The presented paper deals with the regionalization of the electoral support of the Czech Pirate Party (Pirates) in regional elections using methods and techniques of spatial data analysis. The aim is to answer the question whether the territorial distribution of Pirate electoral support allows this party to participate in governance at the regional level and thus influence the form of regional policy in individual regions. The results of the analysis show that the spatial distribution of Pirates’ electoral support in regional elections differed quite significantly not only from the pattern found in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament and elections to the European Parliament, but also between individual regional elections. This suggests the current lack of anchorage of Pirates’ electoral support in regional politics, but at the same time, it may have its origins in the second-order character of regional elections and the candidacy of many local and regional entities in regional elections. On the other hand, the results of the regional elections in 2020 meant that the Pirates received seats in all regional councils, but especially in nine of the thirteen regions they joined the regional government (similarly to two years earlier when they joined government of capital city of Prague), gaining the opportunity to influence, with regard to its priorities, the form of regional governance in most Czech regions.

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Migration is a cyclical process which also involves a decision as to whether to return. The situation in Slovakia is characterised by a high number of young people studying abroad. Up to now, the process of their migration and return has been studied frequently from an economic perspective. However, the return migration also contributes to social changes in the home country of the migrants. Therefore, the return migration opens new research, areas and themes some of which we include in our paper. In contemporary migration studies, the transfer of new ideas, practices and codes of behaviour between the place of origin and destination covers the concept of social remittances. The idea of social remittances focused sociological attention on the tendencies of returning young migrants to become bearers of change and development in their home country. In this paper, we are presenting findingsabout practical aspects how young Slovak migrants become agents of social change in their immediate circle, community and even society. KEY WORDS: migration, return migration, young migrants, social changes APSTRAKT Migracija je ciklični proces koji uključuje i odluku o tome da li se vratiti. Veliki broj mladih iz Slovačke studira u inostranstvu. Procesi njihovih migracija i povratka su do sada proučavani najčešće iz ekonomske perspektive. Povratna migracija, međutim, utiče i na društvene promene u njihovoj domovini i otvara nove istraživačke oblasti i teme, od kojih su neke uključene u ovaj rad. U savremenim studijama migracija, transfer novih ideja, praksi i kodova između mesta porekla i mesta destinacije je obuhvaćen pojmom društvenih doznaka. Ideja društvenih doznaka je usmerila sociološku pažnju na tendenciju da mladi povratnici postaju nosioci promena i razvoja u svojoj domovini. U ovom radu predstavljamo nalaze o praktičnim aspektima toga kako slovački migranti postaju akteri društvenih promena u njihovom neposrednom okruženju, zajednici, čak i u društvu. KLJUČNE REČI: migracija, povratna migracija, mladi migranti, društvene promene 1 roman.hofreiter@umb.sk 2 katarina.kostialova@umb.sk

The research question is if an increase in pandemics corresponds with significant changes in mobility (supported by the public stay-at-home orders and willing decrease of movements) by the spheres of economic activities (parks (leisure time spending), grocery stores, workplaces, pharmacies, transportation stations, retail, recreation, and home) in the Czech Republic. The additional research question is if this pattern correlates with a high decrease in salaries and employment. This paper aims to answer these research questions. This research applies the graphical analysis and fixed-effects regression methods for high-frequency data for answering these questions. The main result is that an increase in the number of infected people significantly decreases human mobility and increases their visits to pharmacies and staying at homes. At the same time, the government support measures can be effective, because there is no huge drop in salaries and employment in the Czech Regions. This pattern contradicts the expectations based on the US patterns. The output of the regression analysis is that 2-5 thousand new infections a day can paralyze mobility in the entire region.

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