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Left behind places and spatial aspects of elections: nativism, populism, and the geography of discontent
Suchánek, Jonáš ; Hasman, Jiří (advisor) ; Kostelecký, Tomáš (referee) ; Maškarinec, Pavel (referee)
The topic of migration has come to the forefront of the European media and political discourse following the refugee wave in 2015 and 2016, accompanied by mainstreamed anti-immigrant and nativist narratives. In the subsequent years, populist radical right parties in many countries reached their electoral peaks and after Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential elections and the Brexit referendum, academic interest in studying populism surged intensely. One of the key conceptual approaches that contributed to the academic debate on exploring the causes of societal radicalization and polarization, as well as the resulting electoral manifestations, was the contextual understanding of specific peripheral areas through the lens of so-called left behind places and the geography of discontent. However, despite this contextual understanding of electoral processes, most studies rarely utilize modern spatial methods and the majority of such analyses primarily focus on the United States and countries in Western and Northern Europe. This dissertation thus introduces a comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of the Czech (and Slovak) electoral environment at the detailed level of municipalities. This allows for verifying the validity of the given concepts that find application in other countries. In...
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The effect of migration on electoral geography of populist-nationalist parties: the case of Freedom and Direct Democracy - Tomio Okamura party
Suchánek, Jonáš
Analytical research of a migrant's presence in a certain location on election outcomes of populist-nationalist parties is a relatively new phenomena in the field of electoral geography. Media and political interest in migration and refugees has risen rapidly in the last few years and offers a broad opportunity for relevant scientific studies. This thesis stems from existing literature, that have studied such relation and focuses on the case of The Freedom and Direct Democracy - Tomio Okamura Party (SPD) and on the possible influence of the share of migrants on SPD's electoral support at two different scale levels (municipalities with authorized municipal offices and individual municipalities) during the 2017 parliamentary elections. Analysing the most important groups of migrants and additionally a formed group of migrants coming from countries with either dominant or significant Muslim native population can be considered as innovative. The main goal is to discover whether the election outcomes of SPD, which stands strongly opposed to migration, differ based on the share of migrants in a certain area, or if migration does not play any role at all. Furthermore, the electoral geography of SPD is compared to the of Tomio Okamura's former party - Dawn of Direct Democracy, whose rhetoric did not focus...
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Social and geographical aspects of support for and variability of nationalism in Czechia
Cihlář, Pavel ; Lepič, Martin (advisor) ; Suchánek, Jonáš (referee)
Czech nationalism is a phenomenon that formed Czech history and it is still forming the Czech identity and attitudes. Nevertheless, this term significantly disappeared from the Czech public debate, as if it no longer concerned the Czech nation. This bachelor thesis tries to go against the trend, it`s target is to introduce the Czech nation and nationalism, to define the factors that determine the nationalist attitudes, and the analysis of their spatial variability. To achieve the targets the thesis uses a statistical method of binary logistic regression which is used for monitoring the relationship between the proxy variable of nationalism and the independent variables which are the basic structural and attitude variables commonly used in nationalism research. Through these predictors, the two influential hypotheses explaining the support for nationalism are tested. The theory of "losers of globalization" supposes the conditionality in the economic status and the theory of "cultural backlash" based on a nativist ideology. The found statistic associations were further observed in a regional detail using regions defined on the base of two - many times observed spatial patterns, namely phantom`s borders and dichotomy of core-periphery, further according to their combination and also according to the...
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The effect of migration on electoral geography of populist-nationalist parties: the case of Freedom and Direct Democracy - Tomio Okamura party
Suchánek, Jonáš ; Hasman, Jiří (advisor) ; Maškarinec, Pavel (referee)
Analytical research of a migrant's presence in a certain location on election outcomes of populist-nationalist parties is a relatively new phenomena in the field of electoral geography. Media and political interest in migration and refugees has risen rapidly in the last few years and offers a broad opportunity for relevant scientific studies. This thesis stems from existing literature, that have studied such relation and focuses on the case of The Freedom and Direct Democracy - Tomio Okamura Party (SPD) and on the possible influence of the share of migrants on SPD's electoral support at two different scale levels (municipalities with authorized municipal offices and individual municipalities) during the 2017 parliamentary elections. Analysing the most important groups of migrants and additionally a formed group of migrants coming from countries with either dominant or significant Muslim native population can be considered as innovative. The main goal is to discover whether the election outcomes of SPD, which stands strongly opposed to migration, differ based on the share of migrants in a certain area, or if migration does not play any role at all. Furthermore, the electoral geography of SPD is compared to the of Tomio Okamura's former party - Dawn of Direct Democracy, whose rhetoric did not focus...
