Typology of Czech ministers - who are members of governments? Cover Image

Typologie českých ministrů – kdo jsou členové vlád?
Typology of Czech ministers - who are members of governments?

Author(s): Michal Pink, Aneta Pinková, Matěj Pospíchal
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Government/Political systems
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta sociálních věd
Keywords: ministers; government; politicians; technocrats, specialists; generalists; Czech politics

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the understudied question of who is likely to become a minister in the Czech Republic. It analyses some of the key characteristics of Czech ministers in the period from 1993 till 2018: we focus mainly on education and carriers before and after the office. The first goal is to identify reservoir pools from which Czech ministers tend to be recruited. The second is to apply a new typology based on Blondel’s distinction between specialists and generalists, combined with the distinction between politicians and technocrats. Individual governments are then compared based on the relative representation of each of these types of ministers.

  • Issue Year: 12/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 40-64
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Czech