Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1)
The Players in Czech Politics: Citizens and Their Political Organisations

The Players in Czech Politics: Citizens and Their Political Organisations

Ondřej Císař, Lukáš Linek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 5-8  

Why Did Voter Turnout in the Czech General Elections Change between 1996 and 2010?

Lukáš Linek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 9-32 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.1.02  

The aim of this study is to explain why turnout in Czech general elections exhibited considerable variation between 1996 and 2010. Using valence theory this article explores the differential turnout in terms of the expected benefits of voting for a party on the basis of valence and policy considerations. This individual-level analysis of electoral participation employs four post-election surveys and uses an alternative operationalisation of the expected benefits of voting, which makes it possible to conduct cross-national and cross-time comparisons. The results presented in the article demonstrate that change in voter turnout across general elections...

The Re-stratification of Czech Politics: Class Voting in the Czech Republic between 1992 and 2010

Michael L. Smith, Petr Matějů

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 33-60 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.1.03  

This article examines the development of class voting in the Czech Republic, 1992- 2010. While many Western countries have been experiencing declining or stable associations between class and electoral choice, we hypothesize that the trend in class voting should be quite different in the Czech Republic, and by extension, in other post-communist countries. We theorize that if a country is undergoing a process of re-stratification - the process in which class-based cleavages and identities regain significance in a new market economy after a long period of their de-stratification by communist egalitarian policies - such a country should also experience...

Parties in the Policy Space: The Case of the Czech Republic

Roman Chytilek, Otto Eibl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 61-88 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.1.04  

This article is based on a top-down approach to investigating political interactions between parties and voters and introduces the policy-space perspective into this approach. Its basic premise is as follows: through the application of categories of the proximity/distance of political actors, conflicts latently or manifestly present in a party system can be represented in the policy space. Mapping the policy space traces these relationships and helps to answer the question: What are the positions of political parties on the selected political topics? After providing an overview of existing scholarship on policy-space perspective in Czech politics,...

The Civic Democratic Party and the Ascendancy of the Professional Party Organisation in Czech Democracy in the 1990s

Magdaléna Hadjiisky

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 89-114 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.1.05  

This article focuses on the emergence of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). It attempts to trace the party's origins in several possible, coinciding factors that in the Czech Republic led not just to the establishment of ODS, but also to the institutionalisation of professional party organisation as such. On the one hand, the article points to the significance of interactions between the various groups within Civic Forum (OF), where the group around Václav Klaus asserted the 'standard model' of party competition. On the other hand, it questions the simplifying theory of ODS as a party of 'economists' and on the contrary shows that its success depended...

Dynamics of New Party Formation in the Czech Republic 1996-2010: Looking for the Origins of a Political Earthquake

Seán Hanley

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 115-136 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.1.06  

The stable and closed nature of the party system and the failure of most new political parties were among the most salient features of Czech democracy over the past two decades. The results of the 2010 parliamentary elections seemed to mark a break with this pattern: support for two main parties slumped to historically low levels and two new parties, TOP 09 and Public Affairs (Věci veřejné), entered parliament. This article seeks to put the 'political earthquake' of 2010 into perspective by mapping the development of new parties in the Czech Republic over the past two decades and relating them to comparative literature and typologies of new party emergence....

Old, New, Radical: Political Activism in the Czech Republic through the Prism of Social Movement Theory

Ondřej Císař, Jiří Navrátil, Kateřina Vráblíková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 137-168 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.1.07  

The goal of this text is to offer a systematic analysis of political activism in the Czech Republic. The article first differentiates between and theoretically defines three types of political activism. These are old, new, and radical types of activism. The first is primarily represented by trade unions, the second by organisations with a post-materialistic orientation, and the third by political groups positioned on the far right and left. To analyse them, the text utilises selected tools of social movement theory. Drawing on this theory, the article shows the differences between the three activist types in the following dimensions: action repertoire,...

Marek Skovajsa et al.: Občanský sektor: Organizovaná občanská společnost v České republice

Vladimír Hyánek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 169-170  

Marta Kolářová: Protest proti globalizaci. Gender a feministická kritika

Jiří Navrátil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 171-174  

Maxmilián Strmiska, Roman Chytilek, Jakub Šedo, Otto Eibl: Volební komplexy zemí V4. Studie k pojetí víceúrovňového prostoru

Lukáš Linek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 175-176  

Miroslav Nožina, Filip Kraus: Kriminální sítě ve vietnamské diaspoře: Případ České republiky

Petr Kupka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 177-179  

Jakub Rákosník: Sovětizace sociálního státu: lidově demokratický režim a sociální práva občanů v Československu 1945-1960

Vojtěch Ripka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 180-183  

Miroslav Vaněk: Byl to jenom rock'n'roll? Hudební alternativa v komunistickém Československu 1956-1989

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 184-186  

Jindřich Krejčí: Kvalita sociálněvědních výběrových šetření v České republice

Petra Anýžová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 187-189  

Ema Hrešanová: Kultury dvou porodnic: Etnografická studie

Lucie Jarkovská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 190-194  

Sekce sociologie náboženství a její semináře v roce 2010

Jan Váně

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 195-196  

Konference Non-Human in Anthropology

Lucie Galčanová, Barbora Vacková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 197-199  

Sociální inkluze Romů náboženskou cestou

Dušan Lužný

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(1): 200