The mapping of election results has long been a popular topic among cartographers, journalists, data scientists and infographic authors. However, their work usually concludes with simple visualizations single election, in most cases only the winning party is represented. Can we tell story political over two decades via maps? What were reasons for rise fall such party; our case Czech Social Democrats? Moreover, how changes voting patterns spatially distributed manifested? With paper, explore...

Cooperation in the delivery of public services is generally framed as desirable, but it often hindered by serious collective action problems. The article compares inter-municipal cooperation seven countries with different institutional settings. It investigates rules governance characterising these diverse settings and assesses how they deal multiple principal problem. authors find that almost all cases, participating municipalities are represented on supervisory board cooperative entity. In...

Even when robust competition becomes institutionalized for national elections in democracies, this is no guarantee that to subnational governments will be equally competitive there. This article documents a recent disconcerting worldwide return of "silent elections'' - electoral races which citizens are unable choose among political alternatives and their vote makes difference the outcome. Holding such uncontested clashes simultaneously with dual dimensions democratic government:...

Abstract The active involvement of citizens in decision-making processes via geoparticipatory spatial tools is becoming a popular research field among geographers, GIScientists, environmental psychologists, political scientists and many others. This paper presents the idea Index geoparticipation – an indicator-based index divided into three dimensions (communication, participation, transparency) that helps to evaluate state Czech municipalities. It describes current at municipality level...

The article analyses the results of 2021 general election in Czech Republic. was shaped by two major factors. First, it took place shadow Covid pandemic crisis. Second, Republic governed a cabinet dominated populist political party with unprecedented support from communist for most term. feature campaign formation and eventual victory anti-populist coalitions. brought about decrease electoral volatility fragmentation system. However, ideologically diverse coalitions is challenge to increased...

This contribution is a complex analysis of the geographic voting patterns in 2020 Slovak parliamentary election using methods such as Geographically Weighted Regression, Hierarchical Regression Models, and Ecological Inference. It focused on winner election, populist OĽaNO, loser, traditional left-wing SMER-SD – within context electoral support voter transition comparison to 2016 part 2019 presidential election. The article contributes underdeveloped discourse relating spatial political...

This article presents unique survey data focused on local democracy, political attitudes and participation. The main aim of the research was to understand relationships between values, participation, knowledge voting behavior at level. held autumn 2018 after elections in Czech Republic. are terms their focus politics combined with variables that standardly examined context national politics. dataset links fields directly related (local electoral behavior, non-electoral trust institutions...

This contribution offers an evaluation of subnational governance change in the Czech Republic context a domestic response to Europeanization dynamics employing both top-down and bottom-up approach. We do not find much evidence substantial empowerment regional level, but that central government is still gatekeeper. The regions have experienced centralized decentralized forms (temporal empowerment) EU's structural funds management. effect EU was constant, conditioned time by mediating factors...

Holding two second-order elections simultaneously is expected to increase electoral participation. We exploit a natural experiment in which one group of Czech precincts was “as if” randomly assigned holding subnational concurrently with senatorial ones. Using unique data set containing variables on more than thirteen thousand five between 2000 and 2016, we detect modest effect concurrency only the first election but no or inconsistent four subsequent contests. Furthermore, report strong...

The Czech 2020 regional elections were won by ANO, a party led prime minister Andrej Babiš. ANO received plurality of votes in 10 the 13 regions, but joined government only 3 them. This election report explains this puzzling outcome as result three main causes: national political polarization which facilitated coordination between fragmented opposition parties against winner, electoral collapse historical Left (the Social Democrats and Communists), profound shifts voter turnout key...

In times of economic crisis, municipalities have faced serious fiscal stress and had to implement responsive measures such as lowering operational costs, a hiring freeze or layoffs. Yet some cities even boost their bureaucratic apparatus. Based on empirical results Czech statutory cities, it is argued, that the main cause growth party fragmentation, government alternations weak mayors because post-communist administrations are affected by widespread patronage clientelism. Decline cutbacks...

There is an ongoing debate on how political parties that form coalition governments keep tabs each other during the drafting and negotiation of new bills. Our article complements existing studies focused parliamentary stage law-making by enriching current knowledge with analysis executive phase, where bills may be significantly changed before they are submitted to legislature. Contrary theoretical expectations, results based unique data from Czech Republic reveal which heavily altered phase...

This article examines the spatial factors that shaped 2021 parliamentary elections. Building on a great deal of research in electoral geography and analysis, it focused specific elements voting behaviour have not been previously studied, key time-specific map party system Employing quantitative approach to aggregate socio-demographic data, study maps dynamic by exploiting unique political situations were characterized competition between two blocs – centre-right coalitions, SPOLU Pirates...

Although there is a substantial difference in turnout between local and national elections, significant number of citizens are locally mobilised yet they do not vote elections. While some previous studies have predominantly attributed this pattern to municipal size, study ascertains that bound motives attitudinal factors also exert influence, independent the municipality size. The research reveals who report personal acquaintance with councillors express an overall satisfaction election...

After a general overview of the context 2023 election in Slova- kia, article provides detailed analysis electoral results and support for political parties. Using both aggregate individual level data, we show that were influenced by combination long-term features defin- ing voting behaviour Slovakia more recent trend including weaker ideological attachment increased importance leadership personality party preference. Also, it seems illib- eral mobilization may be traced dynamic shifts...

This Special Issue, titled “GIS for Spatial/Political Participation in the Decision-Making Processes of Local Administrations”, ISPRS International Journal Geo-Information is aimed at analysing state-of-the-art geoparticipatory tools citizen participation community decision-making processes, and suggesting effective implementation available local administrations [...]

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This article deals with the phenomenon of invalid voting which has appeared in regional elections Olomouc region Czech Republic. First, contemporary theories are introduced. Second, given hypotheses, include both institutional and socio-economic factors that, according to theories, contribute higher levels voting, tested. Statistical analysis such as linear regression is employed research. The dataset comprised municipalities (cases) were held. results show that associated concurrent...