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Konflikt v hlasování Poslanecké sněmovny PČR (1993–2013)

DVOŘÁK, Petr

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

Language

Czech

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50601 Political science

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/15:00083390

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

Government-opposition Relations; Party Government; Government Dominance; Parliament Voting; Coalition Unity; Czech Republic

Tags

Reviewed
Změněno: 29/7/2015 14:47, Mgr. Lucie Pospíšilová

Abstract

V originále

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.

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