Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic

Kuba, Ondřej; Hudec, Oto; Stejskal, Jan

doi:10.1080/10758216.2022.2117197

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“…Oei et al (2020) also point out that besides the economic reorientation, the change of regional identities is the most difficult aspect of the transition of coal mining regions. The place-based and class identities and social imaginaries linked to coal mining have recently become an important dynamic in an emerging political "extractive populism", not only in the United States (Kojola, 2019;Mayer, 2022) but also in Germany (Abraham, 2019), Poland (with an exemplary case of the Turow open pit mine conflict, see Żuk and Żuk, 2022) or the Czech Republic (Osička et al, 2020;Kuba et al, 2022). Kojola (2019) examines and describes how the support for coal mining among white, working-class, and rural residents in the US has been made meaningful through nostalgia for preserving mining as a way of life and anger at outsiders (and burdensome government regulations), disrupting their livelihoods and extractive moral economy (as exemplified in the rhetoric of Donald Trump's claims of ending the "war on coal").…”

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The curse of coal or peripherality? Energy transitions and the socioeconomic transformation of Czech coal mining and post-mining regions

Frantál

Frajer

Martinát

et al. 2022

Moravian Geographical Reports

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New empirical evidence regarding theories of the resource curse and regional resilience in the context of energy transitions is presented in this article. Our analysis aimed to answer the questions of what the principal differences are between coal mining and other regions in the Czech Republic, and what are the determinants of population decline, unemployment and populism as some of the key indicators of socioeconomic transformation. Unlike most current European studies focusing on NUTS2 or NUTS3 regions, we deal with data for districts (LAU1). The analysis revealed that (in aggregate) coal mining and post-mining districts are worse off in terms of air quality, population vitality, labour market and social capital indicators. It would be problematic for policy implications to consider coal mining and post-mining districts as homogenous categories, however, since there are significant inter-group and intra-group differences in most indicators. Coal mining itself and its decline did not prove to be a direct determinant of population loss, unemployment, and support for populism. The factors significantly affecting these phenomena are geographical (peripherality, urbanisation, population density) and socioeconomic (education level, business activity). In this respect, a provocative question is offered: to what extent is it effective and sustainable to economically support coal mining regions in their existing industrial production structures and population scales, and whether the current processes of reterritorialisation and depopulation can be considered a natural process. The fact that coal mining districts are at the forefront in the implementation of wind energy may be seen as positive, but it raises questions about spatial concentration, and the environmental justice of renewable energy development.

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The curse of coal or peripherality? Energy transitions and the socioeconomic transformation of Czech coal mining and post-mining regions

Frantál

Frajer

Martinát

et al. 2022

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Czech political parties and the war in Ukraine: continuity of foreign policy stances

Kaniok,

Hloušek

2023

East European Politics

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Does Democracy Flourish in the Dark? Regional Development and Democracy Building

Coufalová,

Kecskésová,

Mikula

et al. 2024

MUNI ECON WP

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This paper examines the impact of regional development on democracy building in the Czech Republic following the fall of the Iron Curtain and the autocratic communist regime in 1989. By exploiting the variation in regional development arising from the economic transition process, we identify that regional development, approximated by nighttime light intensity growth, leads to a rise in voter turnout in parliamentary elections. The heightened voter turnout is associated with increased electoral support for pro-system, pro-democratic parties, indicating that regional development facilitates democracy building. Conversely, we find no effect of regional development on the electoral support for the direct successor of the pre-1989 Communist Party. This suggests that while regional development may mitigate anti-system sentiment, it does not eliminate nostalgia for the fallen autocratic regime.

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Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic

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The curse of coal or peripherality? Energy transitions and the socioeconomic transformation of Czech coal mining and post-mining regions

The curse of coal or peripherality? Energy transitions and the socioeconomic transformation of Czech coal mining and post-mining regions

Czech political parties and the war in Ukraine: continuity of foreign policy stances

Does Democracy Flourish in the Dark? Regional Development and Democracy Building

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