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We demonstrate effects of political preferences on interpersonal interactions in the environment of the highly unstable and volatile party system of the Czech Republic. The effects of partisanship on interpersonal relations are compared to the effects of attitudes on a salient issue. Two experiments confirm the potential of political partisanship to affect the individual’s ingroup preferences and outgroup biases, which can influence willingness to converse with others in the context of an unstable party system. In a conjoint experiment, dis/agreement on immigration has comparable effects on interpersonal interactions. Avoidance of interactions with out-partisans is amplified when out-partisans talk about politics often. The patterns of ingroup preferences and outgroup biases are replicated in a trust game experiment. Both partisanship and immigration attitudes influence how subjects interact with others. Given the political context, the study provides a hard test of politically motivated ingroup and outgroup biases stemming both from party and policy preferences.

This study focuses on the communication styles of male and female candidates on Facebook during the 2017 parliamentary election campaign in the Czech Republic. It tests the assumption that female candidates engage in a more personal and interactive style of communication than male candidates. The Czech Republic provides a hard test of this hypothesis given that the electoral system poses weak incentives for candidates to run personal campaigns and the political culture exhibits strong gender stereotypes. We analyze the use of personalized content, technological disclosure, and interactivity in 1637 Facebook posts created by 227 candidates. The findings are in line with previous research and show that female candidates did not significantly differ from male candidates in the way they communicated on social networking sites (SNSs). The study extends our understanding of how communication styles are used in a political context. It suggests that politics presents a specific context which motivates politicians to pursue communication styles that overturn traditional stereotypes.

Negativita v mediich a důraz na osobnostni stranku politiky jsou casto zmiňovany jako novinařska praxe, ktera je skodliva pro kvalitu demokracie. Novinaři a medialni domy jsou casto obviňovani z toho, že preferuji zisk před kvalitou obsahu. Nas text se zaměřuje na analýzu poptavkove strany po negativitě a privatizaci zpravodajstvi. Za pomoci prostředi Dynamic Process Tracing Environment (DPTE) testujeme předpoklad, že obě tyto charakteristiky medialniho pokrývani udalosti mohou být povzbuzovany poptavkou konzumentů. Jejich preferenci negativnich zprav jsme potvrdili, větsi zajem o soukromi politiků než o jejich veřejnou roli vsak nikoliv. Politicke zpravy byly sice preferovanějsi, ale soukrome naopak vice zapamatovavany. Toto zjistěni může mit význam pro dalsi výzkum politických postojů.

This article examines a content analysis of the televised political debates prior to the 2012 elections in Slovakia. The analysis is based on the functional theory of campaign discourse by William L. Benoit. The goal of the work is to test the theory and its applicability in contexts other than the political system of the United States. In order to achieve this goal, we also make use of the findings of previous studies from the non-American environment. We have found that if Benoit’s methods were strictly observed, more than 30% of the content of debates would not be included in the analysis. Therefore, its original categories of content analysis should be expanded. The Slovak debates differ markedly from the American model, but at the same time differ from the kind of debates found in a consensual political system. The area of the greatest difference is the use of various models of discursive functions in the debates.

Clanek se zabýva vlivem předvolebnich průzkumů na medialni pokryti jednotlivých politických akterů před volbami. S využitim teorie o sturkturalni předpojatosti medii a Zallerovy teorie medialni politiky se zabýva tim, jak novinaři reportuji o politických stranach a jejich reprezentantech v průběhu volebi kampaně.