Václav Klaus: The rise and fall and re-emergence of a charismatic leader

East European Politics and Societies

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 391-416

  Saxonberg, Steven ^a  

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EID: 0033469330     PISSN: 08883254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0888325499013002020     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Robert C. Tucker, "The Theory of Charismatic Leadership," Daedalus 97:3 (1968): 731-56.
2. Tucker, "Theory of Charismatic Leadership," 737.
3. Tucker, "Theory of Charismatic Leadership," 749, emphasis added.
4. Dragoslav Slejška, Jan Herzman, et al., Sondy do veřejného mínémí (Jaro 1968, Podzim 1989), (Prague: Nakladatelstvi Svoboda, 1990), 63.
5. Timothy Garton Ash, We The People: The Revolution of 89, Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague, (London: Granta Books, 1990), 107-108.
6. I am grateful for Eve Frödin's kind permission to use the 27 interviews she conducted in the spring of 1995. For a complete list of the interviews and an exact reference list of all the citations, the author can be reached at Steven.Saxonberg@statsvet.uu.se.
7. Kåre Dahl Martinson, "Václav Klaus und die politische Stabilität in der Tschechischen Republik," Östeuropa 44:11 (1994): 1058.
8. Mladá fronta dnes, 19 November 1997.
9. Lidové noviny, 15 December 1997, reports that Klaus received 227 of 314 votes.
10. Klaus himself admits that Zeman hates him. See his interview in Jana Klusákové, "Neprognózujte, když jde o budoucnost," Tyden 50 (1997):63.
11. Michal Horáček Jak Pukaly Ledy (Prague: Ex Libris, 1990), 44; and Jiří Suk, Občanské fórum. Listopad - prosinec 1989 1. Dil - Události (Prague: Edice Knihy Dokumenty, 1997), 47.
12. Michal Horáček Jak Pukaly Ledy (Prague: Ex Libris, 1990), 44; and Jiří Suk, Občanské fórum. Listopad - prosinec 1989 1. Dil - Události (Prague: Edice Knihy Dokumenty, 1997), 47.
13. Interview with Ivan Fišera, 6 May 1993.
14. Timothy Garton Ash, "Prague: Intellectuals & Politicians," The New York Review of Books, 12 January 1995, 39.
15. See, for example, Kåre Dahl Martinsen, "Václav Klaus und die politische Stabilität in der Tschechischen Republik," Osteuropa 44:11 (1994): 1058. This was also a major theme of many of our interviews.
16. Slejška, Herzman, et al., Sondy do veřejného mínémí, 49.
17. See Mladá fronta dnes, 11 June 1992 for the election results.
18. Tucker, "Theory of Charismatic Leadership," 2.
19. See, for example, Theodore Draper, "A New History of the Velvet Revolution," The New York Review of Books 42 (1993): 16-17.
20. Slejška, Herzman et al., Sondy do veřejného mínémí, 49.
21. M. Tucek and P. Manek, Statistical and Survey Data (Prague: September 1993), 28; cited in Abby Innes, "The Breakup of Czechoslovakia: The Impact of Party Development on the Separation of the State," East European Politics and Societies 11:3 (1997): 400.
22. M. Tucek and P. Manek, Statistical and Survey Data (Prague: September 1993), 28; cited in Abby Innes, "The Breakup of Czechoslovakia: The Impact of Party Development on the Separation of the State," East European Politics and Societies 11:3 (1997): 400.
23. Reprinted in Václav Klaus, Nemám rád katastrofické scénár̂e (Ostrava: Sagit, 1991), 166.
24. According to official statistics, unemployment in the Czech lands was 2.57 percent in 1992, compared to 10.3 percent in Slovakia. See Martin Potůček and Iveta Radicová, "Splitting Welfare State: the Czech and Slovak Cases," Social Research 64:4 (1997): 1617.
25. See, for example, Mark Kramer, "Social Protection Policies and Safety Nets in East-Central Europe: Dilemmas of the Post-Communist Transformation," paper presented at the National Academy of Sciences Task Force on Economies in Transition, Workshop on Institutional Change and Social Sector Reform, September 1996; and Prague Post, 30 April 1997.
26. Mladá fronta dnes, 29 November 1997.
27. Even though we never mentioned the word "arrogant" in our interviews, 10 interviewees used the word in describing Klaus. Another called him "egocentric," and a twelfth talked about his "self-assurance." Even those who did not think him arrogant were so conscious of this accusation that they brought up the issue in order to deny it.
28. Viktor Nikolski, "Současné postavení české ekonomiky," Mezinárodní politika 22:1 (1998): 17.
29. See, for example, Steven Kettle, "Of Money and Morality," Transition, 15 March 1995, 37; Mitchell Orenstein, "Václav Klaus: Revolutionary and Parliamentarian," East European Constitutional Review (Winter 1998):53-55; Václav Žák, "Křižovatky naší privatizace," Listy 27:3 (1997): 13-22; and Prague Post, 30 April 1997.
30. See, for example, Steven Kettle, "Of Money and Morality," Transition, 15 March 1995, 37; Mitchell Orenstein, "Václav Klaus: Revolutionary and Parliamentarian," East European Constitutional Review (Winter 1998):53-55; Václav Žák, "Křižovatky naší privatizace," Listy 27:3 (1997): 13-22; and Prague Post, 30 April 1997.
31. See, for example, Steven Kettle, "Of Money and Morality," Transition, 15 March 1995, 37; Mitchell Orenstein, "Václav Klaus: Revolutionary and Parliamentarian," East European Constitutional Review (Winter 1998):53-55; Václav Žák, "Křižovatky naší privatizace," Listy 27:3 (1997): 13-22; and Prague Post, 30 April 1997.
32. See, for example, Steven Kettle, "Of Money and Morality," Transition, 15 March 1995, 37; Mitchell Orenstein, "Václav Klaus: Revolutionary and Parliamentarian," East European Constitutional Review (Winter 1998):53-55; Václav Žák, "Křižovatky naší privatizace," Listy 27:3 (1997): 13-22; and Prague Post, 30 April 1997.
33. Eva Broklová, Československá demokracie. Politický systém ČSR 1918-1938 (Prague: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1992).
34. Orenstein, "Václav Klaus," especially pages 49-51.
35. P. Machonin, "Socio-Economic Changes in the Czech Republic. With an Appendix Concerning the 1996 Elections' Results," Working Paper 96:10, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1996, 35.
36. ČTK, 16 June 1998.