Czechia 30 years On: An Imperfect Oligarchy Without Emancipatory Alternative

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11210/22:10454958

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-78915-2_8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-78915-2_8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78915-2_8" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-78915-2_8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czechia 30 years On: An Imperfect Oligarchy Without Emancipatory Alternative

Original language description

This chapter analyses the causes of the crisis of democracy in the Czech Republic and the possibilities of a chronological analysis of the transformation decades. The crisis of democracy is manifested in the Czech Republic above all by mass disillusionment with democratic politics, and by the open access of oligarchs to political power. Unlike approaches that see this turn as a discontinuity, the chapter describes it as one of the possible and logical results of the whole transformation process. This process is reconstructed as a competition between two capitalist factions and respective political projects: neoliberal nationalism and liberal globalism. The chapter presents a chronological analysis of the three post-communist decades based on the three periods of rule of various factions (1992–1998 neoliberal nationalist rule, 2002–2010 globalist rule, 2013–? oligarchic rule), and three interregna (1990–1992, 1997–2002, 2008–2013). The chapter describes the interests and composition of the factions which competed for power in the transformation decades, analyses the main problems they dealt with during the interregna (economic transformation, democracy, economic dependence) and then looks at the characteristics of the main competing discourses (the naturalness and morality of the market, civil society, democratic majoritarianism, discourse of colony, discourse of corruption).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’ : New Left Perspectives from the Region

ISBN

978-3-030-78914-5

Number of pages of the result

18

Pages from-to

133-150

Number of pages of the book

285

Publisher name

Palgrave Macmillan

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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