Czech Republic: Running the State Like a Family Business

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66011-6_8" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66011-6_8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66011-6_8" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-66011-6_8</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Czech Republic: Running the State Like a Family Business
Original language description
The chapter considers three parties that display populist features: the ruling party ANO and two non-governmental parties, Freedom and Direct Democracy and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, which nevertheless both often back the government in the parliament, KSCM officially. Embodying different faces of populism, all three represent different versions of what the mainstream literature labels as populist parties. This chapter shows that the current crisis has not yet transformed their rhetoric but has brought to light its most important features. In our text, we first explain the broader political context, the spread of COVID-19 and the political measures to address the virus in the Czech Republic. It looks at the populist discourse of the three parties and, finally, their strategies of (de)politicization regarding the COVID-19 issue. In the case of ANO especially, there was a strong tendency to try to depoliticise the issue by involving experts and especially epidemiologists in the discussion.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Populism and the Politicization of the COVID-19 Crisis in Europe
ISBN
978-3-030-66010-9
Number of pages of the result
14
Pages from-to
101-114
Number of pages of the book
144
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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