Business‑Firm Parties and the Czech Party System after 2010

Petr Just; Jakub Charvát

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Business‑Firm Parties and the Czech Party System after 2010

Politics in Central Europe

Volume 12 (2016): Issue 3 (December 2016)

By: Petr Just and Jakub Charvát

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|Feb 2017

Abstract

The case study presented in this paper applies the business-firm party concept to two political entities active in the Czech party system after 2010: the Public Affairs Party (VV) and the Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO 2011) movement. We assess whether these actors meet the criteria of the business-firm party model and, thus, whether they can be considered representatives of this type of political party in the Czech Republic. The study concludes with a comparison of VV and ANO 2011 as two possible variations on what is known as the business-firm party model.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pce-2016-0018 | Journal eISSN: 2787-9038 | Journal ISSN: 1801-3422

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Keywords:

Czech Republic,

party politics,

business firm party,

entrepreneurial party,

Public Affairs Party,

ANO 2011

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