Political party membership and personality characteristics in the Czech Republic (2005)

Employing most similar design and process-tracing methodology, this chapter focuses on Poland and the Czech Republic in the postcommunist region. It discusses the divergent paths these two countries have taken since their transitions. After discussing the similarities and dissimilarities of these two cases, it turns to the welfare policies shared by both countries with some differences under their former communist rule. It also traces voter turnout and linkage between political party and citizens, and explores how these two factors have affected social policies in each country. The last section offers a comparison of Polish and Czech social policies regarding the level and nature of their targeted spending and its effect on income inequality.

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Activism after EU Leverage

Coming Out of Communism ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479876631.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 140-170

Author(s):

Conor O'Dwyer

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Political Party ◽

The Political ◽

Political Opportunity Structure ◽

Political Opportunity ◽

Opportunity Structure ◽

Lgbt Rights ◽

The Czech Republic

This chapter completes the close comparison of Poland and the Czech Republic. In 2004, both became EU members, a change that weakened transnational leverage and reshaped the political opportunity structure such that the costs of repressing LGBT-rights movements fell. In Poland, this shift led to an immediate increase in direct and indirect repression under a newly elected hard-right government. Over the longer term, however, this backlash reinforced solidarity, prevented internal framing contests, and helped win movement allies. The chapter focuses in particular on how Polish activism became electorally mobilized through an alliance with the political party Your Movement. The Czech Republic, where the hard right remained irrelevant, saw no such backlash; nor, however, did the Czech movement reap backlash’s benefits. Instead, it continued the demobilizing and deinstitutionalizing trends described in the previous chapter.

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Business‑Firm Parties and the Czech Party System after 2010

Politics in Central Europe ◽

10.1515/pce-2016-0018 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 83-110 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Petr Just ◽

Jakub Charvát

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Political Party ◽

Party System ◽

Public Affairs ◽

Business Firm ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The Public

Abstract The case study presented in this paper applies the business-firm party concept to two political entities active in the Czech party system after 2010: the Public Affairs Party (VV) and the Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO 2011) movement. We assess whether these actors meet the criteria of the business-firm party model and, thus, whether they can be considered representatives of this type of political party in the Czech Republic. The study concludes with a comparison of VV and ANO 2011 as two possible variations on what is known as the business-firm party model.

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Political Party System in the Czech Republic, Democracy, and the 1996 Elections

Czech Sociological Review ◽

10.13060/00380288.1996.32.4.04 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 423-438

Author(s):

Kevin Krause

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Political Party ◽

Party System ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Political Party System

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Party organizational strength and party unity in post-communist Europe

European Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s1755773911000257 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 409-431 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Margit Tavits

Keyword(s):

Comparative Literature ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Political Institutions ◽

Political Party ◽

Causal Mechanism ◽

Party Organization ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Party Characteristics

The existing comparative literature focuses on political institutions to explain party unity in parliament, and largely ignores the role of party characteristics in this process. This study argues that the strength of political party organization directly and independently influences the level of party unity. Organizational strength makes the party a valuable asset to individual legislators, thus increasing their willingness to be disciplined. Therefore, parties with strong organizations are likely to be more unified in parliament than those with weak organizations. I find support for this argument with data from four post-communist democracies: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, and Poland. Narratives suggest that the proposed causal mechanism is plausible.

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What makes a good minister of a political party? Impact of party- and field-related experience on party pledge fulfilment

Party Politics ◽

10.1177/13540688211055930 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 135406882110559

Author(s):

Petra Vodová

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Political Party ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Test Of Hypotheses

The article examines the effect of the personal characteristics of ministers on their party and coalition partners' pledge fulfilment. Partisanship and additional party-related experience is expected to help party pledge fulfilment. Previous field-related experience should additionally open up the space for alternative principals. However, in combination of both variables, the partisan motivation shall be the leading mechanism for the behaviour of the minister – and the field-related experience can help partisan ministers to follow party mandate better. The joint dataset of objectively testable pledges in the Czech Republic (2007–2015) supplemented by the information of government ministers is used for the test of hypotheses. The article shows that not only holding the portfolio but also the particular features of ministers, especially those related to the party-related experience, influence their ability to fulfil party promised policy.

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AN EVALUATION OF CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTREPRENEURS BY STUDENTS OF CZECH AND SLOVAKIAN UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR TENDENCY TOWARDS ENTREPRENEURSHIP

CBU International Conference Proceedings ◽

10.12955/cbup.v6.1138 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 88-94

Author(s):

Ján Dvorský ◽

Zora Petráková ◽

Martina Jurigová

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Slovak Republic ◽

Personality Characteristics ◽

Risk Awareness ◽

Z Score ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Doing Business ◽

Statistical Hypotheses ◽

Score Method

The aim of this article is to compare the assessment of significance of personality characteristics of entrepreneurs in the Czech and Slovak Republic as well as the tendency of students to start entrepreneurships after graduating from university. The research sample consisted of 409 students from 14 universities studying business in the last year in the Czech Republic and 568 students from 8 universities studying in the Slovak Republic. In order to meet the paper’s aim, statistical hypotheses were formulated and validated using the Z-score method. One result is that students working in universities in the Slovak Republic are more interested that Czech students in doing business within three years after finishing their studies, unless unexpected circumstances happen in their families. More than 75% of the addressed students at the Slovak university considered endurance, expertise, responsibility and risk awareness as the most important qualities of an entrepreneur. More than 60% of Czech students have the same opinion. There are significant differences in opinions of the students from the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

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Attitude toward innovativeness based on personality traits in the SME sector. Czech Republic case study

Management & Marketing ◽

10.2478/mmcks-2018-0013 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 913-928 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ludmila Kozubíková ◽

Martin Čepel ◽

Monika Zlámalová

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Secondary Education ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Sociodemographic Factors ◽

Education Level ◽

Personality Characteristics ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Gender Education

Abstract The research of personality characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs in relation to EO constructs is an important part of the research of the whole entrepreneurial environment of small and medium-sized enterprises. The aim of this paper is to search for a relationship between personality traits and the attitude toward innovativeness as a construct of EO of SME entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic based on their sociodemographic factors (gender, education, and age). Results from a questionnaire-based survey of the entrepreneurial environment of SME in the Czech Republic showed that the attitude toward innovativeness differed for entrepreneurs considering perseverance and responsibility to be important for entrepreneurship based on their education level. Entrepreneurs with secondary education or secondary educated with graduation were more confident about the reputation of their business as an innovator than university educated entrepreneurs.

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