scholarly journals Post-election Survey Data: Local Democracy and the 2018 Local Elections in the Czech Republic

Data in Brief ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107039
Author(s):  
Pavel Šaradín ◽  
Tomáš Lebeda ◽  
Jakub Lysek ◽  
Michal Soukop ◽  
Daniela Ostrá ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
The Czech Republic

Independent Candidates in the Local Elections of 2014 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Analysis of Determinants of Their Successfulness

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 853-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Maškarinec ◽  
Daniel Klimovský
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Adequate Explanation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Better Than

The goal of this article is to test various factors which can potentially explain differences in independents’ representation at the local level in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. As the size of a municipality was the almost single factor, whose influence was in both countries at the same direction, together with the generally rather low levels of explained variability, we suggest that for a more adequate explanation of the independents’ successfulness, we need to look for other indicators that could far better than the usual socio-demographic variables characterize the form of political competition in the specific municipalities, particularly in those which are associated with a specific political culture or other indicators of similar type, which can be difficult to abstract from aggregate data and their use would require the implementation of specific research on the local level.

scholarly journals Municipalities without elected councils. Causes of insufficient fulfilment of candidate lists in some municipalities in local elections in 2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-82
Author(s):  
Petr Dvořák ◽  
Stanislav Balík
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Municipal Elections

Abstract By means of a qualitative analysis of the sixteen municipalities in the Czech Republic in which additional elections were held in 2019, five variables were identified which may explain why additional elections occurred. For analysis, we used data from the Czech Statistical Office (municipal elections 1994 to 2019), the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic and information on individual municipalities from media analysis. We have identified the following possible variables which may affect whether additional elections are held: end of elites, non -stand as a candidate again, the end of municipal representatives, incumbent decides not to defend mandate (variable Non -defend mandate) and personal disputes within the municipality. Conversely, the financial situation of the municipality, the age of the representatives, the voter turnout in the municipality, the number of voters, the number of candidate lists or associations and candidates proved inconclusive in most municipalities. A significant increase in new candidates is a consequence rather than an explanation of the holding of additional elections.

scholarly journals The Czech Pirate Party

Intersections ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Pink ◽  
Adam Folvarčný
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
National Level ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Lower Chamber ◽  
Election Results ◽  
New Feature ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Political Scene

In 2017, in addition to the traditional, old, and more recently established political parties, a new formation – the Czech Pirate Party – espousing more participative principles, including the use of online platforms for discussions – arrived on the political scene in the Czech Republic. This newcomer to the parliamentary ecosystem, shortly after achieving success at the national level, also managed to attract significant support in local elections. For this reason, there is currently a Pirate Party parliamentary group present in the Chamber of Deputies (the lower chamber of the Czech parliament), while simultaneously the mayor of Prague and members of the ruling coalition in Brno – the second biggest city in the Czech Republic – also represent the Pirate Party. Furthermore, recent opinion polls show support for the Pirates running at about 14%. This is coupled with another new feature: the young age of the party’s elected parliamentarians and local councilors, which brings new challenges to politics. After the elections, a number of commentators immediately dubbed the Pirate Party a ‘youth party.’ But is this really the case? What forms of participation do the party and/or its members use and encourage? This article offers answers to these questions. In particular, it presents the electoral base of this new political party through interpretative analysis. The data are based on election results triangulated with other sources – specifically, a Czech election study is juxtaposed against a quantitative survey carried out by three academic institutions in the Czech Republic (the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University, Brno; Palacký University, Olomouc; and the Institute of Sociology at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague). These statistical tools enable us to identify in great detail the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of Pirate Party voters (for instance: age, education, their views about contemporary democracy, and the timing of their decision to vote) and map their attitudes towards other parties and their leaders. The article reveals how popular the Czech Pirate Party is among the younger generation of voters, where the latter come from, and what political preferences they had previously.

scholarly journals Does Participatory Budgeting Bolster Voter Turnout in Elections ? The Case of the Czech Republic

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soňa Kukučková ◽  
Eduard Bakoš
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThough participatory budgeting (PB) is often discussed as a tool to bolster the level of civic participation and the quality of democracy, empirical research on the subject offers ambiguous results. In the Czech Republic, PB was introduced 5 years ago, and the number of implemented PBs has since increased substantially. The purpose of this article is to evaluate whether the use of PB is associated with higher voter turnout in municipal and parliamentary elections. Voter turnout in Czech municipalities that implemented PB is analyzed and compared with the control group of municipalities without PB. Considered by type of election, we found that the impact of PB use on voter turnout is higher for local elections than it is for national elections, which is in line with our assumptions. However, our results were significant for Prague districts only. Participatory budgeting could increase voter turnout in local election, but there are other factors that must be considered.

Determinants of Women’s Descriptive Representation in the 2014 Czech and Slovak Local Elections

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-410
Author(s):  
Pavel Maškarinec ◽  
Daniel Klimovský
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Descriptive Representation ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
The Czech Republic

The main objective of this article is to analyse the determinants of women’s descriptive representation in the 2014 local elections in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is shown that although both countries are considered democratic and in spite of two decades of multi-dimensional transition, women are underrepresented at the local level. Especially electoral results in the municipalities which are considered sub-regional centres and where almost one-half of the population of both countries is concentrated are studied. As it is pointed out, factors like local population or political and institutional factors play an important role in women’s success in local politics.

scholarly journals Participatory Budgeting and Traditional Participation in Czech Municipalities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavol Minárik
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
Limited Scale ◽  
Smart Governance

As an instrument of smart governance, participatory budgeting has been implemented by several dozen of municipalities in the Czech Republic. This is in line with the trend in many European cities. The paper examines the implementation of participatory budgeting in Czech municipalities. It is observed that participatory budgeting is being implemented in the Czech Republic typically on a very limited scale. The particular aim of this paper is to analyze the relation of participatory budgeting to the traditional political participation in local elections. Following an examination of the extent in which the instrument is implemented in the Czech municipalities, statistical tools are used to relate implementation of participatory budgeting to several measures of traditional political participation, such as voter turnout and intensity of the political competition in municipal elections. The paper concludes that the implementation of participatory budgeting has very little relation to the traditional, electoral participation in the Czech Republic.

Return of the Local Democracy to the Territory of the Military Training Areas (Case Study the Czech Republic)

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-213
Author(s):  
Petr Klusáček ◽  
Stanislav Martinát ◽  
Tomáš Krejčí ◽  
Josef Kunc ◽  
Jan Hercik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Military Training ◽  
General Level ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Intermunicipal Cooperation ◽  
Military Training Areas ◽  
The Military

The return of the local democracy to the military training areas raises a number of complex challenges even under the conditions of a democratic state. In the municipalities that were established in the Czech Republic on 1 January 2016 by a separation from the territory of the military training areas, a nondemocratic paternalist system has dominated for many decades at the local level, which in some cases was deepened by a presence of the foreign Soviet army. While other municipalities in the post-communist period after 1989 have undergone a complex development and have gradually responded to new challenges (e.g., the use of subsidy titles, intermunicipal cooperation), and, in the case of the settlements in the territory of the military training area districts, nondemocratic local paternalism was preserved until the end of 2015. In the first phase of their term, the elected representatives of the local government primarily focused on securing the basic functions of the municipality (issues of housing and basic amenities of the village—school facilities, shops), saving local sights as remnants of historical memory, and developing cooperation within different networks of actors on a general level (e.g., issues of tourism development, environmental protection).

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