2013 General Election

This book, by a team of authors from the Department of Political Science and the International Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, provides a comprehensive analysis of the 2013 elections to the Chamber of Deputies, which were exceptional for several reasons. The calling of these elections was the culmination of a political crisis linked to the fall of Petr Nečas's government, and the unexpected nature of the snap elections gave political parties only limited time to prepare their election manifestos, develop campaign strategies, and compile candidate lists. The election results themselves can be characterised primarily by continued destabilisation, involving a record decline in support for established parties and the emergence of new ones. The monograph offers a detailed analysis of the election campaigns, the political parties' platforms, and the election results.