Poles and Polarization of Municipal Party System in Big Cities in Czech Republic: The Case of Prague, Brno and Ostrava 1994 - 2002

The article is looking at the hypothesis whether we can find any differences - especially in the terms of poles configuration - in the municipal party system of the towns of Prague, Brno and Ostrava, even though there some basic agreements. The main agreement of all the three municipal part systems can be seen in the fact that during the three monitored periods there was a main partial-political pole of right-centred ideolofical orientation - ODS in function. None of the systems was symetrical in the area of the pole configuration. Neither of them is showing - for the time beeing - the marks of rigidity in sense "frozen" partial interactions and structures. Still, we should be aware of this "rigidity" when talking about the town of Prague, where the situation is coming close to the one described before, mainly due to the relations of the right-centred and centred sector. Our main effort was to bring the concept of party polarization and the poles of the patrial-political interactions forward to the communal level - in part, at least. Of course, it should be understood that thoose concepts cannot be applied to the field of the communal politics in general. We are sure that the prospective extension of this research study containing another big town of the Czech Republic may bring remarkable results.