ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to evaluate the implementation of intra-party democracy in new parties that emerged and obtained parliamentary representation in the Czech Republic at the time when the consequences of the global financial economic crisis were manifest: Public Affairs, ANO and Dawn. The Czech Republic is a country that has not witnessed any strengthening of internal democracy in its political parties since 2010. The newly emergent protest parties are of the entrepreneurial type. By virtue of their structure, they seek centralised organisation and decision-making, and this affects their candidate selection procedures for parliamentary elections. The same applies to the established parties which do not counter the entrepreneurial parties with more intra-party democracy. Quite to the contrary, centralisation of electoral campaigns seems to be accepted by the established parties as a cure, and direct democracy and direct elections as more of a threat.
