Annales Scientia Politica

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Authors: Editorial Board of Annales Scientia Politica

Editorial Board of Annales Scientia Politica has lost Vladimír Dančišin (information).

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Authors: Gita Geremešová

Bauman, Z.: Retrotopia. Bratislava: Artforum, 2017. 167 s. ISBN 978-80-8150-176-0 (book review)

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Authors: Radim Holechek

This article is devoted to the topic of the analysis of the electoral system in the Czech Republic. Despite that initially, there have been such rules in the electoral law that complied with international election process standards of organising and conducting democratic elections, there are several drawbacks in it. It concerns, first of all, the formula of transferring electors’ votes into deputy’s seats. Such a situation stimulates the Czech political elite to the discussion regarding the search for optimal election system model.

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Authors: Richard Geffert

Social justice as one of the basic principles of social policy is a relative phenomenon that can be interpreted differently in space and time. The research paper addresses the content framework of the social justice phenomenon in the optics of the socio-political-economic specifics of the theory and practice of the axiological systems of Western civilization. The main aim is to identify the understanding of social justice by the power goverments of the Slovak Republic through the mechanisms of valorisation of old-age pensions in the time horizon of 2010 – 2018.

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Authors: Jakub Charvát

The paper analyses the politics of electoral reform since 1989 in Slovakia as it follows the earlier paper of Michal Drengubiak of 2017 in order to advance some of its conclusions. After a brief theoretical introduction of the investigated issue the paper focuses on four electoral-reform processes in Slovakia, namely electoral reforms of 1990, 1992, 1998 and 1999. The main findings of the paper are that the 1990 electoral reform was an elite-dominated process, that the 1998 electoral reform is an example of a specific case regarding the Micro-mega rule of Josep Colomer, and that there may be distinguished two waves of the politics of electoral reform in Slovakia (transitional and post-transitional) which differs mainly in strategies opted by political actors to maximize their parliamentary seat shares.

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Authors: Eliška Boháčová

After the elections in November 2015 Myanmar has had a new and, although some wouldn’t agree, democratic government. And the head of the new government is a woman – Aung San Suu Kyi. In a country where the government had been led by an army dominated by men for more than five decades, there is now a quasi-democratic government led by a woman. Could this fact imply that the situation of Myanmar’s women in general is improving? Does democratization have any implications for a gender regime that has been dominantly patriarchal for decades? And how do the democratisation process and the rising Buddhist nationalism effect the antidiscrimination agenda declared after the abandonment of military rule?