E-learning Task 2 – (you can get up to 5 points /1 point for each question/)

Using the reading, answer/discuss the followig questions (500 words maximum for each answer):


1.       What types (according to their „origin“) of political parties emerged just after the
November 1989?


2.       What were the sources of the initial stability of the party system?


3.       Were there any pecularities regarding organization of political parties after the fall of
communism? (based on the fact that Czechoslovakia/Czechia was a newly emerged democracy)


4.       How would you described the most important cleavages/conflicts during the first 15-20
years of the existence of the Czech Republic)? What was the most important conflict?


5.       Could you briefly describe the most important rightist and leftist parties in the Czech
Republic until 2010?