KVALITA ŽIVOTA JAKO PREDIKTOR VOLEB PREZIDENTA ČESKA V LETECH 2013 A 2018
QUALITY OF LIFE AS THE PREDICTOR OF THE ELECTIONS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CZECHIA IN 2013 AND 2018

Author(s): František Murgaš
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, Present Times (2010 - today), Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: quality of life; election of president; geography of election;
Summary/Abstract: This paper is focused on the correlation of the quality of life and the elections of the President of the Czech Republic in 2013 and 2018. We explore the influence of quality of life on the choice of the president in context of the geographical approach, which is focused on voters. We are focusing on the two candidates who progressed to the second round of elections. Exploring the quality of life as an election predictor can be considered as a part of electoral geography, the essence of which is to investigate the spatial differentiation of voting behaviour. Considering two theoretical approaches in electoral geography, we chose to draw from a contextual approach focused on the characteristics of the space and its influence on voters. The hypothesis is formulated as: The quality of life was a conflict line during presidential elections in Czechia in 2013 and 2018. The aim of this article is to answer the question whether the quality of life can be considered as one of the predictors of the presidential election. It is apparent from the analysis of the effect of spatial differentiation of the quality of life on the results of the presidential elections and their correlation that the quality of life is a predictor of election results. The coefficient of correlation from the point of view of candidate Miloš Zeman reached -0.55, which implies that the better the quality of life in the district meant achieving the worse outcome for Zeman.

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