Publication details
The impact of closed and flexible candidate lists on the representation of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Politics in Central Europe |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
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| Web | article - open access |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pce-2023-0009 |
| Keywords | closed candidate list; flexible candidate list; the Czech Republic; personalization |
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| Description | This article addresses the impact of closed and flexible candidate lists onthe representativeness of the lower house of the Czech Parliament from 1996 to 2021.Specifically, the paper explores representativeness according to gender, profession, resi-dence, education, age and political experience. The effectiveness of preferential voteshas manifested only since the electoral reform in 2010, mainly in the representativenessof women. Other monitored variables had a more pronounced influence, mainly in 2010and 2013, when various citizen initiatives called for a change in the existing politicalset, and the new political parties disrupted the party system. Or when the voters of thePirStan coalition preferred the candidates of the STAN at the expense of the candidatesof the Pirates in 2021. |
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