Economic, Social and Historical Determinants of Voting Patterns: In the 1990 and 1992 Parliamentary Elections in the Czech Republic

• Published in: Czech sociological review Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 209 - 228
• Main Author: Kostelecky, Tomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic 01-10-1994
• Subjects: Coefficients; Communism; Czech Republic; Economic Factors; Goodness of fit; Mathematical independent variables; Political parties; Regional Differences; Regression analysis; Regression coefficients; Social Factors; Social History; Variable coefficients; Voting; Voting Behavior; Voting patterns
• ISSN: 1210-3861

The transition from a centralised authoritative communist state to a pluralistic, liberal-democratic civic society is a global process consisting of a variety of individual changes. The common feature of these „transitions of subsystems“ is the growth in differences between individuals, groups of people, localities and different regions. The article focuses on the geography of the voting patterns in their mutual relationships with the geographies of the underlying explanatory factors. Special emphasis is placed on the examination of social, economic and historical factors. The differences between the 1990 and 1992 parliamentary election results are sought out in order to evaluate the changing significance of the individual explanatory factors.