Staying in power: a case study of municipal leadership stability in Czechia

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/25:10510239

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2025-0009" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2025-0009</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2025-0009" target="_blank" >10.2478/geosc-2025-0009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Staying in power: a case study of municipal leadership stability in Czechia

Original language description

The major transformative events in Czechia after 1989 came with many aspects of a new reality, including changes to the geographical organisation of society and public administration. Along with this reality, there was a fundamental change in the electoral behaviour of the population and its discontinuity in time and space at different scales. Given the above, it is clear that the voting behaviour of the Czech population is partly determined by socio-economic and socio-demographic factors, in addition to increasing spatial polarisation. The aim of this paper is therefore to help – using the stability index – reveal the spatial differentiation of the stability of local political elites (members of assembly) and electoral behaviour in selected types of regions in Czechia during the period from 1994 to 2022. The territory of the Pilsen Region and South Bohemian Region was chosen for the analysis. These regions represent territorial units co-determined by structural changes and at the same time, show a relatively higher internal differentiation of social, demographic, economic and other phenomena. The highest values of analysed stability were identified in low-populated rural municipalities with up to 200 inhabitants, with the exception of a few mountain municipalities in the state border areas. Conversely, it can be noted that there are a number of border municipalities with up to 200 inhabitants. The results show a significant spatial differentiation of the examined stability and its ambivalent character, determined by selected socio-economic factors. For these reasons, the selected types of regions can be identified as suitable territorial units for a pilot analysis of the stability of local political elites.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

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

GeoScape

ISSN

1802-1115

e-ISSN

1802-1115

Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

112-126

UT code for WoS article

001650671900004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105026786813