Lokální aspekt volební podpory kandidátů do Senátu Parlamentu ČR

• Authors: Karolína Malcová

Title variants

EN

The local aspect of electoral support for candidates to the Senate of the Czech republic

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on the local aspect of electoral support for candidates to the Senate, the upper house of Parliament of the Czech Republic. Senate elections use a majority run-off system in single-member constituencies. First, the article describes the friends-and-neighbours effect, a process of electoral geography whereby voters prefer their own local candidate (i.e. a resident of the particular municipality or area) to opponents from geographically more distant localities. Second, the article examines the phenomenon of ‘local voting’ in elections to the Czech Senate. The analysis covers all electoral contests from 1996 to April 2011, including by-elections (except in the four largest cities by population owing to a methodological problem). The data file comprises a total of 1420 candidates and their election results at the municipal level aggregated to three geographically defined areas. It specifically examines differences in electoral support for a candidate in his/her home locality (municipality of residence), in a nearby neighbourhood up to 10 km away, and the rest of the constituency. Finally, the article focuses on the role of the home municipality’s size and monitors how local voting affects the level of voter turnout.

Keywords

CS

sociologie

EN

sociology; friends-and-neighbours effect; locality; voting behaviour; elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 283-313
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Karolína Malcová

• Sociologický časopis, redakce, Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic