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Working in the context of a rather ethnically homogeneous country , this study examines what differentiates the social distance of university students towards Arab, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Roma populations. The hitherto neglected effect of the field of study is also of special concern. The authors analysed the results of a large online survey of...
Studie se věnuje především otázce financování informačních a digitálních technologií v mateřských, základních a středních školách a v ZUŠ. Představuje variabilitu zdrojů a objemu financování a zabývá se jeho udržitelností. Dílčím způsobem sleduje také využívání digitální infrastruktury (DI) ve výuce a její zázemí v rámci regionálního školství. S oh...
The study presents an analysis of the communication of the currently highly salient topic of housing in the council newspapers of three Czech towns that differ in terms of their proportion of municipal flats. A quantitative content analysis did not confirm the presumed massive favouring of the governing coalition in the pre-election period. A quali...
The purpose of the book is to present publicly available data published mainly by state institutions (especially the Czech Statistical Office, individual ministries, or in the context of international comparison, Eurostat) so that the reader can get a basic idea of the available data concerning Czech society.
The book uses available data to show t...
This book places the current housing crisis in the historical and social context of post-socialist developments and focuses on the situation of young adults, people born between 1985 and 2000, who are often – and, as we show, incorrectly – labelled in the media as ‘millennials’ and who are now entering the housing market at a time of global and loc...
In post-communist countries, the early years of housing policy after 1989 were characterised by the withdrawal of the state. Municipalities played an important role in the housing privatisation process in the Czech Republic. Thirty years later, a global boom in housing prices occurred in major urban centres. Young people are facing the problem of d...
With rising spending during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state has become involved in decision-making in areas where it has held back for years. In the case of housing the state’s role has declined sharply since 1989, and the expectation that housing is the private responsibility of each individual and his or her family has strengthened over time as...
In the chapter on the Czech Republic the following networks of local state-society relations are considered and classified: the municipal board commissions as communicative networks, the municipal council committees as communicative networks, the Local Action Groups (LAGs) as consociational networks, the local partnership(s) for social inclusion as...
Když byla na jaře 2016 zveřejněna výzva ohlašující přípravu monotematického čísla "Vládnutí a političtí aktéři v obcích a krajích", zájem předčil očekávání. Přesto se konečná podoba nerodila snadno. Výsledkem je monotematický blok třech statí a čtyř souvisejících recenzí. Sedm autorů a dvě autorky se zabývají otázkami "Jak politické vedení jednoho...
This paper evaluates subnational governance change in the Czech Republic within the context of a domestic response to Europeanization dynamics employing both the top-down and bottom-up approaches. It does not find much evidence of a substantial empowerment of the regional level. The central government is still a gatekeeper. Czech regions have exper...
Fifteen years of municipal election studies This review essay compares four edited monographs that represent a core of municipal election studies in the Czech Republic. Most of the Czech political scientists didn't pay attention to elections in local political arena before 2002 when fourth elections after the renewal of local government in 1990 wer...
In 1990, the Czech Republic returned to a fused model of territorial administration in which the same local bodies exercise both interdependent powers and functions delegated to them by the state administration. Public administration at the local level is affected by the size of the municipalities because of a high level of territorial fragmentatio...
Introduction
After the communist regime collapsed in 1989, the rebirth of local government in 1990 was an integral part of the transition from the ancien régime to a democratic political order. The second face of the development of public administration applied at the local level was more complicated; this was the delegation by law of a portion of...
This book provides the first comprehensive review of the state of the art of policy analysis in the Czech Republic. The edited volume consists of nineteen original chapters that address different aspects of policy analysis in the Czech Republic. Written by leading experts in the field – including informed practitioners – it outlines the historical...
This study compares three groups of full-time politicians in the Czech Republic.
Two of these – MPs and mayors – came into existence in the early 1990s
immediately after the fall of the communist regime, and the third, here
referred to as county full-time politicians, appeared only at the turn of the
millennium. To investigate their profiles and ca...
In this chapter we discuss those who live not only "for" but also "off" politics at the second tiers of local government authorities. We are interested in how much time the representatives who work in politics full time dedicate to county affairs and what factors influence whether or not a layperson becomes a political professional. We are working...
Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství a Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., 2015. 222 s., ISBN 978-80-7419-160-2
Regions in the margins
Regions and their representatives 2000-2013
After 1989 the regional government (or the second tier of local government according to Heinelt and Bertrana 2011) has been a marginalized topic for both the political representation and the public. At the end of the millennium changes on the domestic political scene and the EU ac...
