Economic and Pandemic Performance Voting in the 2021 Czech National Election
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F22%3A00569153" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/22:00569153 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.politologickycasopis.cz/en/archive/2022/3/" target="_blank" >https://www.politologickycasopis.cz/en/archive/2022/3/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2022-3-281" target="_blank" >10.5817/PC2022-3-281</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Economic and Pandemic Performance Voting in the 2021 Czech National Election
Original language description
The literature on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected vote choice provides evidence of both ‘rally-’round-the-flag’ effects and the influence of perceived government pandemic performance. However, this evidence concerns short-term effects. Much less is known about how COVID-19-related economic changes and government measures in response to the pandemic have affected vote choice over a longer period. Using a post-election survey from the Czech Republic fielded in October 2021, we examine the effect of pandemic-related issues on support for governing parties in an election one and a half years after the pandemic started, focusing on a general evaluation of the economy and of government pandemic performance and on individual economic and health-related experiences of COVID-19. First, a negative health-related experience of COVID-19 did not affect vote choice. Second, only business loss negatively affected governmental support, job loss had no effect. Third, retrospective evaluations of the national economy and government pandemic performance affected vote choice, while retrospective evaluation of one’s personal economic situation did not. Fourth, the majority of the above-mentioned effects drove support for the dominant governing party (ANO) and only in a limited way support for the junior cabinet partner (ČSSD).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-06096S" target="_blank" >GA19-06096S: Level and sources of electoral volatility in post-communist Europe</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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
Politologický časopis
ISSN
1211-3247
e-ISSN
1805-9503
Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
281-297
UT code for WoS article
000971070400004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85143676411