Přehled o publikaci
2025
Time for Regional Parties to Shine or for National Parties to Lock Horns Again? The True Nature of Czech Regional Elections
FOLVARČNÝ, Adam; Jan HRUŠKA and Michal PINKBasic information
Original name
Time for Regional Parties to Shine or for National Parties to Lock Horns Again? The True Nature of Czech Regional Elections
Authors
FOLVARČNÝ, Adam; Jan HRUŠKA and Michal PINK
Edition
East European Politics and Societies, Thousand Oaks, University of California Press, 2025, 0888-3254
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
References:
Marked to be transferred to RIV
No
Organization
Fakulta sociálních studií – Repository – Repository
UT WoS
EID Scopus
Keywords in English
regional elections; regionalisation; dissimilarity score; Bohemia; Moravia; three-dimensional index of congruence; second-order elections; regional parties
Links
MUNI/A/1502/2021, interní kód Repo.
Changed: 3/3/2026 00:50, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík
Abstract
In the original language
Establishing representative bodies for the regions was an opportunity for politics to be decentralised. Using a three-dimensional index of congruence of the vote, this text explores the extent to which this opportunity has been taken up in Czech regional elections. Analysing all such ballots since 2000, it compares electoral competition at the national and regional levels; the success of regional parties is also analysed. The results show that Czech regional polls are strongly national in flavour, and their results are similar to those of national elections (only the second-order-election effect is visible); the success of regional parties is very limited, while national parties clearly dominate.
