Civic Democratic Party: the development of its political ideology
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1991-2004 (Adéla Gjuričová, Czech Science Foundation, 2005-2007)
The Civic Democratic Party (ODS) was founded in 1991 with reference to its British and American conservative sources, but later developing its ideology in the context of key Czech political discussions and the global shifts of the 1990s and early 2000s. This research concentrates in particular on the aspects of the transition discourse, the purpose and form of political activity, concepts of “otherness”, attitudes to European integration, and the formal aspects of political rhetoric. The methods and theoretical frameworks used by historical research and the other social sciences will be employed to analyse and interpret the party’s programmes, the texts prepared by the party’s leading personalities, and oral history interviews. The final depiction of the ODS’s ideological dynamics will also attempt to position it in 20th century Czech political thinking and to formulate new criteria of ideological classification for European politics at the turn of the millennium.
The Civic Democratic Party (ODS) was founded in 1991 with reference to its British and American conservative sources, but later developing its ideology in the context of key Czech political discussions and the global shifts of the 1990s and early 2000s. This research concentrates in particular on the aspects of the transition discourse, the purpose and form of political activity, concepts of “otherness”, attitudes to European integration, and the formal aspects of political rhetoric. The methods and theoretical frameworks used by historical research and the other social sciences will be employed to analyse and interpret the party’s programmes, the texts prepared by the party’s leading personalities, and oral history interviews. The final depiction of the ODS’s ideological dynamics will also attempt to position it in 20th century Czech political thinking and to formulate new criteria of ideological classification for European politics at the turn of the millennium.
