České politické strany v policy prostoru
| Title in English | Czech Political Parties in the Policy Space |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociologicky casopis/Czech Sociological Review |
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| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | policy space; distance; conflict dimension; party system; top-down approach |
| Description | This article is based on a top-down approach to investigating political interactions between parties and voters and introduces the policy-space perspective into this approach. After providing an overview of existing scholarship on policy-space perspective in Czech politics, the article introduces and discusses a substantive and methodological decision that must be made in this type of research. The empirical part of the article replicates key aspects of Kenneth Benoit’s and Michael Laver’s study mapping policy spaces in modern democracies. The article employs as yet unpublished data from a late 2008 expert panel on the political positions of Czech parliamentary political parties. On the basis of this data the article seeks to answer the following research questions: What is the character of the Czech policy space? What is the relationship between substantive policy dimensions and the synthetic right-left dimension? What additional potential does mapping the policy space offer in comparison with research based on other premises? |
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