Strategies of Actors Influencing Electoral Integrity : A Case Study of the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2017-3-249" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2017-3-249</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2017-3-249" target="_blank" >10.5817/PC2017-3-249</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Strategies of Actors Influencing Electoral Integrity : A Case Study of the Czech Republic
Original language description
The goal of this study is to examine the behaviour of electoral stakeholders that has influenced the quality of parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic since the 1998 elections. The text attempts to answer these questions: ‘What kinds of strategies do political actors use in electoral processes that decrease the quality of elections?’ ‘Do these tactics vary over time?’ ‘Are they efficient?’ ‘Who are the actors?’ The Czech Republic, as a newly established democracy, features comparably very high electoral integrity, while neighbouring countries experience (from time to time) electoral problems. This work aims to describe the behaviour of electoral stakeholders in order to understand whether they behave in a manner which maintains a high level of electoral integrity. The framework for analysis is constructed on the background of Andreas Schedler’s work (2002; 2013) with respect to influencing the level of institutional rules or the game within those rules. The analysis consists of different kinds of data sources. Among these, election observation mission reports, parties’ strategic documents (party manifestos), secondary analyses (providing the explanation of behaviour), and news (offering information about behaviour on a daily basis) are most important. The results will provide a description of primary electoral stakeholder behaviour, which then allows us to better understand how they affect electoral integrity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Politologický časopis
ISSN
1211-3247
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
XXIV
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
249-274
UT code for WoS article
000424710200002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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