Povolání zvolených poslanců za první republiky a dnes

Poláková, Markéta; Kostelecký, Tomáš

doi:10.5817/cepsr.2016.1.1

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“…Within the profession of individual candidates, there is an evident predominance of people who make a living from politics, that is, people for whom politics has become the primary source of livelihood (Balík et al 2019;Poláková -Kostelecký 2016). Because in the Czech Republic (Bernard -Čermák 2021;Hájek 2016Hájek , 2017Ryšavý 2016) and other countries (Navaro 2009;Sandberg, 2013) politicians choose a gradual path in their political paths (from the municipal, through the regional, to the Chamber of Deputies), it can be expected that even persons elected thanks to preferential votes will fulfill this path.…”

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The impact of closed and flexible candidate lists on the representation of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

Dvořák¹

2023

Politics in Central Europe

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This article addresses the impact of closed and flexible candidate lists on the representativeness of the lower house of the Czech Parliament from 1996 to 2021. Specifically, the paper explores representativeness according to gender, profession, residence, education, age and political experience. The effectiveness of preferential votes has manifested only since the electoral reform in 2010, mainly in the representativeness of women. Other monitored variables had a more pronounced influence, mainly in 2010 and 2013, when various citizen initiatives called for a change in the existing political set, and the new political parties disrupted the party system. Or when the voters of the PirStan coalition preferred the candidates of the STAN at the expense of the candidates of the Pirates in 2021.

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“…At the same time, they will be mayors, deputy mayors at the municipal level, and governors or deputies at the regional level. Many MPs in the Chamber of Deputies have prestigious professions (Poláková -Kostelecký 2016); Voda (2014) mentions the advantage in the number of preferential votes doctors obtain.…”

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The impact of closed and flexible candidate lists on the representation of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

Dvořák¹

2023

Politics in Central Europe

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“…The abovementioned professions, that is, professional (mainly local) politicians and doctors, are among those that have been significantly represented in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic since 1989 (Poláková & Kostelecký, 2016). As in the de scribed case of the UK, doctors are often well connected in the community in which they serve.…”

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“…At the same time, they are also perceived as skilled professionals who are able to solve complex problems. The doctor's profession is also considered the most prestigious in the Czech Republic, according to surveys (Poláková & Kostelecký, 2016). Candidates who are already practicing the job of a politician may then be perceived as experts who are ex perienced in the relevant area and who will therefore be better able to carry out the work of an MP if elected.…”

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When Preferential Voting Really Matters: Explaining the Surprising Results of Parties in Electoral Coalitions

Stanislav¹,

Jan²

2022

CJPS

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Preferential voting in a proportional list system is an essential means by which voters can significantly influence which particular politician will represent them. However, preferential voting takes on a new dimension when several parties run on the same list as a coalition. In this case, the intra-party competition may become inter-party competition, where one or more parties may gain significantly from preferential voting at the expense of their partners. Despite this, research on this topic has been significantly neglected. Using the case of the 2021 Czech general election, where two newly formed electoral coalitions (SPOLU and PIRSTAN) run, we examine the nature of preferential voting in this different context of electoral coalitions. In the first part of the analysis, when we analyzed the characteristics of all candidates of both coalitions, we first confirmed that the candidate effect commonly observed in the case of conventional candidate lists also exists in this context. At the same time, we found that the candidate effect (through the adequate distribution of influential characteristics across parties in a coalition) can also affect the inter-party competition (as was the case of the PIRSTAN coalition). In the second part of the analysis, we found that in the context of electoral coalitions, party characteristics can also have a substantial effect on preferential voting (as was the case of the SPOLU coalition). Thus, both of these categories of effects can exist in the case of coalition lists, and both can affect inter-party competition. Nevertheless, future research is needed to confirm whether these findings are generally valid or whether the Czech case is somehow deviant. Existing research on this topic does not allow for a comparison.

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“…Deskriptivní reprezentace znamená, že zastupitel je svou osobou nebo životními zkušenostmi v určitém smyslu typickým představitelem širší skupiny lidí, které reprezentuje, a proto se očekává, že bude při vykonávání mandátu schopen dobře hájit jejich zájmy (Linek 2009;Poláková a Kostelecký 2016). Geografická reprezentace vychází z tradiční vazby mezi poslancem a jeho voliči v parlamentních systémech používajících většinový systém a jednomandátové volební obvody.…”

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Geografická reprezentativa poslanců zvolených do Poslanecké sněmovny českého parlamentu za první republiky (1918-1938) a po roce 1989

Mikešová¹,

Kostelecký²

2016

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Election laws regulate the number of deputies who are elected in individual electoral districts, and set them in relation to the population, respectively to the number of voters participating in elections in individual regions. Elected deputies could thus be regarded as political representatives of citizens living in electoral districts. However, under systems of proportional representation, current deputies represent the ideology of the party to which they belong rather than the region. Nevertheless, it makes sense to study the spatial distribution of the places of origin and residence of members of parliament and their changes over time, because it suggests much about the political system and the system of representative democracy in the country. The spatial distribution of places of residence of candidates and elected members indicates not only the territorial proportionality and geographic representativeness, but also the shifting centers of political power. The analysis clearly confirms the gradual decentralization and regionalization of political power in the country, which stands in contrast to the centralization of power in the economy, this latter trend apparent from the concentration of economic management and decision-making in the largest cities, especially in Prague.

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Povolání zvolených poslanců za první republiky a dnes

Abstract: The article focuses on an analysis of the professions of Czech deputies in the interwar

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

The impact of closed and flexible candidate lists on the representation of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

The impact of closed and flexible candidate lists on the representation of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

When Preferential Voting Really Matters: Explaining the Surprising Results of Parties in Electoral Coalitions

Geografická reprezentativa poslanců zvolených do Poslanecké sněmovny českého parlamentu za první republiky (1918-1938) a po roce 1989

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