Political Networks in the Czech Republic

Abstract

The bulk of political science research in the Czech Republic uses substantivist perspective that understands social world through autonomous actors with certain properties and their interactions. This approach neglects relationships through which actors’ identities and actions are constituted and regulated. In contrast, relational perspective focuses on how relationships and stories embed agency in sociocultural contexts. Social network analysis (SNA) as a theory and methodological framework then provides a wide range of tools that allow to uncover and explain these relational patterns. The panel aims to add to this effort and presents current SNA research on various aspects of Czech politics, be it a discourse networks of climate change media coverage, organizational networks of inter-parliamentary groups, movement networks, or hidden networks of actors involved in Nagy-Gate affair.

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