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Decrease of Electoral Preferences of ČSSD after the Chamber of Deputies' Elections in 2017
Telerovský, Hynek ; Stauber, Jakub (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
The bachelor thesis is concerned with the Czech Social Democratic Party and focuses on the election failures of the party in the last two decades. The main objective is to answer the question: What caused the electoral decline of one of the most influential political parties in the Czech Republic? The author identifies potential sources of such a decline. In the theoretical part, he discusses the problems of social democracies on the European continent in the context of the global financial crisis of 2008, which he sees as one of the general factors behind the decline of these parties. In the case of CSSD, the author adds the failed attempt to modernize CSSD, which may have contributed to its decline. In the practical part, both factors are examined in more detail with a specific focus on the CSSD. Using the method of synchronic comparison, the author compares the changes in the electoral success of individual social democratic parliamentary parties in the period 2010-2021. The second factor, concerning the electoral performance of the CSSD after the party's modernization, is examined in the context of the movement of voters and the emergence of new political parties based on the analysis of sociological data. The results confirm the author's assumption that the increasing electoral decline of the...
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The Opposition Agreement - Conditions, Forms and Consequences of Party Patronage in the Czech Republic
Zběžková, Tereza ; Müller, Karel (advisor) ; Vymětal, Petr (referee)
The thesis deals with the topic of party patronage in the Czech Republic, specifically in the context of the so-called opposition agreement, i.e. the CSSD minority government in the years 1998-2002. Patronage is a concept that has recently been given to the forefront of scientific research. An important part of this thesis is to identify the different concepts of party patronage and to specify the context of clientelism and corruption. Political order as it was designed by the opposition agreement has been subject of many discussions and conformed to cartel party system, the thesis analyzes significant events of this period on the background of the cartel party theory and draws conclusions about the application of this theory in the Czech Republic. The period of the opposition agreement is still remembered in the context of expansion of corruption and clientelistic ties and practices, the thesis is trying to question this relationship and suggest other possible tendencies that can contribute to the extent of these practices in Czech politics. In addition to corruption and clientelism, special attention is paid to the form of party patronage. The first part defines the theoretical concepts, clientelism, corruption, patronage and the cartel party theory. The next section introduces the opposition agreement, the circumstances of its creation and is followed by the application of the theory of cartel parties on the political organization of that period. The last part presents the form of party patronage in the Czech Republic, focusing on the context of the opposition agreement and persistent tendencies.
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