Czech political parties, their functions and performance: Assessing Czech party politics

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HAVLÍK Vlastimil HLOUŠEK Vít

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Scientia et Societas
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Faculty of Social Studies

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Field Political sciences
Keywords political parties; democracy; Czech Republic; elections; representation
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Description In the European Union (EU) today political parties face a range of issues and challenges within the party systems of their respective countries. For parties in new member states of the EU, those which underwent a process of democratic transition during the 1990s, the situation is more complicated than for the rest. In a way, their position is more precarious than that of their Western European counterparts, as the concept of “political party” has various and not always positive connotations in Central Europe. Our contribution will not attempt to evaluate the positives and negatives of party politics in all EU member states with postcommunist legacies, but will focus on the Czech Republic.
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