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Specifics of challenger party voters in the Czech environment
Poplštein, Martin ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Stauber, Jakub (referee)
The rise of new challenger parties is already quite noticeable, especially in the Czech environment. However, this paper qualitatively focuses on research into the deeper thinking of the electorates of these parties. It looks at the actual reasons leading voters to choose these parties, but also examines how well such parties match the demand and ideological position of individual voters. Because the state of knowledge to date reveals certain specificities of these voters, the literature on these parties has taken a primarily quantitative approach to examining challenger party voters. However, the largely combined design of this paper explores deeper contexts in a single state setting. Overall, the thesis finds that respondents make their decision to vote for a challenger party based on several themes and visions of change, particularly the renewal of the composition of the House and the government, stemming from the face and overall PR of the parties. At the same time, respondents found it attractive to vote for candidates "untainted" by politics, as they hold views on corrupt and clientelistic politics. However, the challenger voters tend to be younger people with different views to those of the dominant parties, who are predominantly made up of the older 60+ population. Therefore, it can be...
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