Lukáš Linek
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lukáš Linek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lukáš |
| FAMILY NAME | Linek |
| SIGNATURE | LINEK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8671-2778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The negative effect of state funding on electoral support of new parties in post-communist countries
Does state funding of parties lead to petrification of the party systems with very few new parties, or to competition that is more open where new parties proliferate? According to the cartel party thesis, the provision of state funding leads to the establishment of barriers to the entry of new parties. In contrast, strategic entry theory posits that state funding represents an electoral benefit and thus reduces the costs of entry; as a result, th…
Media effects on preferential voting in a flexible-list PR system
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Does democratic satisfaction drive voter turnout, or does voting increase satisfaction with democracy? This paper explores the satisfaction-participation nexus in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), where democratic dissatisfaction is prominent. It tests preregistered hypotheses using a five-wave panel survey from the Czech 2023 presidential election and a pooled dataset from five CEE countries. Unlike previous studies from Western Europe, it finds…
Development of new party support in post-communist Europe and the effect of the 2008 economic crisis
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation
Heterogeneity in the effects of resources, proximity, and identity on preference voting in PR systems
The institutional design of the Czech Republic's flexible-list PR system with optional preference voting allows us to examine not only who casts preference votes, but also how voters allocate preference votes to candidates on the party ballot. Drawing on the resources, proximity and identity models, we first examine how these voter attributes impact the decision to cast preference votes or not. However, their effect is usually not significant. Th…
Beyond the second-order national elections model
Literature provides four basic theories to explain regional election results and how they differ from national patterns: authority of regional governments, ethnic or linguistic cleavages, congruence of national and regional electoral systems, and second-order election effects. The second-order national election theory explains why regional elections exhibit lower turnout levels, why government parties lose voter support, and why opposition, minor…
The Decline of the Party and the Rise of Party Leaders? The Personalisation of Voting Behaviour in the Czech Republic
The aim of this article is to analyse the personalisation of Czech voters' behaviour during the last two decades. This study examines if the effect of party leaders on party choice has increased as the vote personalisation literature suggests. Alternative explanations of party choice emphasise the stable role of cleavages and left-right orientation, leaving limited space for leadership effects and their growth. In addition, this paper also tests …
Parliamentary Activity, Re-Selection and the Personal Vote. Evidence from Flexible-List Systems
In this article, we analyse how the degree of parliamentary activity affects both individual MPs’ performance in the candidate selection process within the party and their popularity with voters at the electoral stage. We expect that parliamentary work of MPs matters less for voters’ evaluations of MPs because of limited monitoring capacities and lower salience attached to this type of representation. The empirical analysis uses data from recent …
Defence, Acquisition or Non-Competition? How Did the Form and Intensity of Czech Party Competition Change between 2006 and 2014
This article seeks to examine changes in Czech party competition between 2006 and 2014. Drawing on Sani and Sartori's concept of party competition, it incorporates later findings on the nature of party competition to facilitate the concept's application to fluid party systems. It conceptualises party competition as multi-dimensional and according to the (a) salience the individual dimensions used in this analysis have for political parties and (b…
What's past is prologue, or is it? Generational effects on voter turnout in post-communist countries, 1990-2013
The parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, October 2013
Organising Democratic Choice
Organising Democratic Choice: Party Representation over Time." West European Politics, 37(1), pp. 230–231
Czech Republic
Why Did Voter Turnout in the Czech General Elections Change between 1996 and 2010
The aim of this study is to explain why turnout in Czech general elections exhibited considerable variation between 1996 and 2010. Using valence theory this article explores the differential turnout in terms of the expected benefits of voting for a party on the basis of valence and policy considerations. This individual-level analysis of electoral participation employs four post-election surveys and uses an alternative operationalisation of the e…
Representative versus Responsible Government and May's Law
The representative vs responsible government thesis of Peter Mair argues that one of the main causes of the weakening of democracy is the increasing tension between the representative and governance functions performed by parties. The consequences of this widening gap in roles are increasingly evident, however, little is known about the intra-party foundations of this trend. This study using May's law and a theoretically informed case study of th…
Party System Nationalisation and Non-uniform Vote Switching. Evidence from the Czech Republic
National rather than regional party systems are the norm in most democratic states. This has been interpreted as meaning that most voters view inter-party competition in the same way. With a high level of party system nationalisation the relative proportion of electoral support attracted by parties across all constituencies tends to be very similar although the absolute level of party support changes across elections. Sociological and institution…
