The 2020 Czech regional elections: A story of a winner that lost
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F22%3A50018163" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/22:50018163 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15210/22:73612143
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13597566.2021.1948839" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13597566.2021.1948839</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.1948839" target="_blank" >10.1080/13597566.2021.1948839</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The 2020 Czech regional elections: A story of a winner that lost
Original language description
The Czech 2020 regional elections were won by ANO, a party led by prime minister Andrej Babiš. ANO received a plurality of votes in 10 of the 13 regions, but joined the regional government in only 3 of them. This election report explains this puzzling outcome as a result of three main causes: the national political polarization which facilitated coordination between the fragmented opposition parties against the winner, the electoral collapse of the historical Left (the Social Democrats and the Communists), and profound shifts in the voter turnout of key demographic groups. Registering a sharp increase in the regional presence of the Pirate Party and moderate overall gains of the centre-right opposition, these regional elections amplified the polarization of Czech national-level politics. They also increased the regionalization of political competition.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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
Regional and Federal Studies
ISSN
1359-7566
e-ISSN
1743-9434
Volume of the periodical
32
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
485-497
UT code for WoS article
000672724200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85110166522