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Representative Democracy in Czechia : a disconnect between the national and EU level

KOVÁŘ, Jan, Petr KRATOCHVÍL a Zdeněk SYCHRA

Základní údaje

Originální název

Representative Democracy in Czechia : a disconnect between the national and EU level

Autoři

KOVÁŘ, Jan, Petr KRATOCHVÍL a Zdeněk SYCHRA

Vydání

Brussels, Representative Democracy in the EU : Recovering Legitimacy, od s. 107-127, 21 s. 2019

Nakladatel

CEPS

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Belgie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Odkazy

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

ISBN

978-1-78661-339-4
Změněno: 3. 6. 2019 08:40, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

Until recently, Czechia’s party system revolved around the two strongest parties. However, this system collapsed when it was replaced by the government of Andrej Babiš’s ANO movement, which represents the most recent embodiment of a series of populist parties in the last decade. Parliamentary control of the executive is theoretically strong, but many instruments are used ineffectively and even parliament’s strongest power (the no confidence vote) is rarely used successfully. The Czech Parliament has functional structures to deal with the EU agenda, but EU issues remain second-order ones. Moreover, when the EU agenda is debated, it is predominantly framed in domestic political terms. Political parties do not build systematic structures to ensure intra-party EU expertise and have only a limited number of expert staff at their disposal. There is relatively strong cohesion among Czech MEPs within political groups. However, they are often perceived as autonomous units within their parties. Overall, the Czech representative model is relatively functional at the national level, but it is clearly separate from the European level, and its ability to intervene in the EU’s dynamics is limited.