The Influence of the Economic Disparities Between Regions on Political Polarisation in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.46585/sp31011614" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.46585/sp31011614</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46585/sp31011614" target="_blank" >10.46585/sp31011614</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Influence of the Economic Disparities Between Regions on Political Polarisation in the Czech Republic

Original language description

This paper aims to evaluate how the economic prosperity of regions affects the polarization of political representation, and thus of society. It examines whether economically prosperous regions, represented by economic well-being, show lower political polarisation, and whether regions with lower levels of economic prosperity are more likely to elect polarised and extreme political representatives. The paper focuses on the period from the establishment of the Czech Republic in 1993, to the last elections in 2021 in the NUTS 3 regions of the Czech Republic. Evidence was provided through a determination of the effect of economic well-being, defined by three indicators, i.e., gross domestic product per capita, unemployment, and disposable income per capita, on the development of a created political polarisation index. This index is based on the left-right ideological party division combined with election results for the Chambers of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic of regional districts. Sociodemographic indicators of the development of the individual regions were used as control variables. These include the average population, share of the university-educated population, age indicators, population density of a given region, voter turnout in a specific election year, and various positions in the institutional setting of the Czech Republic. The most significant components of economic well-being that influence the development of polarisation are the growth of disposable income and unemployment. This is demonstrated through a quantitative economic analysis of the panel dataset using the least squares with fixed effects method that uses time-fixed and region-fixed effects.

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

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF19_073%2F0016670" target="_blank" >EF19_073/0016670: Internal grants of Mendel University in Brno</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice. Series D, Faculty of Economics and Administration

ISSN

1211-555X

e-ISSN

1804-8048

Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1614

UT code for WoS article

001041317500004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85152375121