Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2)

Proportionality, Integration Effect, and Legitimacy of the Electoral System to the Czech Chamber of Representatives: A Simulation Study of the Impacts of D0146Hondt divisor, Imperiali Quota and Hare Quota

Filip Horák, Marek Antoš, Dan Sklenář, David Lacko

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 127-155 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.017  

Although the change in the electoral system used in elections to the Chamber of Deputies has attracted the attention of lawyers, political scientists, and sociologists, we still lack a comprehensive comparative analysis of the new system with the original one or other alternatives. The main reason for this is the lack of empirical data. This article overcomes this problem using a simulation of electoral results that correspond to the real Czech election environment. On the basis of this simulated dataset it is possible to generate generalisable conclusions about the proportionality, integration effect, and legitimacy of three electoral formulas: the...

Violence, Bias and People with Disabilities: An Introduction to Disablist Hate Crime Research

Václav Walach

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 157-185 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.012  

Violence against disabled people has recently been recognised as an important, albeit neglected research topic. Drawing attention to violence motivated by anti-disability bias, this article offers an introduction to research on disablist hate crime. First, it presents a conceptualisation of hate crime and explains such concepts as disablism and ableism. Second, it discusses the concept of disability/disablist hate crime and analyses four areas that reflect the multifaceted nature of disability hate crime research and the social applications of the concept, ranging from conceptual issues to empirical findings, to political implications. These issues...

Why Are Democracy and Oligarchy the Most Important ‘Constitutions’ in Aristotle’s View and How Do They Fundamentally Differ?

Miroslav Novák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 187-211 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.033  

According to Aristotle, democracy and oligarchy are empirically the most widespread and analytically fundamental ‘constitutions’. I analyse how in different places in his Politics Aristotle ‘positively’ defines and differentiates between democracy and oligarchy. At the same time, I substantiate in detail a new interpretation of Aristotle‘s view that significantly differs from the current interpretation. ‘Combining’ the elements, procedures, and principles of democracy and oligarchy gives rise to mixed 'constitutions', a special place among which is occupied by the politeia or republic, which is the best regime...

Sto let Václava Lamsera

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 213-216  

Neobyčejně krásná koncepce demokracie: polská aktualizace Masarykova politického myšlení

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 217-227 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.014  

Přemysl Houda: Nohavica a (jeho) naše malá válka

Stanislav Holubec

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 229-231  

Milan Hrubeš: Evropská unie v českém veřejném diskursu: (Re)konstrukce příběhu

Jana Rosenfeldová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 231-234