Daniel Čermák- PhD
- Researcher at The Czech Academy of Sciences
Daniel Čermák
- PhD
- Researcher at The Czech Academy of Sciences
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November 2000 - October 2015
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This article deals with the factors influencing the degree of trust in political institutions at three levels of government in the Czech Republic (national, regional and local) in two dissimilar regions in the time of economic crisis in 2009, the year when citizens of the Czech Republic experienced the negative impacts of growing unemployment and a...
This paper examines negative opinions on the European Green Deal (EGD) by combining critical discourse analysis of three Czech media and public opinion data analysis based on a representative sample of 821 Czech adults. Against the backdrop of the EGD contestation in the media debate and disagreement among the public, we evaluate the impact of the...
This article explores how small municipalities in Czechia adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and Ukrainian refugee crisis, and thus contributed to governance robustness. Through 24 semi-structured interviews with mayors, we examine local challenges and responses, revealing how these crises exposed weaknesses in public administration, particularly in...
Cílem předkládané studie je čtenáře seznámit s širším spektrem témat a s detailnějšími výsledky vlastního reprezentativního šetření Volný čas dětí a jeho prožívání 2021, které monitorují stav problematiky trávení volného času dětí na počátku třetího desetiletí 21. století. V úvodu jsou shrnuta hlavní zjištění a představeny základní parametry výzkum...
Kapitola přináší hlavní výsledky z reprezentativního šetření dětí staršího školního věku Volný čas dětí a jeho prožívání 2021. Nejprve se zaměřuje na čas strávený s digitálními médii, především s počítačem, tabletem či mobilem (ICT), dále se věnuje sportovním a pohybovým aktivitám, zapojení do spolkové mimoškolní činnosti, trávení volného času s ka...
The study presented in this paper uses a representative sample of the Czech population to analyse the relationships between attitudes to trees and preferences for landscapes with trees. We ask whether a positive assessment of the environmental benefits of trees in general and old and dead trees in particular leads to preferences for close-to-nature...
The article is dedicated to reflecting the links between the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the context of Czech social media, specifically on several blogging platforms. The processes leading to the climate and pandemic crises are highly intertwined, based in the way humans interact with the environment on a global scale. Howev...
Výzkum představený v tomto příspěvku je založený na analýze dat z reprezentativního šetření české populace zaměřeného na postoje ke stromům a preference krajin se stromy. Ptáme se, zda důraz na environmentální hodnoty stromů obecně, a starých a suchých stromů zvláště, vede k preferenci přírodě blízké krajiny se stromy. Výsledky ukazují, že lidé, kt...
Publikace, která vznikla v rámci projektu "Prožívání volného času dětí staršího školního věku jako výzva pro pedagogiku volného času" (TAČR č. TL02000387), nabízí shrnutí teoretických východisk zmíněného projektu a s pomocí výsledků zahraničních výzkumů a především pak vlastního výzkumu Volný čas dětí a jeho prožívání 2021 nastolit některé otázky p...
There has been a significant change of conditions in forestry in the last few years, mainly due to the bark beetle calamity, climate change and the changing social order to provide various forest functions in the Czech Republic. This research aimed to find out the opinion of the professional public on current topics related to the calamity situatio...
In this article we discuss multi-level career paths of Czech politicians from 2000 to 2017. First, we describe typical career movements between policy levels, differentiating between ascending and descending paths. Subsequently, we focus on ascending paths targeting at the national level which are the most common way how to enter the Parliament. Us...
Individual Determinants of Climate Change Scepticism in the Czech Republic This article focuses on the issue of climate change scepticism among the inhabitants of the Czech Republic and pursues two objectives: to compare climate change scepticism of Czech citizens with citizens of other European countries and to examine the relationship between ind...
The aim of this manuscript is to analyze notions of democracy among Czech mayors. Czechia is dotted with municipalities of various sizes, each with its own mayor, each of whom has a vision of how democracy at the local level should be practiced. Our focus here is on two types of democracies that are seen as alternatives: participatory democracy and...
In his controversial book If Mayors Ruled the World, US political theorist Benjamin Barber argued that mayors can and do play a major role in solving today’s grand societal challenges in domains like social inclusion and poverty, climate change and sustainability and safety and public order. It is increasingly recognised that meeting such challenge...
