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%T Czech Political Parties and Their Voters: An Analysis of Voting Patterns in the Czech Republic %A Vlachova, Klara %J Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review %N 1 %P 39-56 %V 5 %D 1997 %K Political Behavior %= 2009-03-17T16:05:00Z %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-54177 %X Analyzes voting patterns in the 1992 & 1996 parliamentary elections of the Czech Republic, aiming to identify voter motives for & against the political parties involved. Shifts in votes & voter reasons for their choices are charted, using data from a TV exit poll (N = 12,222) & several smaller voter surveys. The patterns are mapped according to the Left-Right political spectrum & sympathies/antipathies for six particular parties. Analysis shows that the party claiming the most votes, the left-wing social democrats, drew voters from the center & the extremes & appealed to the average median voter profile. Negative voting (ie, voting against candidates) proved to be a significant voting motivation. These trends in both elections place the Czech political party dynamic on course with political scenes common to stable Western democracies. %C MISC %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info