Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on success and politics of the governing parties in countries of the Visegrád Group

This bachelor thesis focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the party systems and governing parties of the Visegrad Four in 2020 and 2021. Using comparative analysis, it examines this impact on opinion polls and elections, the level of digitalisation and the erosion of democracy. The paper is divided into three parts. In the first part, I explain the key concepts used for the analysis - good governance, quality of governance and adaptive or agile governance - and describe the methods and data used. In the second part, I describe the course of the pandemic through the lens of these concepts, and in the third part I answer the research questions established in the theoretical and methodological sections