Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5)
Changes in Czech Parliamentarianism and Partisan Politics after 1989

Changes in Czech Parliamentarianism and Partisan Politics after 1989

Vlastimil Havlík, Michal Kubát

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 621-624  

The Czech Democratic Regime after 2012: A Transition to Semi-Presidentialism?

Miloš Brunclík, Michal Kubát

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 625-646 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.5.274  

Until 2012 the Czech Republic was almost unambiguously classified as a parliamentary regime. However, in 2012, the previous scholarly consensus concerning the classification of the Czech Republic dissolved, and 'post-Duvergerian' scholars now regard the Czech regime as semi-presidential. The article works with the original Duvergerian definition into which it introduces the new concept of semi-presidentialism, which is based on presidential powers. The article applies this new concept to the Czech regime for the period since the first directly elected president, Miloš Zeman, took office. Enjoying a legitimacy advantage, Zeman broke with the constitutional...

Defence, Acquisition or Non-Competition? How Did the Form and Intensity of Czech Party Competition Change between 2006 and 2014?

Lukáš Linek, Roman Chytilek, Otto Eibl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 647-678 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.5.275  

This article seeks to examine changes in Czech party competition between 2006 and 2014. Drawing on Sani and Sartori's concept of party competition, it incorporates later findings on the nature of party competition to facilitate the concept's application to fluid party systems. It conceptualises party competition as multi-dimensional and according to the (a) salience the individual dimensions used in this analysis have for political parties and (b) the positions that the parties occupy on these dimensions. It distinguishes three types of relations in party competition - non-competitive, defensive and acquisitive competition - and using data from the...

Changes in the Czech Party System through the Lens of Political-Party Accounting

Vít Šimral

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 679-708 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.5.276  

The article describes the Czech party system and its development over time using data from the annual financial reports of political parties and seeks to contribute to the domestic debate on the transformation of Czech political parties since 1989. The article distinguishes three factors that caused political party budgets to change - the economy, regulation, and strategy - and proposes a simple theoretical model with which to interpret and understand data obtained from the accounting books of political parties. It also presents a new three-dimensional typology of political parties based on the size of a party budget and the structure of party revenue...

Empty Promises? Election Promise Fulfilment among Coalition Parties in the Czech Republic between 2006 and 2015

Petra Svačinová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 709-736 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.5.277  

Party mandate theory claims that parties form government coalitions so that they can fulfil their election promises. This article looks at the party mandate model as applied to the arena of post-communist Europe and at the obstacles that can prevent a party from fulfilling its mandate (the presence of a new type of party, hyperaccountability, short-lived governments). The article describes the findings from a study examining the degree to which socio-economic legislative promises were fulfilled by the second government of Mirek Topolánek, the first government of Petr Nečas, and the (recent) government of Bohuslav Sobotka after a year and a half for...

K 70. narozeninám Ilji Šrubaře

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 751-753  

Sto let od narození zakladatele české demoskopie Čeňka Adamce (19. 11. 1916 - 12. 10. 1997)

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 754-757  

Ke stému výročí narození Čeňka Adamce, spoluzakladatele české demoskopie

Josef Bečvář

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 758-760  

Ivo Možný (31. 8. 1932 - 10. 9. 2016)

Petr Mareš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 737-740  

Zemřel Ivo Možný

Jaroslav Střítecký

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 741-743  

Sociologie jako program: K neakademickému myšlení Ivo Možného

Miloš Havelka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 744-748  

Vzpomínky na Iva

Martin Potůček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 749-750  

Daniel Kunštát a kol. 25 let české demokracie očima veřejnosti

Markéta Blažejovská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 761-764  

Miloš Brunclík, Miroslav Novák a kolektiv: Internetové volby. Budoucnost, nebo slepá ulička demokracie?

Ivan Petrúšek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 765-768  

Vladimír Krivý (ed.): Ako sa mení slovenská spoločnosť

Lada Železná

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 769-771  

Tereza Mašková, Vojtěch Ripka: Železná opona v Československu. Usmrcení na československých státních hranicích v letech 1948-1989

Lucie Háková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 772-775  

Michael Wögerbauer, Pavel Píša, Petr Šámal, Pavel Janáček a kol.: V obecném zájmu. Cenzura a sociální regulace literatury v moderní české kultuře 1749-2014, I.-II.

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 776-777  

Konrad Paul Liessmann: Hodina duchů: praxe nevzdělanosti: polemický spis

Hana Märzová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(5): 778