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Obrana, akvizice či nesoutěž? Jak se měnila podoba a intenzita soutěže mezi českými stranami v letech 2006–2014?
| Title in English | Defence, Acquisition or Non-Competition? How Did the Form and Intensity of Czech Party Competition Change between 2006 and 2014? |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociologický časopis |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/cs/issue/185-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-5-2016/3655 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2016.52.5.275 |
| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | party competition; policy space; elections |
| Description | This article seeks to examine changes in the Czech party system competition between 2006 and 2014. It draws on Sani and Sartori’s concept of party competition, incorporating later findings on the nature of party competition to facilitate its application to fluid party systems. It conceptualises party competition as multi-dimensional and in terms of the (A.) salience of individual dimensions for political parties and the (B.) positions that the parties occupy in these dimensions. Three types of relations in party competition are distinguished: non-competitive, defensive and acquisitive competition. The article examines Czech party competition using data from the Chapel Hill questionnaire survey focusing on three dimensions: socio-economic, European, and social-liberal/conservative. The analyses focus on changes in the positions of parties and the salience of the three dimensions at a given point in time; special attention is devoted to the competition strategies of individual parties while taking into account the duration of their existence (new vs traditional parties). The findings indicate that the nature of party competition has transformed. There have been changes in the intensity of the competition, the salience of the dimensions of the competition, the space of the competition and the share of individual types of competition. The article finds, in consent with previous studies, that most competitive relationships (primarily defensive in nature) occurred in the socio-economic dimension, but it also finds that there is very strong potential for the development of intense party competition in the other two dimensions if there is an increase in their level of salience. |
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