Political Parties in the Czech Countryside: What Role do they Still Play?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F25%3A00643920" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/25:00643920 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/euco-2025-0029" target="_blank" >https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/euco-2025-0029</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/euco-2025-0029" target="_blank" >10.2478/euco-2025-0029</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Political Parties in the Czech Countryside: What Role do they Still Play?

Original language description

This article examines the changing role of political parties at the local level in the Czech Republic, focusing on municipalities with fewer than 500 inhabitants. Based on a quantitative analysis of over 3,400 municipalities in the 2010–2022 local elections and interviews with mayors, the study shows that independent candidates dominate local elections and that the number of candidates affiliated with political parties declines with each election. Parties have largely abandoned programmatic roles, limiting their involvement to candidate nominations and links to higher political levels. A seven-type classification captures how parties persist symbolically and pragmatically in rural governance. The limited involvement of political parties reflects the distinctive nature of local governance, where informal networks and non-partisan initiatives often take precedence over party politics.

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

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-07822S" target="_blank" >GA20-07822S: The Reconfiguration of Political Landscape - Explaining Independent Candidates Lists in Elections to Municipal Councils in the Czech Republic</a><br>

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

European Countryside

ISSN

1803-8417

e-ISSN

1803-8417

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

571-588

UT code for WoS article

001649864900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105026801187