Michael Škvrňák
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4377154 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Škvrňák |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Škvrňák |
| ASSINATURA | ŠKVRŇÁK M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4647-4095 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
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…
Residual Income and Mental Health
Financial shocks are associated with mental health. Most studies analyze this relationship using changes in income. This study examines whether a novel measure that captures the joint effect of income and expenditure—residual income—predicts reported symptoms of depression and anxiety more accurately than income alone. Residual income is defined as the amount of income remaining at the end of the month after covering expenses. Using a representat…
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
No coalition is an island
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…
Detecting Ottokar II’s 1248–1249 uprising and its instigators in co-witnessing networks
We provide a detailed case study showing how social network analysis allows scholars to detect an event affecting the entire historical network under consideration and identify the responsible actors. We study the middle 13th century in Czech lands, where a rigid political structure of noble families surrounding the monarchs led to the uprising of part of the nobility. Having collected data on approximately 2,400 noblemen from 576 charters, we at…
You’ll never rule alone
The research on coalition formation has used the abundance of local-level data to test the classical theories of coalition formation. I take the classical theories as a baseline and supplement them with additional factors related to how political agents are embedded in the local community. In particular, I investigate how the social capital of elected councillors attained in local football clubs and the membership bases of local party branches af…
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…
Detecting Ottokar II’s 1248–1249 uprising and its instigators in co-witnessing networks
We provide a detailed case study showing how social network analysis allows scholars to detect an event affecting the entire historical network under consideration and identify the responsible actors. We study the middle 13th century in Czech lands, where a rigid political structure of noble families surrounding the monarchs led to the uprising of part of the nobility. Having collected data on approximately 2,400 noblemen from 576 charters, we at…
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…
No coalition is an island
You’ll never rule alone
The research on coalition formation has used the abundance of local-level data to test the classical theories of coalition formation. I take the classical theories as a baseline and supplement them with additional factors related to how political agents are embedded in the local community. In particular, I investigate how the social capital of elected councillors attained in local football clubs and the membership bases of local party branches af…
You’ll never rule alone
The research on coalition formation has used the abundance of local-level data to test the classical theories of coalition formation. I take the classical theories as a baseline and supplement them with additional factors related to how political agents are embedded in the local community. In particular, I investigate how the social capital of elected councillors attained in local football clubs and the membership bases of local party branches af…
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…
Detecting Ottokar II’s 1248–1249 uprising and its instigators in co-witnessing networks
We provide a detailed case study showing how social network analysis allows scholars to detect an event affecting the entire historical network under consideration and identify the responsible actors. We study the middle 13th century in Czech lands, where a rigid political structure of noble families surrounding the monarchs led to the uprising of part of the nobility. Having collected data on approximately 2,400 noblemen from 576 charters, we at…
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…
Residual Income and Mental Health
Financial shocks are associated with mental health. Most studies analyze this relationship using changes in income. This study examines whether a novel measure that captures the joint effect of income and expenditure—residual income—predicts reported symptoms of depression and anxiety more accurately than income alone. Residual income is defined as the amount of income remaining at the end of the month after covering expenses. Using a representat…
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
No coalition is an island
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