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The paper disputes the acceptance of a specific nationality as a traditional requisite for the suffrage. Particular attention is paid to parliamentary elections, because a parliament generally represents the leading state authority. The paper also contents an attempt to formulate alternatives that would replace the nationality as a requisite of the suffrage. They are above all the principle of affected interests and the coercion principle, which also demonstrate the fact that an individual is a part of the political community and therefore should have the right to participate on the government of this political community, even though the suffrage. The paper is based on the authorʼs habilitation lecture.
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The aim of this study is to map out the approaches taken by Czech political parties to the issue of woman’s suffrage in regional government and legislative bodies, which was part of the “woman’s question”. In this connection it will be necessary to ascertain the extent and the nature of the public activities enabled by key civil and political laws, as Czech political parties managed to utilize the space provided by existing legislation for the benefit of the civil and political equality of women and the extent of influence of the Catholic church on Czech society, which placed women outside the public arena.
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Compared to the neighboring countries, the political system in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars appeared to be an island of democracy in Central Europe, particularly after the seizure of power in Germany by the Nazis and the annexation of Austria by the German Reich. Still, however, various aspects of the democratic system in Czechoslovakia were criticized by some theoreticians and politicians, also from democratic points of view. This applies also to the electoral system. The heaviest criticism of the electoral system during the First Czechoslovak Republic focused on two electoral techniques: The use of Hare’s method in the first scrutiny to calculate the mandate number, and the practice of using strictly conditioned candidate lists. With the application of this method there were more surplus votes for the second scrutiny than when using another technique, such as the Hagebach-Bischoff method. Thus, the whole system based on political parties became one of the crucial problems of Czechoslovak democracy in the period under consideration. The position of party bosses was extremely strong, the conditions inside the party were highly centralized. Party members were controlled through conditioned candidacy. A widely applied practice was the ideological viewing of potential party renegades. The parties acquired too much power in influencing the state administration. In spite of the questionable features of the party role in the country’s political system there were some advocates of it. Therefore, neither the electoral system nor the structure of political parties changed until 1938.
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