URBÁNNO-RURÁLNE ROZDIELY VOLIČSKÉHO SPRÁVANIA V ČESKU A NA SLOVENSKU

• Authors: Tomáš Kostelecký , Vladimír Krivý

Title variants

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Urban-rural differences in voting behaviour in Czech Republic and Slovakia

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Within the period after 1989, we compare two societies with majority of the population residing in cities, which however applies more significantly to Czech Republic. Analyses of aggregated data from parliamentary elections confirm larger urban-rural cleavage than analyses based on survey research. Although both societies have a very similar profile of voter turnout regarding municipalities' population size, the difference in political preferences between countryside and cities is less prominent in Czech Republic than in Slovakia. Alternation of „urban“ and „rural“ coalition governments, which was occurring in Slovakia, was not observed in Czech Republic. Urban-rural political cleavage is significantly weaker in Czech Republic.

Keywords

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VOTING BEHAVIOUR; CZECH SOCIETY; SLOVAK SOCIETY; URBAN-RURAL CLEAVAGE; MUNICIPALITIES; POPULATION

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 390 – 413

Contributors

author

Tomáš Kostelecký

• Sociologický ústav AV ČR, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Vladimír Krivý