This article sets out to identify the factors that have an impact on mayoral decisions in terms of priorities for municipal development. Data from a survey conducted among Czech mayors in the years 2015 and 2016 (N = 492) are used. The sample consists of answers of mayors from municipalities of all population sizes and the sample is evenly distribu...
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...
The goal of this paper is to describe linguistic and issue differences in election manifestos of the parties involved in the Czech 2012 regional election and contribute to a better understanding of second-order election (SOE) theory on a discursive level. The year 2012 brought two main changes: a significant success of the Communist Party and a ris...
Výzkumná zpráva analyzuje data, která byla získána v květnu 2015 v reprezentativním dotazníkovém šetření ve 4 ze 7 vytipovaných lokalit pro výstavbu hlubinného úložiště vyhořelého jaderného paliva a radioaktivních odpadů v ČR. Svorníkem analýzy názorů obyvatel lokalit je otázka role místních komunit v procesu rozhodování o umístění úložiště.
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...
The goal of this chapter is to identify and describe the main discursive strategies that are used by political parties’ manifestos in Czech regional elections in 2012. The chapter looks at textual differences between strong well-established parties and the newly successful Communist party and unsatisfied regional parties and movements. The methodic...
Čermák, D., Kostelecký, T., Šimon, M., 2014, Prostorové vzorce volebního chování za první republiky – popis, proměny a možné příčiny (kapitola 4), s. 83-108. In: Kostelecký T., Mikešová, R., Poláková, M., Čermák, D., Bernard, J., Šimon, M. Koho volí Vaši sousedé? Prostorové vzorce volebního chování na území Česka od roku 1920 do roku 2006, jejich z...
Cílem publikace je analýza role sociálního kapitálu a jeho jednotlivých složek při překonávání důsledků ekonomické krize obyvatelstvem. Text se soustředí na detailní analýzu obyvatelstva Kraje Vysočina, v němž se předpokládá vysoká úroveň sociálního kapitálu, a Ústeckého kraje, s předpokládanou nízkou úrovní sociálního kapitálu. Vícerozměrnými stat...
This article sets out to identify the factors that can help explain trust in selected political institutions in the Czech Republic - the Government, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, regional assemblies, and municipal assemblies - and determine what kind of influence certain factors have on the overall...
Impact of Voting Preferences on the Development of Trust in Constitutional Institutions. This paper presents some findings about time-series evolution of trust in political institutions in the Czech Republic between 1997 and 2009. The analysis deals with two main issues: First, a comparison of time-series of trust in the Government of the Czech Rep...
The aim of the article is to describe the relations between institutions in the public, private and non-profit sectors that are considered the most important actors of negotiation and decision-making in local development. These institutions and the relations between them are defined as a social network. A study was carried out in the small Czech to...
The aim of the article is to describe the relations between institu-tions in the public, private and non-profit sectors that are considered the most important actors of negotiation and decision-making in local development. These institutions and the relations between them are defined as a sociál network. A study was carried out in the small Czech t...
This article sets out to identify the factors that can help explain trust in selected political institutions in the Czech Republic -the Government, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, regional assemblies, and municipal assemblies -and determine what kind of influence certain factors have on the overall le...
Are differences in the political attitudes of the regional population a mere reflection of the social and demographic composition of individual territorial units or is the regional context in which the political attitudes are formed itself important? The article presents the authors' answers to this question, based on empirical analyses of the data...
Researchers who make comparative analyses of political behaviour in sub-national territorial units must often choose between the use of aggregate data and surveys. The use of surveys has long been considered the superior option, as it allows researchers to avoid the danger of ecological fallacy connected with the use of aggregate data, but it is al...
Problematika drah bydlení je v zahraniční literatuře často diskutovanou otázkou řady výzkumů v oblasti bydlení. Předložená studie představuje první ucelenější publikaci v ČR věnovanou právě tomuto tématu. Čtenáři mají možnost se seznámit se základními pojmy z této oblasti a s výsledky prací některých výzkumníků. Analytická část je založena na sledo...
Researchers who,make,comparative,analyses of political behaviour,in sub-national territorial units must,often choose,between,the use of aggregate data and surveys. The use of surveys has long been considered,the superior op- tion, as it allows researchers to avoid the danger of ecological fallacy connected with the use of aggregate data, but it is...
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The aim of the article is to describe the relations between institutions in the public, private and non-profit sectors that are considered the most important actors of negotiation and decision-making in local development. These institutions and the relations between them are defined as a social network. A study was carried out in the small Czech to...
