Publication details
Teritoriální homogenita a heterogenita českých senátních voleb 1996–2016
| Title in English | Spatial Homogeneity and Heterogeneity of Czech Senatorial Elections 1996–2016 |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | This book is a detailed examination of the elections to the upper chamber of the Czech national parliament – the Senate. Its main objective is to describe the essential characteristics of Senate elections using a dissimilarity score, with respect to three subdivisions of the Czech Republic: (a) cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, (b) Bohemia (Prague and Plzeň excluded) and (c) Moravia (Brno and Ostrava excluded). It analyses the results of the first and second rounds of voting in these three areas. It also views the three subdivisions through the optics of a typology of constituencies based on parties’ ability to succeed. Constituencies are divided into those where a party has been winning seats for a long time (electoral strongholds); those where a party has won seats repeatedly; those where it has won a seat once; and those where it is eliminated and does not even pass to the second round of voting. Beyond the election results themselves, the book also examines voter turnout, a key indicator of electoral competition. In addition to a comparative analysis, the book employs quantitative techniques to investigate the fundamental influences of socio-economic variables and the neighbour effect on electoral support for candidates in the two most recent elections, in 2014 and 2016. Here the key variable determining candidates’ success was whether they were local or not; the effect was particularly strong if they were established local politicians. The analysis also notes the most recent trends that have emerged in the last two and four years respectively – since the rise of the populist parties that have significantly altered the characteristics of the Czech party system. |