Czech Political Parties and Policy Analysis in the Perspective of Policy Advisory Systems

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech Political Parties and Policy Analysis in the Perspective of Policy Advisory Systems

Original language description

This chapter addresses policy analysis in Czech political parties. We are interested in how the main Czech political parties use policy analysis to respond to increasing demands on their policy capacities in policy making. Thus, we focus on the parties' formal mechanisms and the organisational arrangements that produce the required policy-related expertise. We assume these arrangements take the form of policy advisory systems (see among others Howlett, 2009). In exploring the parties' policy capacities, we concentrate on the configuration of a party advisory system on the intra- and extra-party levels. The intra-party arrangements of policy capacity involve the organisational setting of expert bodies, such as expert committees, 'shadow' ministers (or party speakers on the policy), policy analysis units and so on. Our examination of the extra-party arrangements of policy capacity is based on Kuhne's (2008) typology of extra-party consultation, which distinguishes three sources of political parties' external policy expertise (academic-based, lobbying and professional consultation). We focus on Czech parties represented in the Parliament, especially the two formerly predominant political parties, the Social Democrats (left-wing) and the Civic Democrats (right-wing). These parties represented the two 'poles' of possible governing coalitions and we suppose that their policy capacities have significantly affected the government's policy activities.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-20962S" target="_blank" >GA13-20962S: Policy-Related Expertise in Czech Political Parties</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Policy Analysis in the Czech Republic

ISBN

978-1-4473-1814-9

Number of pages of the result

20

Pages from-to

217-236

Number of pages of the book

336

Publisher name

Policy Press

Place of publication

Bristol

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