objective is to analyze the impact of majority electoral system and specifics of the candidates´ support in elections. This also book focuses on electoral success and representation of individual parties. Then we look at long-term record low turnout.
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 Deputies and Senate, and second, a set of multivariate analysis.
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.
The first Senate elections raised the question of the purpose of electing a representative body, whose existence have not been clearly explained or defended by its creators. The most common reason voters had for not participating in the 1996 Senate elections was their disagreement with the very its existence. These elections were the first experience with the two-round majority system.
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 differences between long time decided voters and late deciding voters from the perspective of their socio-demographic characteristics, attitudes and party choice as well.
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