Election campaign vehicles in the Czech parliamentary elections 2021 - their strengths and weaknesses in the domestic and international context
Abstract
The study is focused on campaign buses or battle buses, or more generally, election campaign vehicles. Specifically, it analyses their use in the campaign for the Czech parliamentary elections of 2021, in which four campaign buses, several specially adapted ice cream vans and even one campaign truck appeared.
However, the phenomenon under study here is set in a broader international context and also in the context of past Czech elections since 1996. The main aim of this text is to assess the advantages and disadvantages of using special campaign vehicles in political contestation, both in the specific Czech elections of 2021 and in general.
It also seeks to clarify the terminology related to the phenomenon. And the study also intends to highlight electoral campaign vehicles as an unjustly neglected topic of academic research.