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Seeking a Type: the Czech Party System after 1989
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Abstract This article studies the issue of a typological categorization for the Czech party system. The author works from Sartori’s concepts of moderate and polarized pluralism; the reasons for using this concept are laid out in the theoretical part of the text. An analysis of individual phases of developmen... view more
This article studies the issue of a typological categorization for the Czech party system. The author works from Sartori’s concepts of moderate and polarized pluralism; the reasons for using this concept are laid out in the theoretical part of the text. An analysis of individual phases of development of the Czech party system shows that until the middle part of the last decade the Czech party system could not be fit into a single type. However, analysis of the current form of the
Czech party system at the electoral and parliamentary levels shows that the today’s Czech multi-party system displays the characteristics of a moderate pluralism.... view less
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
Czech party system; moderate pluralism; polarized pluralism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 90-109
Journal
Politics in Central Europe, 6 (2010) 1
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
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