Czech Republic
Searching for the Right Organization
The article examines four centre—right parties in East-Central Europe in order to assess the impact of ideology on party organization and revisit the thesis of organizational weakness in the region. The data collected indicate that, together with electoral success, inherited resources and national context, ideology does indeed shape the style of organization. Centre—right parties, as opposed to leftist parties, tend to be less bureaucratized, hav…
Low Membership in Czech Political Parties
Political parties in the post-communist countries are said to focus on electoral strategies and not on organization building, which is thought to explain the low membership base of these parties. However, detailed examination of Czech political parties suggests that political parties facing an environment that was hostile to organized partisanship adapted their organizational strategies to make party membership more attractive. Even though they e…
The Parliament of the Czech Republic, 1993–2004
The first decade of the Czech democratic parliament has seen the development of a newly conceptualised, bicameral parliament in a new state. We identify general tendencies towards stabilisation similar to Western European parliamentary practices. Another trend is the gradual change from organising the parliament according to the majority principle to that of consensus. There is also a long-term clash over the powers of the Senate and a gradual er…
Political data in 2005
Czech Republic
Why Czech Parliamentary Party Groups Vote Less Unitedly. The Role of Frequent Voting and Big Majorities in Passing Bills
The article aims to explain voting unity in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic based on data from the years 1998-2002. It introduces the basic terminology and theoretical framework used in literature on the behaviour of parties in parliament and the basic institutional rules that should result in the unity of political parties in the Czech parliament. It then presents the data used to measure the unity of Czech parlia…
Surveys of MPs and Senators in the Parliament of the Czech Republic between 1993 and 2005
The article provides an overview of the surveys conducted among MPs of the Czech parliament between 1993 and 2005. It describes seven surveys conducted among MPs in the Chamber of Deputies and one survey among members of the Senate. Particularly in the early 1990s such surveys were conducted or at least run and financed by researchers from outside the Czech Republic. These surveys are characterised from the perspective of the content of the obser…
Parliamentary Activity, Re-Selection and the Personal Vote. Evidence from Flexible-List Systems
In this article, we analyse how the degree of parliamentary activity affects both individual MPs’ performance in the candidate selection process within the party and their popularity with voters at the electoral stage. We expect that parliamentary work of MPs matters less for voters’ evaluations of MPs because of limited monitoring capacities and lower salience attached to this type of representation. The empirical analysis uses data from recent …
Searching for the Right Organization
The article examines four centre—right parties in East-Central Europe in order to assess the impact of ideology on party organization and revisit the thesis of organizational weakness in the region. The data collected indicate that, together with electoral success, inherited resources and national context, ideology does indeed shape the style of organization. Centre—right parties, as opposed to leftist parties, tend to be less bureaucratized, hav…
The Parliament of the Czech Republic, 1993–2004
The first decade of the Czech democratic parliament has seen the development of a newly conceptualised, bicameral parliament in a new state. We identify general tendencies towards stabilisation similar to Western European parliamentary practices. Another trend is the gradual change from organising the parliament according to the majority principle to that of consensus. There is also a long-term clash over the powers of the Senate and a gradual er…
What's past is prologue, or is it? Generational effects on voter turnout in post-communist countries, 1990-2013
Czech Republic
The parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, October 2013
Why Czech Parliamentary Party Groups Vote Less Unitedly. The Role of Frequent Voting and Big Majorities in Passing Bills
The article aims to explain voting unity in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic based on data from the years 1998-2002. It introduces the basic terminology and theoretical framework used in literature on the behaviour of parties in parliament and the basic institutional rules that should result in the unity of political parties in the Czech parliament. It then presents the data used to measure the unity of Czech parlia…
Czech Republic
Political data in 2005
Low Membership in Czech Political Parties
Political parties in the post-communist countries are said to focus on electoral strategies and not on organization building, which is thought to explain the low membership base of these parties. However, detailed examination of Czech political parties suggests that political parties facing an environment that was hostile to organized partisanship adapted their organizational strategies to make party membership more attractive. Even though they e…
Defence, Acquisition or Non-Competition? How Did the Form and Intensity of Czech Party Competition Change between 2006 and 2014
This article seeks to examine changes in Czech party competition between 2006 and 2014. Drawing on Sani and Sartori's concept of party competition, it incorporates later findings on the nature of party competition to facilitate the concept's application to fluid party systems. It conceptualises party competition as multi-dimensional and according to the (a) salience the individual dimensions used in this analysis have for political parties and (b…
Party System Nationalisation and Non-uniform Vote Switching. Evidence from the Czech Republic
