Kdo rozhoduje v českých politických stranách? Vzestup nových politických podnikatelů ve srovnávací perspektivě

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Title in English Who Makes Decisions in Czech Political Parties? The Rise of New Political Entrepreneurs in Comparative Perspective
Authors

KOPEČEK Lubomír SVAČINOVÁ Petra

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Středoevropské politické studie
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web https://journals.muni.cz/cepsr/article/view/4415
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CEPSR.2015.2.178
Field Political sciences
Keywords ANO; Dawn of Direct Democracy; Andrej Babiš; Tomio Okamura; Business-Firm Party; Entrepreneurial Parties
Description This article focuses on a comparative analysis of the organization of contemporary Czech parliamentary parties. It emphasizes the structural and functional differences between the new parties — ANO (meaning “yes” in Czech) and Dawn of Direct Democracy — and older parties. The theoretical section presents the basic organizational types – in particular, the concept of the business firm party. The following organizational aspects of parties are compared: membership, form of funding, the role played by ground organizations, the position and composition of top party bodies, the role played by the party leader, and media resources. This analysis reveals that ANO and Dawn have a more exclusive membership than older parties and have centralized more power into the hands of the party leader, who is supported both by formal statutes and by informal mechanism. In the case of ANO, the central leadership dominates over lower - level ground organizations; Dawn forgoes them altogether. Its missing institutional base accelerated Dawn’s implosion in 2015. ANO is characterised by a high degree of professionalism and control over key media, both of which were missing in the case of Dawn.
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