Rostoucí sociální nerovnosti ve volební účasti v Česku v letech 1990–2010

• Authors: Lukáš Linek

Title variants

EN

Growing Social Inequalities in Electoral Participation in the Czech Republic, 1990–2010

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to analyze the social and class inequalities in turnout in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2010. Thus, the study focuses on a description of the evolution of the relationship between turnout and key characteristics of socio-economic status: education, income and social class. This research utilizes a pooled cross-sectional post-election survey dataset from the Czech Republic fielded over two decades; and employs standard statistical methods, i.e. contingency tables and convergence models, to analyze change in turnout among population subgroups. There are signs of a gradual crystallization of both social and class inequalities in electoral participation. Convergence models reveal a linear increase in educational and class inequalities in turnout. In the case of income, however, this study finds evidence of a crystallization of income based inequalities in participation rather than a growth in inequalities per se.

Keywords

EN

turnout; social stratification; education; class bias in turnout

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY
• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše společnost (Our Society)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-14

Contributors

author

Lukáš Linek

• CVVM, SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.13060/1214-438X.2013.11.1.1