Doc. Robert Zbíral and Dr. Aleš Kudrnáč Presented Papers at a Conference “Principles of Modern Parliamentarism”

On Wednesday, 24 September 2026, a conference entitled “Pravidla moderního parlamentarismu: Konceptuální základy nového jednacího řádu Poslanecké sněmovny” (The Principles of Modern Parliamentarism: Conceptual Foundations of the New Rules of Procedure of the Chamber of Deputies) took place in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. As part of the first panel, which focused on expectations of modern parliaments, representatives of CoRe’s Research Project 8 (Social Conflict), doc. Robert Zbíral from the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, and Dr. Aleš Kudrnáč from the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, presented their papers on the topic.

Their presentation, entitled “What Does the Public Think of the Work of the Chamber of Deputies and What Is Their Vision?”, examined public views on the functioning of the lower house of parliament and citizens’ ideas about its ideal form.

In the closing panel on the topic “The Foundations of the Chamber of Deputies’ New Rules of Procedure from a Political Perspective’, the Members of Parliament, Marek Benda and Radek Vondráček, took the floor.