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Nowoczesna: A Transformed Entrepreneurial Party?
Pohanka, Vojtěch ; Stauber, Jakub (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
Entrepreneurial parties are a relevant but overlooked topic in contemporary political science. This thesis seeks to contribute to the emerging literature on entrepreneurial parties with a case study of the Polish party Nowoczesna (Modern). The main research question that it seeks to answer is whether Nowoczesna, during its various stages of development, met the criteria of the entrepreneurial party model. The case of Nowoczesna was chosen primarily because the party underwent a leadership alternation, which is of theoretical relevance for the entrepreneurial party concept. For its theoretical framework, the thesis uses the definition of the entrepreneurial party concept developed by Hloušek, Kopeček and Vodová in their 2020 book The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics. To operationalize the multidimensional concept, the thesis uses a variety of indicators, including von dem Berge and Poguntke's Assembly-based Intra- party Democracy index as well as measures of electoral and social media personalization. Semi- structured interviews with Nowoczesna's members provided additional insight into the party's origin and development. The analysis finds that Nowoczesna met the criteria and could be classified as an entrepreneurial party during its foundational period and then began to diverge...
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Selected Central European left-wing political parties in the context of the institutionalization theory
Kačírek, Lukáš ; Stauber, Jakub (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with problematics regarding the theory of institutionalization and its application on certain political subjects in Central Europe. The thesis is based on multi-case study which analyses two political parties - Slovak SMER-SD and Czech ČSSD, using political science concept of institutionalization. The main objective is to analyse both parties since their foundation and to obtain results regarding these theoretical questions: 1) Is the strong institutionalization the main reason for longevity of social democratic parties? 2) What are the similarities and differences between each political party in level of their institutionalization? The thesis uses theories of institutionalization by Robert Harmel, Lars Svåsand and Hilmar Mjelde to acquire answers to these questions. Theories of institutionalization are then supplemented by Jakub Stauber's criteria; each dimension of the theory is further elaborated. At first, both political systems are introduced in which concerned parties operate, then the thesis follows up with approach of selected authors towards theory of institutionalization. Lastly, the thesis focuses on the research itself and inspection and comparison of final results.
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Patterns of Institutionalization of Political Parties in the Czech Republic
Stauber, Jakub ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (referee) ; Kouba, Karel (referee)
Research on political parties and their organizational stability presents one of the most important research agendas in modern comparative politics. Especially among newly democratized countries of the Central and Eastern Europe, the consolidation of democratic political institutions used to be considered as a key factor for the successful finishing of the whole transitional process. Despite the fact that most of the transitologists optimistically perceived the consolidation of the new democracies as a one-way process, the most of party systems in the eastern countries experienced serious changes and periods of instability within the last ten years. The most notable change was definitely the unexpected electoral success of genuinely new political parties and movements usually led by a political entrepreneur and formed without solid organizational background or solid ties to society. This tendency further turned into a new wave of unpredictability even within the party systems commonly perceived as fully stabilized and consolidated. Based on such new conditions, the contemporary party researchers turn their attention towards possible interpretations of this unprecedented phenomenon. This dissertation contributes to this discussion by the attempt to operationalize and explain the level of...
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Czech political parties. Towards the continous transformation of memebership features
Linek, Lukáš
Czech political parties have built their organisations since the beginning of the 1990s in an environment that was hostile to organised partisanship. They face a lack of interest among citizens in joining political parties, which can be seen in the continually falling number of members in the case of KDU-ČSL and KSČM, and in the case of ČSSD and ODS in the stagnation of the number of members since their inception. Political parties have adapted their organisational strategies to these trends and now they strongly resemble membership features described in Western Europe.
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