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Authors: Stachová, Jana
The regional elites express a higher level of generalized and institutional trust in comparison with the average among the Czech population. The cause of this difference can be found in the income inequalities and in the level of education. The regional elites express also a grea...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Vajdová, Zdenka
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Authors: Kudrnáč Aleš, Vejchodská Eliška, Slavíková Lenka
Scholars and practitioners endorse public participation in the decision-making process as enhancing the health of democracy, justice, and effectiveness of policy outcomes. To sustain or even increase the number of participants in the long run, it is crucial to start raising a new...
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Authors: Čermák, Daniel, Jana Vobecká a kol
The main objective of this book is to analyse the processes of cooperation, partnership and participation in local public administration. The authors ask: How local actors understand to these processes, what are main assets and shortcomings of mentioned processes? The book contai...
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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Alena Křížková
The authors analyze the impact of women’s civic organizations and groups on promotion of gender equality in the era of socio-economic transformation and the EU eastern enlargement period. They also analyze what was the role of those processes on women’s groups and NGO...
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Authors: Rakušanová, Petra, Barbora Stašková
This study explores why the third sector is an important agent for promoting civic participation and interest representation. The empirical evidence presented in a first part of the study is organized using an analytical typology based on two key criteria: (a) type of organizatio...
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Authors: Linek, L., J. Mazák, M. Pilnáček, M. Škvrňák
V západní Evropě sice volební volatilita za posledních třicet až čtyřicet let významně narostla, skutečnou explozi voličské nestability ovšem spojujeme se zeměmi bývalého komunistického bloku ve východní Evropě. Tato publikace se proto zaměřuje na výzkum volební volatility v 11 p...
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Authors: Rakušanová, Petra
The chapter describes third sector and civic participation in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the role of non-governmental organizations, the character of third sector in the Czech Republic and its context in the central European region. It examines the membership of the non-go...
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Authors: Rakušanová, Petra
This study focuses on the relationship between participation and citizenship and their influence on the formation and functioning of effective representative democracy. In the first part of the study the authors introduce the theoretical framework they apply to their study of dem...
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Authors: Vlachová, Klára, Tomáš Lebeda
In this article the authors describe what forms of political participation, outside the electoral process, the populations of twenty-one European countries tend to employ and to what degree. They identify three types of non-electoral political participation: active-conventional,...
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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka
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Authors: Kolářová, Marta
This paper examines gender aspects of tactics of the alter-globalization movement. Focusing mainly on two transnational collective actions in Prague in 2000 and in Genoa in 2001, the research draws on participant observation, interviews with activists and analysis of the movement...
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Authors: Maříková, Hana
The chapter deals with the Trade Unions as the prominent actors in the labour market which should protect employees against diffrent types of discrimination as well as be helpful in solving issues relating to sexual harrasment in the workplace.
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Authors: Sedláčková, Markéta, Jiří Šafr
According the theory of civil society generalized social trust is enhanced in all sorts of civic activism; according the alternative hypothesis rather non-institutionalized participation based on collective action should be link to interpersonal trust. We assess the structure of...
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Authors: Čermáková, Marie, Maříková, Hana, Tuček, Milan

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