The Crisis of the Czech Politics 25 Years after the Velvet Revolution

Abstract

In terms of political performance the Czech Republic of the 1990s was considered as a very successful post‑communist country. Today’s situation is different. The Czech Republic felt into deep political inefficiency. This paper aims to show the core and causes of the current crisis of the Czech politics. It briefly introduces the rather temporary and circumstantial success of the Czech politics in the 1990s. Then it analyzes the onset of the crisis as well as reasons, which led to a deterioration of the Czech politics at the turn of the 21st century. It recognizes three essential dimensions of the Czech political inefficiency: a crisis of confidence when it comes to politics, a crisis of the Czech party system and the weakness of the Czech parliamentary regime.

Keywords

• Czech Republic
• political crisis and inefficiency
• confidence in politics
• parties and party system
• parliamentary regime