Stable or not? Patterns of party system dynamics and the rise of the new political parties in the Czech Republic

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Authors

HAVLÍK Vlastimil

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Romanian Journal of Political Science
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Field Political sciences
Keywords political parties; party system; dynamics; volatility; Czech Republic
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Description 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 individual political parties, the author also deals with systemic approaches by emphasising the importance of the inter-party relations and concludes that the Czech party system could be considered as a relatively stable one when taking into account the performance of individual parties, at least to the 2010 election, but relatively unstable when assessing the systemic relations.
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