National rather than regional party systems are the norm in most democratic states. This has been interpreted as meaning that most voters view inter-party competition in the same way. With a high level of party system nationalisation the relative proportion of electoral support attracted by parties across all constituencies tends to be very similar although the absolute level of party support changes across elections. Sociological and institution…
The Decline of the Party and the Rise of Party Leaders? The Personalisation of Voting Behaviour in the Czech Republic
The aim of this article is to analyse the personalisation of Czech voters' behaviour during the last two decades. This study examines if the effect of party leaders on party choice has increased as the vote personalisation literature suggests. Alternative explanations of party choice emphasise the stable role of cleavages and left-right orientation, leaving limited space for leadership effects and their growth. In addition, this paper also tests …
Development of new party support in post-communist Europe and the effect of the 2008 economic crisis
Beyond the second-order national elections model
Literature provides four basic theories to explain regional election results and how they differ from national patterns: authority of regional governments, ethnic or linguistic cleavages, congruence of national and regional electoral systems, and second-order election effects. The second-order national election theory explains why regional elections exhibit lower turnout levels, why government parties lose voter support, and why opposition, minor…
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Does democratic satisfaction drive voter turnout, or does voting increase satisfaction with democracy? This paper explores the satisfaction-participation nexus in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), where democratic dissatisfaction is prominent. It tests preregistered hypotheses using a five-wave panel survey from the Czech 2023 presidential election and a pooled dataset from five CEE countries. Unlike previous studies from Western Europe, it finds…
Heterogeneity in the effects of resources, proximity, and identity on preference voting in PR systems
The institutional design of the Czech Republic's flexible-list PR system with optional preference voting allows us to examine not only who casts preference votes, but also how voters allocate preference votes to candidates on the party ballot. Drawing on the resources, proximity and identity models, we first examine how these voter attributes impact the decision to cast preference votes or not. However, their effect is usually not significant. Th…
Why Did Voter Turnout in the Czech General Elections Change between 1996 and 2010
The aim of this study is to explain why turnout in Czech general elections exhibited considerable variation between 1996 and 2010. Using valence theory this article explores the differential turnout in terms of the expected benefits of voting for a party on the basis of valence and policy considerations. This individual-level analysis of electoral participation employs four post-election surveys and uses an alternative operationalisation of the e…
Representative versus Responsible Government and May's Law
The representative vs responsible government thesis of Peter Mair argues that one of the main causes of the weakening of democracy is the increasing tension between the representative and governance functions performed by parties. The consequences of this widening gap in roles are increasingly evident, however, little is known about the intra-party foundations of this trend. This study using May's law and a theoretically informed case study of th…
Surveys of MPs and Senators in the Parliament of the Czech Republic between 1993 and 2005
The article provides an overview of the surveys conducted among MPs of the Czech parliament between 1993 and 2005. It describes seven surveys conducted among MPs in the Chamber of Deputies and one survey among members of the Senate. Particularly in the early 1990s such surveys were conducted or at least run and financed by researchers from outside the Czech Republic. These surveys are characterised from the perspective of the content of the obser…
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Why Czech Parliamentary Party Groups Vote Less Unitedly. The Role of Frequent Voting and Big Majorities in Passing Bills
The article aims to explain voting unity in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic based on data from the years 1998-2002. It introduces the basic terminology and theoretical framework used in literature on the behaviour of parties in parliament and the basic institutional rules that should result in the unity of political parties in the Czech parliament. It then presents the data used to measure the unity of Czech parlia…
Surveys of MPs and Senators in the Parliament of the Czech Republic between 1993 and 2005
The article provides an overview of the surveys conducted among MPs of the Czech parliament between 1993 and 2005. It describes seven surveys conducted among MPs in the Chamber of Deputies and one survey among members of the Senate. Particularly in the early 1990s such surveys were conducted or at least run and financed by researchers from outside the Czech Republic. These surveys are characterised from the perspective of the content of the obser…
Political data in 2005
Czech Republic
Low Membership in Czech Political Parties
Political parties in the post-communist countries are said to focus on electoral strategies and not on organization building, which is thought to explain the low membership base of these parties. However, detailed examination of Czech political parties suggests that political parties facing an environment that was hostile to organized partisanship adapted their organizational strategies to make party membership more attractive. Even though they e…
The Parliament of the Czech Republic, 1993–2004
