Petr Voda

Masaryk University | MUNI · Department of Political Science

We demonstrate effects of political preferences on interpersonal interactions in the environment of the highly unstable and volatile party system of the Czech Republic. The effects of partisanship on interpersonal relations are compared to the effects of attitudes on a salient issue. Two experiments confirm the potential of political partisanship t...

This chapter summarises the main findings of our book. Based on our results, we conclude that the politically biased spending of public resources is a tool elected officials can use to sway the attitudes of citizens. Similarly, various strategies of public money distribution affect how the public perceives political decision-making. In this chapter...

In this chapter, we will focus on how people perceive the distribution of public resources, which is not always conducive to the ideals of a democratic system. Public resources are often used as a tool to secure re-election and are not distributed fairly but in a targeted manner to a select group of beneficiaries. Through a series of experimental s...

This chapter offers a theoretical insight into the politically biased distribution of public resources and its public response. It deals with pork-barrel politics and its main issues. It focusses on the political actors who control the distribution mechanisms, and the strategies they use to funnel money in a biased manner. The chapter also summaris...

One of the potential factors entering into the process of redistribution of public resources is the ethnicity of the recipient. In fact, in multi-ethnic countries, clientelism is closely related to ethnic politics. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the ethnocultural differences of the Central European countries’ populations became more pronounced...

This chapter completes the empirical analysis by focussing on the impact of public spending on political trust. More specifically, it seeks to explain how EU grants to municipalities affect the trust of the people in the political institutions at various territorial levels that participate in the allocation process. We understand trust as a diffuse...

This chapter follows the theoretical expectations from previous parts of the book and studies the distribution of public resources in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. To do so, it applies a multi-layer perspective. More specifically, we study the allocation of grants to municipalities from funding programmes located at three different territorial l...

This paper analyzes factors facilitating the electoral success of the Slovak extreme-right party ĽSNS by examining contextual explanations of electoral support during in 2010–2016 national elections. Conducting regression analysis on aggregated data, we find that, during the 2010 and 2012 elections, the local presence of a Roma minority was importa...

The paper analyzes long-term effects of changes in external conditions on the support for populist parties in the Czech Republic. The results confirmed importance of political dissatisfaction for the rise of populist parties but are limited by the presence of other protest parties. While the evidence of the effects of the economic context is mixed,...

The Czech Pirate Party is one of the most electorally successful Pirate parties in the world. In this article, we analyse the effect of its intra-party deliberation preceding participation in an executive coalition in the second biggest Czech city, Brno, after the 2018 local election. The study relies on a combination of party open online discussio...

The Czech Pirate Party is one of the most electorally successful Pirate parties in the world. In this article, we analyse the effect of its intra-party deliberation preceding participation in an executive coalition in the second biggest Czech city, Brno, after the 2018 local election. The study relies on a combination of party open online discussio...

Těsně po volbách v roce 2017 obletěl republiku videozáznam tiskové konference, při které Andrej Babiš, vítěz voleb, volá na pódium Marka Prchala, svého muže číslo jedna na komunikaci na sociálních sítích. Euforický Babiš viditelně zaskočeného Prchala políbil na čelo a veřejně mu tak připsal nemalou část kreditu za volební výsledek (“…a samozřejmě n...

This paper examines list order of candidates in regional elections in Slovakia. We conducted an experiment with a randomized and rotated ballot ordering. Our results show that earlier positions on the list receive significantly higher portions of votes. This effect is even more substantial for candidates without public office although it works also...

This paper examines list order of candidates in regional elections in Slovakia. We conducted an experiment with a randomized and rotated ballot ordering. Our results show that earlier positions on the list receive significantly higher portions of votes. This effect is even more substantial for candidates without public office although it works also...

Municipal size and institutional design are important factors influencing representation at a local level. However, this has not been studied with regard to the long-term perspective. The article focuses on the effect of the center/periphery on the representation of units within an amalgamated municipality in local elections. The analysis is based...

Even though partisan cues are widely recognized as a primary force shaping voter behaviour in a referendum, their effect on a decision whether to attend or abstain from voting has not yet been carefully studied. Our analysis of the pre-referendum survey data gathered before the 2015 citizen-initiated referendum in Slovakia leads to two important co...

The politically motivated distribution of public funding, or pork-barrel politics, occurs for various reasons, one of which is the wish to reward political allies over political rivals. Despite the widespread nature of this practice , research in Central Europe has not yet examined this issue at every level of publication administration. The litera...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/spsr.12299

The aim of this article is to clarify connections between citizens’ knowledge and their positions in a political space in the Czech Republic. Rather than a political space as a whole, previous studies examined particular issues, values, participation or accuracy of citizens’ positions compared to positions of their preferred candidates in associati...

Publikace analyzuje východiska, průběh a výsledky parlamentních voleb na Slovensku v roce 2016, které svými politickými důsledky dosahují charakteru politického zemětřesení. Kniha je rozdělena do tří pomyslných čás tí. První část (kapitoly jedna až tři) popisuje volební vstupy: složení kan didátních listin relevantních politických stran, proměny ve...

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The party system of the Czech Republic has traditionally been considered as a case of exceptional stability in the region of East-Central Europe. It was also almost a perfect example of unidimensional competition. This persistence and stability was undermined by the results of the 2010 and especially 2013 election, which brought the unprecedented r...

This paper deals with the name order of candidates and its influence on results in regional elections in Slovakia. Using a dataset of 8,881 persons we found that candidates with names from both the beginning and the end of the alphabet are clearly advantaged when compared to their rivals. These candidates occupy the front and bottom positions on th...

This article explains the basis for electoral support for political parties in the Czech and Slovak Republics in the post-1993 period. The database consists of results from Parliamentary elections (in the Czech context, elections to the Chamber of Deputies) and of data obtained from censuses carried out by statistical agencies. The theory of confli...

V poradí štvrté priame prezidentské voľby na Slovensku priniesli prekvapujúceho víťaza a tiež množstvo porazených. Víťazom sa stal Andrej Kiska, kandidát bez akýchkoľvek predchádzajúcich skúseností s volenými politickými funkciami. Dokázal poraziť nielen kandidátov etablovaných opozičných strán, ale aj úradujúceho premiéra Roberta Fica. Publikácia...

With the restore of party plurality in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989, the far right was able to emerge and operate in this region. Due to a lack of immigrants in these countries, the far right parties found domestic ethnic minorities a proper scapegoat to win votes. This article analyzes the support of the main extreme right party in Slovak...

Since 1990s India has become one of the fastest growing economies of the world. Economic growth, which is creating new opportunities as well as conflicts, has deep effects on Indian society. Critical interpretation of social consequences of the fast economic growth has been the main objective of the book. Changes in differences between social group...

The paper deals with the issue of the "candidate effect" within the proportional electoral system. The basic database consists of the total count and the share of preferential votes won by the candidates listed as first on party ballots in the Czech national parliamentary elections in June 2006. These election results, which are analyzed in the fol...