Konflikt v hlasování Poslanecké sněmovny PČR (1993–2013)

DVOŘÁK, Petr. Konflikt v hlasování Poslanecké sněmovny PČR (1993–2013) (Adversary Voting in the Czech Chamber of Deputies (1993–2013)). Středoevropské politické studie. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, XVII, No 1, p. 57-87. ISSN 1212-7817. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CEPSR.2015.1.57.

Basic information

• Original name: Konflikt v hlasování Poslanecké sněmovny PČR (1993–2013)
• Name (in English): Adversary Voting in the Czech Chamber of Deputies (1993–2013)
• Authors: DVOŘÁK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Středoevropské politické studie, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 1212-7817.

Other information

• Original language: Czech
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50601 Political science
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: cepsr.com
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/15:00083390
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CEPSR.2015.1.57
• Keywords in English: Government-opposition Relations; Party Government; Government Dominance; Parliament Voting; Coalition Unity; Czech Republic
• Tags: Reviewed

Abstract

Studie se snaží uchopit a systematizovat základní vývoj vztahu mezi vládou a opozicí na půdě Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky. Kritériem srovnání je míra konkurence (konfliktní interakce v porovnání s konsensuální) při hlasování mezi těmito dvěma bloky.

Abstract (in English)

The paper explores the legislative unity of government and opposition blocs in the Czech Chamber of Deputies over a period of twenty years. As voting unity is usually rather low in the Czech Republic, temporarily high concentrations of the respective blocks’ votes are linked to higher rates of conflict between the government and opposition. I use the Rice and UNITY indices to compare average unity scores of individual cabinets and also explorative time series of unity vectors in order to analyse bloc concentration, success rate, and increased conflict. The outcomes are relevant as both a case study and a methodological observation: (1) Broad differences in the logic of interaction are confirmed (e.g. caretaker cabinets show less conflict than standard cabinets). Although no universal trend (e.g. a transition from consensual to conflictual practice) is found, the Czech opposition became more concentrated and resorted to the tactics of serial blocking in the second decade; thus, a major change of behaviour occurred after all. (2) The Rice and UNITY indices correlate considerably; UNITY’s discrimination capacity is not distorted significantly despite the nature of equilibria in the Chamber. Moreover; the UNITY index is able easily to distinguish contested votes which are not detectable by the Rice index alone.

Links

• MUNI/A/1342/2014, interní kód MU: Name: Aktuální problémy politologického výzkumu

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A