Czech Republic: Regional Elections Without Regional Politics

The presented paper deals with the regionalization of the electoral support of the Czech Pirate Party (Pirates) in regional elections using methods and techniques of spatial data analysis. The aim is to answer the question whether the territorial distribution of Pirate electoral support allows this party to participate in governance at the regional level and thus influence the form of regional policy in individual regions. The results of the analysis show that the spatial distribution of Pirates’ electoral support in regional elections differed quite significantly not only from the pattern found in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament and elections to the European Parliament, but also between individual regional elections. This suggests the current lack of anchorage of Pirates’ electoral support in regional politics, but at the same time, it may have its origins in the second-order character of regional elections and the candidacy of many local and regional entities in regional elections. On the other hand, the results of the regional elections in 2020 meant that the Pirates received seats in all regional councils, but especially in nine of the thirteen regions they joined the regional government (similarly to two years earlier when they joined government of capital city of Prague), gaining the opportunity to influence, with regard to its priorities, the form of regional governance in most Czech regions.

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The regional elections in the Czech Republic: The second-order elections?

Politické vedy ◽

10.24040/politickevedy.2020.23.1.142-177 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 142-177

Author(s):

Jan Hájek

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Second Order ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Regional Elections

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Effects of direct investments on the regional development

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis ◽

10.11118/actaun201260070119 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 60 (7) ◽

pp. 119-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gabriela Chmelíková ◽

Radka Redlichová

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Regional Development ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Economic Base ◽

Regional Politics ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Methodical Basis ◽

Industrial Zones ◽

The Impact ◽

Base Structure

This article discusses the problems of exogenous approach to regional development and tries to evaluate the impacts of such regional politics. Specifically, it is focused on the evaluation of investments efficiency in the hard infrastructure of municipalities. The main contribution of this paper lies in establishing a methodical basis for the evaluation of investments in the hard infrastructure of municipalities, both from the view of economic impacts on the economy of respective municipalities and also from the view of wider social context, concerning mainly the employment and economic base structure. Subsequently, the impact of majority of industrial zones in the Czech Republic on regional development is tested using this methodological approach.

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Omyl, nebo úmysl? Analýza neplatných hlasů v olomouckém kraji

Středoevropské politické studie Central European Political Studies Review ◽

10.5817/cepsr.2014.23.214 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 16 (2–3) ◽

pp. 213-236

Author(s):

Aleš Kudrnáč ◽

Jakub Lysek ◽

Daniel Rejman

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Statistical Analysis ◽

Economic Factors ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Socio Economic Variables ◽

Regional Elections ◽

Electoral Law ◽

The Given ◽

Socio Economic Factors ◽

Concurrent Elections

This article deals with the phenomenon of invalid voting which has appeared in regional elections in the Olomouc region in the Czech Republic. First, contemporary theories of invalid voting are introduced. Second, the given hypotheses, which include both institutional and socio-economic factors that, according to the theories, contribute to higher levels of invalid voting, are tested. Statistical analysis such as linear regression is employed in the research. The dataset is comprised of municipalities (cases) in which regional elections were held. The results show that higher levels of invalid voting are associated with concurrent elections (elections to the regional assembly and elections to the upper house (the Senate) of the Czech Parliament) in those municipalities in which residents are older and less well-educated. If regional elections are held without concurring elections, socio-economic variables have a smaller effect on invalid voting. Therefore, the state authorities should consider a revision of respective electoral law and simplify the electoral process involved in concurrent elections.

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Regional Election in Czech Republic 2020

Scientific and Analytical Herald of IE RAS ◽

10.15211/vestnikieran520203137 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (5) ◽

pp. 31-37

Author(s):

Mikhail Vedernikov ◽

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Democratic Party ◽

Election Campaign ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Political Preferences ◽

Regional Associations ◽

Regional Authorities ◽

Expert Community ◽

Regional Elections ◽

Second Wave

On October 2-3, 2020, regional elections were held in the Czech Republic amid the second wave of the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Despite the traditional attitude to this election as secondary, its significance for the expert community was in the fact that it made possible to study political preferences of the population on the eve of the upcoming elections in 2021. Although the citizens of the Czech Republic preferred ANO movement, analysts noted the strengthening of the opposition forces – Pirate Party, the Civil Democratic Party and the STAN movement. The main feature of their participation in the last election campaign was their coalition with regional associations and movements, which made it possible to mobilize the population and claim more active participation in the work of regional authorities. Thus, scholars concluded that this approach could become the key to success in 2021. In turn, the ANO’s coalition partners tend to weaken their positions. Their fate in the future parliament was uncertain.

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