Democracy, Civic Society

17 % of Czech citizens would agree with return to the communist way of government, 15 % would approve authoritarian regime of strong leader with no parliament and with no elections, while three quarters of public disagree. Only 3% of Czechs think that the country should be governed by military, 93% dismissed such an idea.

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This year, it will be twenty-five years since the Velvet Revolution. On the occasion of this anniversary, Public Opinion Research Centre and Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava in cooperation with Focus agency investigated public opinion regarding the Velvet Revolution, changes in the political and economic system in general and in different areas of life. This press release contains comparison of Czech and Slovak citizens' opinion about several things related to this topic.

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In early February 2014, the Public Opinion Research Center conducted a survey on attitudes of citizens of the Czech Republic concerning equality and fairness in the political system, and respect for human rights.

In February 2014 Public Opinion Research Centre investigated how citizens evaluate the system change, which occurred in 1989. In January or February of this year under the umbrella of CEORG a comparable research was done in Poland, Hungary and the Slovak Republic.

In February 2014 CVVM investigated how people evaluate their possibilities to influence public affairs. Specifically, questions concered to possibility to openly express view of problems in society, in the town, in the state and the posibility to achieve their legitimate requests. We asked respondents to assess their possibilities to influence political decision-making and also the effectiveness of each activity. This press release offer comparison with previous surveys which were realized from 1997.

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As a part of February survey there were some questions focused on general attitudes to politics and political events of Czech citizens in the country.

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As a part of February survey there were some questions focused on interest of Czech citizens in political events in the country as well as in the world and on involvement of Czech citizens in political and public life.

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18% of Czech citizens would agree with return to the communist way of government, about the same share would approve authoritarian regime of strong leader with no parliament and with no elections, while three quarters of public disagree. Only 3% of Czechs think that the country should be governed by military, 94% dismissed such an idea.

In February 2014 in the research project Our Society there were included questions focused on opinion of Czechs about the reasons for entering public life and politicians' interest in opinion of ordinary citizens.

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In the February survey CVVM focused on views of Czech citizens in the political system in the Czech Republic and to what extent can our political system be considered democratic. We asked respondents to assess the political system in our country before 1989, the political system after 1989 (in  the 1990s), the current political system and their views on what political system will be in our country in 10 years.

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