The 2021 Czech Parliamentary Electoral Reform
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26482789%3A_____%2F22%3A10152398" target="_blank" >RIV/26482789:_____/22:10152398 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://acpo.vedeckecasopisy.cz/publicFiles/002507.pdf" target="_blank" >https://acpo.vedeckecasopisy.cz/publicFiles/002507.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/1803-8220/6_2022" target="_blank" >10.14712/1803-8220/6_2022</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The 2021 Czech Parliamentary Electoral Reform
Original language description
Electoral systems, seen as the most specific manipulative instrument of politics, thus come to the forefront of politicians' interests. Recently, the Parliamentary Electoral Act in Czechia was amended. The case study focuses on a brief reflection on this electoral system change enforced by Constitutional Court judgment. The shortcomings of the 2002 electoral system have been identified; discussed are changes in electoral legislation and the political consequences thereof, including by simulating electoral results since 2002 under the new electoral system and comparing them with those under the previous Parliamentary Electoral Act, e.g. by analysing the overall seats-votes proportionality, parliamentary parties' over-/ underrepresentation or malapportionment, and confronting the political consequences of the new Parliamentary Electoral Act with the 2021 Constitutional Court judgment. Despite the many flaws in the Court's reasoning and the inconvenient timing, there was some space for the political elites to remedy the deficiencies of the 2002 electoral system. The case study concludes that the political representation did not take advantage of but rather missed the opportunity to remedy the Czech electoral legislation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Politologica
ISSN
1803-8220
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2/2022
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
6-22
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85131250485