Dimensions of Politics in the Czech Republic

Hájek, Lukáš

doi:10.5817/pc2018-2-131

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“…The spatial models of roll calls are depicted in Figure 5 . Since the current findings suggest that the politics in the Czech Republic is driven by an institutional and an ideological dimension, the models are two-dimensional ( Hájek, 2018 ). To make the models comparable, I rotate the coordinates, so the line between ODS and KSČM becomes horizontal.…”

Section: Legislative Behaviour Of Mps During the Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Such an analysis has been already employed in the case of the Czech Republic (e.g. Lyons and Lacina, 2009 ; Hájek, 2018 ).…”

Section: Legislative Behaviour Of Mps During the Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…7 Besides this, the coordinates are adjusted, so the distance between the two parties runs from 0 to 1. The distance between the two parties is employed as the anchor since ODS and KSČM represent two side-poles of the economic left–right ideological spectrum, which is the driving ideological dimension in the Czech Republic ( Hájek, 2018 ; Bakker et al , 2020 ).…”

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Legislative Behaviour of MPs in the Czech Republic in Times of Covid-19 Pandemic

Hájek

2021

Parliamentary Affairs

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COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic has affected almost every aspect of our lives. While millions of people fought with the disease, economies, societies and institutions faced side-effects of government measures resisting the spread of the virus. This article describes the effects of the pandemic on the legislative behaviour of MPs in one of the worst-hit countries in the world, the Czech Republic. The results show that the number of bill proposals and roll calls substantially increased during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic times. Since the start of the outbreak, a third of roll calls and a half of bill proposals concerned the pandemic. Nonetheless, the outbreak did not substantially affect the voting unity of parliamentary party groups nor the opposition became more supportive of the cabinet. Still, while the liberal Pirates became more cooperative during the pandemic than the pre-pandemic period, the rightist antisystem party Freedom and Direct Democracy receded from the rest of the parties on the pandemic issues.

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Section: Legislative Behaviour Of Mps During the Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Such an analysis has been already employed in the case of the Czech Republic (e.g. Lyons and Lacina, 2009 ; Hájek, 2018 ).…”

Section: Legislative Behaviour Of Mps During the Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Legislative Behaviour Of Mps During the Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

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