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IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca Lucca, Italy The Cost of Partitocracy: Party Funding in East Central Europe PhD Program in Political Systems and Institutional Change XXV Cycle By Vit Simral 2014 Reviewers Page The dissertation of Vit Simral is approved. Programme Coordinator: Giovanni Orsina, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy Supervisor: Leonardo Morlino, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy Tutor: Stefano Gattei, IMT Lucca, Italy The dissertation of Vit Simral has been reviwed by: Alenka Krašovec, PhD, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Michael Smith, PhD, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca 2014 Table of Contents Table of contents ........................................................................................ 5 Acknowledgements .................................................................................. 6 Vita and publications ................................................................................ 7 Abstract ..................................................................................................... 10 Chapter 1: Introduction .......................................................................... 12 Chapter 2: Major Concepts and Arguments in Literature ............... 16 Chapter 3: Minor Concepts and Research Objectives ....................... 29 Chapter 4: Methodology ........................................................................ 38 Chapter 5: Rules....................................................................................... 49 Chapter 6: Party Budgets ....................................................................... 66 Chapter 7: Strategies ............................................................................... 98 Chapter 8: Conclusion .......................................................................... 116 Appendix A: Questionnaire ................................................................ 119 Bibliography ........................................................................................... 125 5 Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to thank my supervisor and teacher at IMT Lucca, prof. Leonardo Morlino. Prof Morlino’s classes in Lucca were among the most inspiring I have ever attended (and I attended over the years a terrible lot) and I will remain always grateful for his kind supervision over my first and later steps in the research project on party funding. Second, my gratitude also belongs my tutor, Prof Stefano Gattei, and to other teachers at IMT Lucca who in 2010 and 2011 instructed me on various subjects, from mathematics, statistics, game theory, through constitutional law, political philosophy and the philosophy of science to party studies, study of democratisation and political history. The teachers‘ approach was always professional and demanding, but they all, without exception, showed a great understanding of students‘ wishes and needs. Third, I am thankful to the two reviewers of this thesis, Prof Alenka Krašovec from the University of Ljubljana and Dr Michael Smith from CERGE-EI Prague, who kindly agreed to read this work and comment on it. I hope they did not later regret their decision. Last but not least, my thanks go to the administrative staff of IMT Lucca, from the members of the PhD office, through Facilities and the Directorate, to the IMT Library. The compassion shown by teachers and professors at the school was matched only by the compassion shown by its non-faculty employees. Without their help and aid in times of real need, I would finish neither my study period at IMT, nor my thesis, and they fully share in the good that my research project should bring to this world. All the bad is solely my responsibility. 6 Vita and publications Vit Simral b. 1986, Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic Education Mgr., Historical Sociology (January 2013) Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Thesis: The Modernity Cleavage: Party Politics in Inter-Civilisational Encounters Bachelor of Laws, LL. B. (September 2010) Faculty of Law, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Rigorous Examination, PhDr., Political Science (June 2009) Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Mgr., Political Science (January 2009) Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Thesis: Kings, Knights and Pawns: Political Struggles in Czechoslovakia. 1948-1989 Bc., Humanities (June 2007) • Political Science (Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno) • History (Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno) Thesis: An Integrative Approach to Transitions in East Central Europe Relevant Professional Experience InvEast, s.r.o., Co-founder and CEO (March 2014 – present) Main responsibilities: heading a consulting company (8 employees) in the field of SMEs competitive intelligence support and advisory on EU funds International Association for Political Science Students, Head of Academics (October 2014 – present) Main responsibilities: heading a team of 60 people that publishes three academic journals, a research blog and analyses by a think thank, organizing two academic conferences per year Politikon, Academic journal of the International Association for Political Science Students, Editor-in-Chief (March 2014 – September 2014) Main responsibilities: proposing journal policy, creating authors’ guidelines, managing reviews and referees database, training of referees Transparency International Österreich, Analyst (September 2013 – February 2014) Main responsibilities: gathering data and primary analysis in project “Parteienfinanzierung in Österreich“, news monitoring and analysis in project “United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)“ 7 Scouting 4 Peace Foundation, Administrator of Child Protection (November 2008 – January 2010) Main responsibilities: outlining & implementing child-protection policy, providing legal training and advice to members of Scouting 4 Peace network, communication & coordination with other (non-) scout organizations in the field of child protection B&M InterNets Brno, s. r. o., Analyst (October 2006 – February 2007) Main responsibilities: creating multi-variation model for analysis of political preferences, statistical data gathering, data analysis Appreciation of Science Community Moritz Csáky Fellowship, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Austria (October 2013) Prize for the 1st Place in the I. A. Blaha Competition, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (May 2007) for the Best Student Scientific Work in the fields of Political Science / International Relations Prize for the 1st Place in the I. A. Blaha Competition, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (May 2006) for the Best Student Scientific Work in the fields of Political Science / International Relations Selected Publications & Invited Scholarly Papers “Why They Act: A Multi-Method Approach Towards Party Regulations Reforms.” Chapter in Proceedings of the IAPSS Academic Conference, Ibidem Verlag, November 2014. “The Habsburg Legacy: Rokkanian perspectives on East Central European politics between the two wars.” Review of History and Political Science, Vol 2(2), June 2014. “Party Funding of Regional Electoral Campaigns” [Stranické financování krajských předvolebních kampaní] in Balík, Stanislav et al. 2013. Czech Regional Elections 2012 [Krajské volby 2012]. Brno: Masaryk University Press. The Multi-Level Process of Party Funding Reforms. Paper presented at the Joint CISS/KEYNOTE Conference, Prague, June 2012. Formateurs and Cabinet Formation in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe. Paper presented at the 2nd European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Berlin, June 2012. “Westernisation, Rationalisation, Amalgamation: Party Politics in Intercivilisational Encounters.” Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, Voume 3(9) April 2012. “The Games of the Velvet Revolution: An Integrative Approach to the Transition in Czechoslovakia 1989.” In: Bhambry, T and Griffin, C and Hjelm, JTO and Nicholson, C and Voronina, OG, (eds.) Perpetual Motion? Transformation and Transition in Central and Eastern Europe & Russia. (pp. pp. 115-133). School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL: London, UK, June 2011. 8 “Czechoslovakia 1989 and the Rational Choice Theory: A General Model of Regime Change.” Czech Journal of Political Science, Vol 18(3), Fall 2009. Review: Tiemann, Guido: Wahlsysteme, Parteiensysteme und politische Repräsentation in Osteuropa. European Electoral Studies, Vol 4(1), Spring 2009. The Protest of the Bohemian Nobles Against the Burning of John Huss, by the Sentence of the Council of Constance, 2nd September 1415: Czech Heraldry in the Middle Ages. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the East Midlands Heraldry Society, Leicester, November 2008. “The Neo-Naturalism of Lon Fuller and International Justice [Neo-naturalismus Lona Fullera a nadnárodní spravedlnost].” Global Politics, International Institute of Political Science, Brno, May 2008. “Territorialization of the electoral support in expert models of electoral prediction in Canada and the United Kingdom [Teritorializace volební podpory v expertních modelech volební predikce v Kanadě a Spojeném království].” European Electoral Studies, Vol 3(1) Spring 2008. 9 Abstract The work’s goal is to contribute to the discussion on cartelisation in the party systems of East Central Europe. Its contribution to the research field is to be found in a thorough analysis of the budgets of political parties in