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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš
The presented study deals with the political consequences of the suburbanization process in the four largest metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic after 1989. The aggregate socio-economic data on the level of municipalities are used first for the creation of typology of suburb...
Publikace
Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Pat Lyons
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 b...
Publikace
Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Petra Rakušanová
The text aims to explain the voting unity in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic building upon data from the years 1998ů2002. The article presents basic institutional rules which should lead to the unity of political parties in the Czech Parliament and...
Publikace
Authors: Kennedy, Fiachra, Pat Lyons, Peter Fitzgerald
In this article we examine the opinion structure of Irish Labour party members and supporters. Our purpose is to test May's law of curvilinear disparity by dividing party members into two groups as outlined by Kitschelt. By focusing on ideological differences within political...
Publikace
Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Pat Lyons
National rather than regional party systems are the norm in most democratic states.The link between party system nationalization and the individual voter has not been examined in the same detail. Here this link is explored using an ecological inference analysis of vote switching....
Publikace
Authors: Vlachová, Klára
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 patt...
Oddělení
The Sociological Library is a modern specialised library, which is intended to serve the needs of researchers, students, and the wider academic community. Library collection contains just about 25 thousand volumes. All items are available for use in the library study hall and abo...
Head of department: Mgr. Nela Hesová
Akce
14.10.2013
Publikum
An international seminar connected with the introduction of the Institute for Public Affairs' (IVO) publication Alternative Politics? The Rise of New Parties in Central Europe, edited by Grigorij Mesežnikov, Oľga Gyárfášová and Zora Bútorová.
Akce
14.10.2013
Publikum
With the support of the programme 'Europe for Citizens' of the European Union.
Publikace
Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Zdenka Mansfeldová
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...
Publikace
Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Robert van der Veen
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 par...
Publikace
Authors: Lukáš, Linek, Pat Lyons
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...
Oddělení
The Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) conducts regular omnibus surveys focusing on observing the developments and changes in public opinion. These public opinion surveys regularly include questions on political, economic, and other social topics. The department also addresses...
Head of department: PhDr. Martin Buchtík
Publikace
Authors: Krejčí, Jindřich (ed.)
Collection of scientific based studies provides an overview of Czech election survey research and comments the issues relating to the quality and the use of results, e.g. importance for representative democracy, impact of the publication of results, relationship between research...
Oddělení
The department focuses on the systematic study of the basic processes in the democratic political system of the CzechRepublic and some of its bodies. The main subjects of research are the emergence and stabilisation of a system of parties, deputies and senators in the Parliament...
Head of department: PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.
Publikace
Authors: Kunštát, Daniel
Eighteen scholars analysed elections into the Chamber of Deputies from different points of view. The first part of the publication is dedicated to the events that preceded the elections (primary elections within the parties, election campaign, and programmes of the parties). In t...
Publikace
Authors: Linek, Lukáš
The monograph summarizes main explanations of electoral participation and its decline. It presents a systematic own theory of electoral participation which stresses the importance of mobilization by external actors and individual motivations (instrumentál, expressive and normativ...

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