J 2024

Nervi rei publicae : local governments as economic populists?

PERNICA, Bohuslav, Jan FUKA, Robert BAŤA a Pavel ZDRAŽIL

Základní údaje

Originální název

Nervi rei publicae : local governments as economic populists?

Autoři

PERNICA, Bohuslav, Jan FUKA, Robert BAŤA a Pavel ZDRAŽIL

Vydání

Policy Studies, Abingdon, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2024, 0144-2872

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.200 v roce 2022

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

DOI

UT WoS

999

Klíčová slova anglicky

Populism; economic populism; local government; budget policy; Czech Republic

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 29. 4. 2024 14:22, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

This article introduces a novel Mixed Populism Indication approach to the study of economic populism in the democratic polity to examine populism at the level of local government in the Czech Republic. In particular, we apply quantitative methods to a financial data of 5804 local government units sample to assess economic populism. This quantitative selection is developed on the principles of financial analysis, which form the basis of the algorithm we propose to process financial data. This is followed by an in-depth, qualitative evaluation of election results and the spatial context of suspected cases. From the results for the municipal environment, we identify populism as strategy used by some local governments. As a part of this strategy, local authorities target outsiders (non-residents) who own property. Although this policy of hostility to outsiders goes against the rational economic interests of the residents, they support this policy in local elections. Finally, this article argues that local political leaders in small municipalities act as populists in shaping tax policy.