Spatial polarization of Czech Parliamentary voting since 1992: The “V” shaped trend uncovered

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/acpo-2025-0005" target="_blank" >10.2478/acpo-2025-0005</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spatial polarization of Czech Parliamentary voting since 1992: The “V” shaped trend uncovered

Original language description

The association between social sorting and political polarization is increasingly evident. Often overlooked is, however, the role of spatial sorting. In line with the US evidence, we can expect internal homogenization and external differentiation of neighbourhoods in their voting behaviour, also in the European context. In this article, we conduct the first longitudinal analysis of such spatial polarization in a European multi-party system, exploring its degree and development across several spatial scales, innovatively employing multi-group statistical indices developed for the study of ethnic segregation. We analyse the case of Czechia, contributing to a scarce amount of political polarization evidence in this country. The resulting spatial polarization of voting is generally very low, with the trajectory in the shape of the letter &quot;V,&quot; corresponding to three phases of Czech party politics. The 2002 legislative election saw the greatest degree of internal electoral heterogeneity of neighbourhoods, preceded by the period of formation of Czech party politics and followed by the period of increasing prominence of populist/anti-populist and cultural cleavages. Despite the increase in spatial polarization in recent years, Czech electoral behaviour still remains more or less evenly distributed in space, and the Czech mass political polarization should be rather attributed to factors other than neighbourhood homogenization.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Acta Politologica

ISSN

1804-1302

e-ISSN

1803-8220

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

36-47

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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