Development of czech party system: 1992-1996

This work analyzes the development of the Czech party system in 1992 - 1996. Before November 1989, an undemocratic communist regime ruled in Czechoslovakia, disallowing the functioning of other political subjects. Following the collapse of this regime, the structure of new political parties began to crystallize. At the end of the electoral period 1992 - 1996 there was a natural reduction in the number of political parties. The aim is to determine the category of the party system which corresponds to the situation in the Czech lands. The beginning of this work presents theoretical concepts on which the analysis is based of the Czech party system. Here, the most important is the theoretical concept of party systems by political scientist Giovanni Sartori. The next part describes the period preceding the elections in 1992, followed by a chapter on political parties after the fall of the communist regime. The last chapter deals with the analysis of the party system. The development of the Czech party system is viewed from multiple perspectives that mutually correspond (election results in 1992 and 1996, changes in political groups, changes in voter preferences). In this chapter, several pages are devoted to the representation of cleavages according to the concept by Stein Rokkan and Seymour M. Lipset in the..