Který režim produkuje lepší sportovní výsledky - kapitalismus, nebo socialismus?

The main aim of my paper is to investigate the influence of the political system on sports achievements. I examine the difference between medal achievements of athletes from so called socialist countries with one ruling party and command economy and those from democratic countries with market economy in the following 5 major sport events in the period from 1949 to 2009: The Summer Olympic games, The Winter Olympic games, The World Championships in Athletics, The World Swimming Championships, The World Gymnastics Championships. In order to determine this influence, two models are used. The first is the basic model, which is similar to models widely used in existing works on this topic. The second is the model with dummy for countries, which uses fixed effects. This paper performs a detailed analysis of wide range of sports which makes it different from existing research. Using the two above mentioned models, the comparison of countries with similar GDP per capita shows, that socialist countries athletes obtained more medals that those from democratic countries. The difference was 1.8 -- 3.7 percentage points from the total number of medals awarded for analyzed period of time.