Political Participation in Czech Rural Municipalities

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Political Participation in Czech Rural Municipalities

Original language description

Contemporary democracies have to face many challenges such as voter turnout, low interest of citizens in political participation and centre vs. periphery and urban vs. rural cleavages in policy-making. This paper analyses citizens? political participation in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic. Rural areas represent a special field in the political process because political parties are weakly anchored in rural municipalities. In the Czech Republic, we often see an incomplete spectrum of politicalparties in municipalities with less than 2000 inhabitants (90% of all municipalities) and even the parties, which do work in the municipality, have very weak membership. There are usually no political parties active in municipalities with less than 1000inhabitants (80% of all Czech municipalities) and only non-party candidates are active in these municipalities. Therefore, independent personalities play an important role. The importance of independent personalities is in reciprocal pro

Czech name

Politická partivipace ve venkovských obcích ČR

Czech description

Contemporary democracies have to face many challenges such as voter turnout, low interest of citizens in political participation and centre vs. periphery and urban vs. rural cleavages in policy-making. This paper analyses citizens? political participation in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic. Rural areas represent a special field in the political process because political parties are weakly anchored in rural municipalities. In the Czech Republic, we often see an incomplete spectrum of politicalparties in municipalities with less than 2000 inhabitants (90% of all municipalities) and even the parties, which do work in the municipality, have very weak membership. There are usually no political parties active in municipalities with less than 1000inhabitants (80% of all Czech municipalities) and only non-party candidates are active in these municipalities. Therefore, independent personalities play an important role. The importance of independent personalities is in reciprocal pro

Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2005

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

A Common European Countryside? Change and Continuity, Diversity and Cohesion in an Enlarged Europe

ISBN

963-460-902-3

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Number of pages

2

Pages from-to

155-156

Publisher name

András Csite

Place of publication

Keszthely

Event location

Keszthely

Event date

Aug 22, 2005

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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