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Regional differentiation of Japan
Kadeřábek, Tomáš ; Suchánek, Jonáš (advisor) ; Havlíček, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis focuses on regional differentiation of Japan with the aim to find somewhat more developed and less developed regions at the hierarchical level of prefectures. This work stems from a summary of the historical-geographical context of Japan's development and then works with the description and analysis of selected indicators and their following synthesis. This synthesis finds basis in utilizing factor and cluster analysis of selected indicators. Factor analysis is mainly used to reduce and saturate selected indicators which are subsequently used in cluster analysis. As a result of the cluster analysis, five clusters are identified, which to some extent represent regional differences of Japanese prefectures. One of the final conclusions of this thesis is the assumption that urban areas are greatly affected by selected socioeconomic indicators which have a major impact on the development of the prefectures. Another conclusion is that peripheral areas, often of rural and agricultural character, are rather less developed. Keywords: Japan, regional differentiation, historical-geographical context, Japanese prefectures, factor analysis, cluster analysis, regionalization
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Regional differences of Japan
Kadeřábek, Tomáš ; Suchánek, Jonáš (advisor) ; Havlíček, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis focuses on regional differentiation of Japan with the aim to find somewhat more developed and less developed regions at the hierarchical level of prefectures. This work stems from a summary of the historical-geographical context of Japan's development and then works with the description and analysis of selected indicators and their following synthesis. This synthesis finds basis in utilizing factor and cluster analysis of selected indicators. Factor analysis is mainly used to reduce and saturate selected indicators which are subsequently used in cluster analysis. As a result of the cluster analysis, five clusters are identified, which to some extent represent regional differences of Japanese prefectures. One of the final conclusions of this thesis is the assumption that urban areas are greatly affected by selected socioeconomic indicators which have a major impact on the development of the prefectures. Another conclusion is that peripheral areas, often of rural and agricultural character, are rather less developed. Keywords: Japan, regional differentiation, historical-geographical context, Japanese prefectures, factor analysis, cluster analysis, regionalization
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The effect of migration on electoral geography of populist-nationalist parties: the case of Freedom and Direct Democracy - Tomio Okamura party
Suchánek, Jonáš ; Hasman, Jiří (advisor) ; Maškarinec, Pavel (referee)
Analytical research of a migrant's presence in a certain location on election outcomes of populist-nationalist parties is a relatively new phenomena in the field of electoral geography. Media and political interest in migration and refugees has risen rapidly in the last few years and offers a broad opportunity for relevant scientific studies. This thesis stems from existing literature, that have studied such relation and focuses on the case of The Freedom and Direct Democracy - Tomio Okamura Party (SPD) and on the possible influence of the share of migrants on SPD's electoral support at two different scale levels (municipalities with authorized municipal offices and individual municipalities) during the 2017 parliamentary elections. Analysing the most important groups of migrants and additionally a formed group of migrants coming from countries with either dominant or significant Muslim native population can be considered as innovative. The main goal is to discover whether the election outcomes of SPD, which stands strongly opposed to migration, differ based on the share of migrants in a certain area, or if migration does not play any role at all. Furthermore, the electoral geography of SPD is compared to the of Tomio Okamura's former party - Dawn of Direct Democracy, whose rhetoric did not focus...
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Territorial polarity of socio-economic differentiation in Czechia
SUCHÁNEK, Jonáš
This bachelor thesis focuses on the territorial polarization of socio-economic differentiation in Czechia, which is determined by a spatial analysis of previously selected indicators, such as gross domestic product, unemployment rate or religiosity. These indicators are analysed, studied and divided into three individual groups (economic, social and other), differentiated by their own attributes. The main goal is to identify and define determinants and causalities, that made the formation of a certain territoral polarization possible. After a thorough syntesis, all regions are seperated into either a more developed or less developed section.
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