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Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
The Discursive Dimension of Second-order Elections: The Case of Czech Regional Elections 2012
The goal of this paper is to describe linguistic and issue differences in election manifestos of the parties involved in the Czech 2012 regional election and contribute to a better understanding of second-order election (SOE) theory on a discursive level. The year 2012 brought two main changes: a significant success...
Friday, October 9th, 2015
Stable or not? Patterns of party system dynamics and the rise of the new political parties in the Czech Republic
The text analyses the stability and dynamics of the party system in the Czech Republic after 1989. After summarizing the theoretical discussion about the stability of the party politics, the author applies selected tools for measuring the party system stability within the Czech party system environment. Besides the stability of...