In this paper I discuss three levels of change in the local political elite in the Czech Republic after 1989 - the institutional, the political and the personal. Two questions are answered with the hlep of different research findings. Who/what can be called the children of the revolution? What has happened to those children during the past fifteen...
County elections 2012 in the Czech Republic displayed a mixture of continuity and
novelties. Since 2000 four county elections have been mid-term elections and their results have
supported second-order elections theory. The Civic Democratic Party of Va´clav Klaus, who was
one of the biggest opponents of the introduction of decentralization, won the...
Why compare European mayors and councillors? It can be argued that the Mayor and the local council are the two most important organs of local government. Mayors are the most visible citizens that represent their towns outwardly. Their political significance usually stretches far beyond their formal competencies. Directly elected mayors, in particul...
This article is concerned with the political careers of local councillors. More specifically, the key question is about a possible professionalization of councillor careers at the local level in Europe. If the careers of local councillors tend to follow a number of standard routes, to what degree can these be perceived of as professionalized? In ou...
The municipal structure of the Czech Republic experienced a wave of fragmentation after the fall of the communist regime. As a result, most Czech municipalities today have populations of only a few hundred inhabitants. This situation creates specific conditions for the democratic functioning of local representative bodies. In this paper we focus on...
This paper is about a possible professionalization of councillor careers at the local level in Europe. At the outset we assumed that the degree of professionalisation would be positively correlated to a) the importance of local government within the national system of government, and b) the influence of the local council relative to other political...
This article presents a critical evaluation of the growing popularity of online social surveys for the exploration of attitudes and behaviours within higher educational institutions. More specifically this article addresses a number of key issues: the construction of representative online samples, and the presentation of the results from an institu...
In the Czech Republic, associations of independent candidates play an exceptional role in local politics; in fact, members of such associations are the most common type of politician in the country. Even the large political parties do have enough members to put together candidate lists in most municipalities without the help of candidates not affil...
In the Czech Republic, associations of independent candidates play an exceptional role in local politics; in fact, members of such associations are the most common type of politician in the country. Even the large political parties do have enough members to put together candidate lists in most municipalities without the help of candidates not affil...
An increasing number of surveys are employed in the field of public administration. This begs the question, what is the quality of this form of research? In this article two different surveys are presented and compared. First, a client satisfaction survey implemented at twelve municipal offices is examined. Second, there is an exploration of an int...
The article focuses on representatives of the regional (and most recently established) level of government in the Czech Republic. It describes the context behind the emergence of regional governments and how they differ from the local and national political levels. It notes the close personnel connection between local and regional political elites....
Text se věnuje otázce identifikace prvních generací lokálních a regionálních politiků v České republice po roce 1989. Krátce přibližuje proměny politických a ekonomických elit a poté věnuje zvláštní pozornost ustavení, personálnímu složení a dalším charakteristikám prvních lokálních politiků. Specifičnost první generace místních lídrů spočívá v nut...
Sociologists studying the renewal of local government in post-communist Central European countries have formulated a hypothesis that local politics are becoming increasingly politicised. Political scientists focusing on local coalitions have provided a tool for examining this politicisation. This article is based on a secondary analysis of research...
Various public opinion polls and sociological surveys have displayed a high level of intolerance towards Roma in the Czech society. However, the investigators rarely record the individual level of intolerance. The Bogardus social distance scale is a classical instrument for this purpose. In its first part, the article deals with the development, us...
The article deals with concepts used by Možný for the interpreta- tion of quick collapse of socialist regime in Czechoslovakia (1991). In the first part the text shows that Možný's taking two different approaches to social capital (Bourdieu, Coleman) didn't explain how the social changes went. Rather he described the operation of old system as comp...
The image of the social scientist as a stranger is well known. However, there are different approaches to the notion of the stranger in sociology. A comparison of Schütz's and Simmel's conceptions of the stranger enables us to distinguish two forms of field work used in the project Transitional processes. The social anthropological approach strives...
Trust is one of the concepts that saw a revival of interest in social sciences. The fast changing post-communist societies offer themselves as "living laboratories" for testing various theories of trust because the opinion polls in those countries often reach the conclusion that the revolutionary euphoria was replaced by "crisis of trust". This stu...
"Název projektu: Výzkum pro potřeby regionů (Ministerstva pro místní rozvoj ČR)"--Tiráž 500 výt.
The article focuses on representatives of the regional (and most recently established) level of government in the Czech Republic. It describes the context behind the emergence of regional governments & how they differ from the local & national political levels. It notes the close personnel connection between local & regional political elites. Exper...