The first decade of the Czech democratic parliament has seen the development of a newly conceptualised, bicameral parliament in a new state. We identify general tendencies towards stabilisation similar to Western European parliamentary practices. Another trend is the gradual change from organising the parliament according to the majority principle to that of consensus. There is also a long-term clash over the powers of the Senate and a gradual er…
Searching for the Right Organization
The article examines four centre—right parties in East-Central Europe in order to assess the impact of ideology on party organization and revisit the thesis of organizational weakness in the region. The data collected indicate that, together with electoral success, inherited resources and national context, ideology does indeed shape the style of organization. Centre—right parties, as opposed to leftist parties, tend to be less bureaucratized, hav…
Party System Nationalisation and Non-uniform Vote Switching. Evidence from the Czech Republic
National rather than regional party systems are the norm in most democratic states. This has been interpreted as meaning that most voters view inter-party competition in the same way. With a high level of party system nationalisation the relative proportion of electoral support attracted by parties across all constituencies tends to be very similar although the absolute level of party support changes across elections. Sociological and institution…
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Why Did Voter Turnout in the Czech General Elections Change between 1996 and 2010
The aim of this study is to explain why turnout in Czech general elections exhibited considerable variation between 1996 and 2010. Using valence theory this article explores the differential turnout in terms of the expected benefits of voting for a party on the basis of valence and policy considerations. This individual-level analysis of electoral participation employs four post-election surveys and uses an alternative operationalisation of the e…
Representative versus Responsible Government and May's Law
The representative vs responsible government thesis of Peter Mair argues that one of the main causes of the weakening of democracy is the increasing tension between the representative and governance functions performed by parties. The consequences of this widening gap in roles are increasingly evident, however, little is known about the intra-party foundations of this trend. This study using May's law and a theoretically informed case study of th…
Organising Democratic Choice
Organising Democratic Choice: Party Representation over Time." West European Politics, 37(1), pp. 230–231
The parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, October 2013
Defence, Acquisition or Non-Competition? How Did the Form and Intensity of Czech Party Competition Change between 2006 and 2014
This article seeks to examine changes in Czech party competition between 2006 and 2014. Drawing on Sani and Sartori's concept of party competition, it incorporates later findings on the nature of party competition to facilitate the concept's application to fluid party systems. It conceptualises party competition as multi-dimensional and according to the (a) salience the individual dimensions used in this analysis have for political parties and (b…
What's past is prologue, or is it? Generational effects on voter turnout in post-communist countries, 1990-2013
The Decline of the Party and the Rise of Party Leaders? The Personalisation of Voting Behaviour in the Czech Republic
The aim of this article is to analyse the personalisation of Czech voters' behaviour during the last two decades. This study examines if the effect of party leaders on party choice has increased as the vote personalisation literature suggests. Alternative explanations of party choice emphasise the stable role of cleavages and left-right orientation, leaving limited space for leadership effects and their growth. In addition, this paper also tests …
Parliamentary Activity, Re-Selection and the Personal Vote. Evidence from Flexible-List Systems
In this article, we analyse how the degree of parliamentary activity affects both individual MPs’ performance in the candidate selection process within the party and their popularity with voters at the electoral stage. We expect that parliamentary work of MPs matters less for voters’ evaluations of MPs because of limited monitoring capacities and lower salience attached to this type of representation. The empirical analysis uses data from recent …
Beyond the second-order national elections model
Literature provides four basic theories to explain regional election results and how they differ from national patterns: authority of regional governments, ethnic or linguistic cleavages, congruence of national and regional electoral systems, and second-order election effects. The second-order national election theory explains why regional elections exhibit lower turnout levels, why government parties lose voter support, and why opposition, minor…
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation
Heterogeneity in the effects of resources, proximity, and identity on preference voting in PR systems
The institutional design of the Czech Republic's flexible-list PR system with optional preference voting allows us to examine not only who casts preference votes, but also how voters allocate preference votes to candidates on the party ballot. Drawing on the resources, proximity and identity models, we first examine how these voter attributes impact the decision to cast preference votes or not. However, their effect is usually not significant. Th…
The negative effect of state funding on electoral support of new parties in post-communist countries
Does state funding of parties lead to petrification of the party systems with very few new parties, or to competition that is more open where new parties proliferate? According to the cartel party thesis, the provision of state funding leads to the establishment of barriers to the entry of new parties. In contrast, strategic entry theory posits that state funding represents an electoral benefit and thus reduces the costs of entry; as a result, th…
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