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The Party Discipline of the State Duma Deputies after the Mixed-Member Electoral System Renewal
Vřešťálová, Dominika ; Svoboda, Karel (advisor) ; Koutník, Jan (referee)
The study examines the level of party voting discipline displayed by current Russian deputies. The objective is to discover whether deputies elected since the reintroduction of the mixed-member electoral system in 2016 showed a diverse level of party voting discipline. The study expands on the existing research and verifies results of earlier analysis proving weaker party discipline among politicians elected from single-member districts (SMDs). A sample of over 500 thousand deputy votes is analyzed with multiple regression analysis and other methods of quantitative research. The research explores the influence of several variables including the type of elections, political faction membership, double candidacy of a deputy and his incumbency in the previous term of office. Evaluation of results implies that the type of elections does not have a significant impact on party discipline of deputies. The most noticeable is the impact of the membership in various political factions. Greater independence in voting typical for SMD deputies does not manifest considerably in Russia because of the impact of the local hybrid regime and because the majority of SMD deputies belong to the faction of United Russia. Members of a faction with such importance tend to be less motivated to vote against their political...
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An Attempt to Reform the Electoral System to the Chamber of Deputies Parliament of the Czech Republic after Election in 2006
Bahenský, Martin ; Koubek, Jiří (advisor) ; Polášek, Martin (referee)
This submitted bachelor thesis analyses an attempt to reform the electoral system to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic after the 2006 election. The proposed so-called "Greek variant" of the Topolánek's electoral reform established a bonus for the winner of the electoral competition within the proportional representation stipulated in the Czech constitution. The theoretical framework is based on the theory of mixed electoral systems by Canadian political scientists Louis Massicotte and André Blais. The aim of author of this work is hypothetical application of this failed electoral reform to the parliamentary election in 2013, its classification according to Massicotte and Blais and last but not least, a criticism of this attempted electoral promoted particularly by Civic Democratic Party. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Parliamentary election in Venezuela 2010
Jirsová, Tereza ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Rey, Martin (referee)
In parliamentary election in September 2010 Chavez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) obtained almost the same number of votes as the opposition's Coalition for Democratic Unity (MUD), however PSUV got 32 seats more than the opposition. Through this significant difference many publicists from all over the world considered MUD as a winner of the election. This bachelor thesis is analyzing the election and tries to bring the answer to two questions - what is the reason for such a big difference between obtained seats while the number of votes has been almost the same and who is the real winner of this election. Apart of this the bachelor thesis also focuses on the development of Venezuela in the last decades and on electoral systems in general.
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