Economic Policy in Electoral Platforms of the Czech Political Parties in 2017

The goal of this thesis is to examine eligibility of the predictions of coalitions in the Chamber of Deputies in Czech Republic based on the economic electoral platforms. A data set for the years 2013 and 2017 is used based on the questions and answers from voting advice application www.volebnikalkulacka.cz. Using principal component analysis a 2-D political space is defined and for each of the two election years four methods of coalition prediction are used and compared. The results show that indeed coalitions are partly made based on the economics platforms with other condition being also relevant. Keywords Game theory, Coalition creation, Principal component analysis, Spatial analy- sis, Electoral platforms, Chamber of Deputies