The Czech Party System Change since 2010: From Fragile Stability to Stable Fragility
The Czech Party System Change since 2010: From Fragile Stability to Stable Fragility

Summary/Abstract: Paper deals with the question of the party system change in the Czech Republic since the 2010 parliamentary elections. Although at least since the mid-1990s, the Czech party system has been considered more-or-less structured and one of the most stable party systems among the CEE countries, by the 2010 parliamentary elections the situation changed. Since then, the Czech party system is undergoing a process of a major transformation. The main sources of this transformation were a significant change of voter behaviour in the 2010 and 2013 parliamentary elections (especially an erosion of voter support for established parties and the voter´s shift towards new parties) and an inability of established parties to respond to this change. The main goal of the analysis that is designed as a descriptive case study is to describe the nature and intensity of the party system change since 2010 in the Czech Republic, even with the use of selected quantitative analytical tools, commonly used in electoral analyzes in the current comparative-political science research (volatility, effective number of parties).

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