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The central empirical puzzle addressed in this book is why are Czech citizens’ attitudes towards key facets of democracy so similar under socialist democracy in 1968 and liberal democracy in 2008? Examining unique survey datasets from the late 1960s and 2008 this book reveals that Czech and Slovak citizens’ political attitudes can justifiably be characterised in terms of stability.
Scholars have long argued that political participation is determined by institutional context.Within the voter turnout literature the impact of various institutional structures has beendemonstrated in numerous studies.
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 normative). This theoretical framework is used to explain the level and decline in electoral participation.
This book explains why Czech voters choose specific parties. The focus is on the long-term determinants of electoral behaviour (cleavages, left-right orientation, and party identification) and on four parties with long-term representation in the Czech parliament: ČSSD, KDU-ČSL, KSČM and ODS. Moreover, the authors focused on changes in the determinants of electoral stability over time.
Focusing on social movement organizations (SMOs) in the Czech Republic, this articleexplores the level of transnational activism of these actors. Although knowledge exists on domestic interest groups’ choice of EU venues for lobbying, the influence of EU funding onprotest and public campaigning by actors such as SMOs remains under-studied. We showwhat the level of transnationalization of SMOs is, what types of transnational strategies SMOsemploy, and what explains these choices.
The encyclopaedia entry reviews the available literature on public opinion and social movements. It discusses how social movements affect public opinion relying on processes of consensus mobilization and framing and how supportive public opinion interacts with the movement activities in achieving their political goals.
Der Band umfasst systematische Analysen der Verbändelandschaften und der Interessengruppen in 27 europäischen Ländern sowie der Europäischen Union.
The chapter compares the development in four Central European parliaments in the second decade after the fall of communism. At the end of the first decade, the four parliaments could be considered as rather stabilised, functional, independent and internally organised institutions. Attention is paid particularly to the changing institutional context and pressure of ‘Europeanisation’, the changing party strengths, and the functional and political consequences of these changes.
This book deals with empirical research using political survey data and is primarily intended for anyone exploring politics in the Czech Republic using quantitative data. Many of the themes addressed in this study have application to the use of quantitative political data in other national contexts and across the social sciences more generally. This book is divided into three parts: theory, data and analysis.
This chapter provides an inventory and evaluation of the large number of survey datasets dealing with political and public policy topics that have been fielded in the Czech Republic since 1990. The text contains an evaluation of survey based research for elections to the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate and sub-national elections for regional and local levels of government. A short commentary on the use of Exit-polls and panel surveys is also provided.
The text provides an overview of international research projects with Czech and partially Slovak participation which focused on political issues. A description of Eurobarometer (EB), the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES), European Election Study (EES) and the Civic Education Study (CIVED) research programmes is provided. A part of the chapter is also devoted to political science data in international comparative surveys as ISSP, EVS, ESS and the World Values Survey (WVS).
The report on Czech Republic is a part of study supported by Bertelsmann Stiftung – Sustainable Governance Indicators. The whole report offers a comparative assessment of 31 OECD countries. The concepts of sustainability and governance form the conceptual underpinnings of the SGI’s two pillars, the Status Index and Management Index.
The chapter deals with the concept and development of European social dialogue, with the preparedness of Czech social partners for this dialogue and with thein first experiences
This paper compares the development in four Central European parliaments in the second decade after the fall of communism. At the end of the first decade, the four parliaments could be considered stabilised, functional, independent and internally organised institutions. Attention is paid particularly to the changing institutional context and pressure of ‘Europeanisation’, the changing party strengths, and the functional and political consequences of these changes.
The goal of this text is to offer a systematic analysis of political activism
in the Czech Republic. The article fi rst differentiates between and theoretically
defi nes three types of political activism. These are old, new, and radical
types of activism. The fi rst is primarily represented by trade unions, the
second by organisations with a post-materialistic orientation, and the third by
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The chapter attempts to clarify the concept of collective identity and its intrinsic relationship to democracy. Further on, there arediscussed possible configurations of democracy in the European Union that give expression to different national, supra-national, or post-national identitarian projects (the so-called three RECON models).
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