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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Šimon, Martin
The book chapter analyzes profound economic and political changes in Czech society after 1989 from spatial perspective. The Czech society was very egalitarian in socio-economic terms at the end of 1980’s. The economic transformation dramatically changed the institutional setting,...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš
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: Vajdová, Zdenka, Daniel Čermák
Description of a process of municipalities disintegration during 90’s in the CR that happened as an effect of political changes. Basic information covers: 2199 new municipalities emerged as a result of division of 1032 municipalities. Disintegration touched small municipali...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Kostelecký, Tomáš
Volební chování individuálních voličů je ovlivňováno různými prostorově definovanými faktory. Zpravidla se vliv takových faktorů obecně označuje jako kontextuální efekty. Kontextuální faktory ovlivňují voliče různými způsoby: skrze působení rozdílných lokálních geografických a so...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký, Michal Illner, Jana Vobecká
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision maki...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka, Daniel Čermák
As the municipalities were disintegrated into autonomous territorial units there simultaneously emerged the first groupings of municipalities, the purpose of which was cooperation to achieve common aims. There are several hundred of such groupings in 2005. In order to obtain info...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka (ed.)
The objective of the study is to describe two factors that have a significant impact on regional development. One is the level of civil society development and the other is a nature of social network of local development actors. The focus of this study is Orlicko in the Pardubice...
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Authors: Smith, Michael L.
Not only do citizens in most Central European countries have the right to initiate referendums that are binding on local government, this book also shows that citizens in this region are also making greaer use of this possibility. The book focuses on the indentification of factor...
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Authors: Stachová, Jana
The region that forms the focus of this study is Orlicko in the in the District of Ústí nad Orlicí in the Pardubice Region, and specifically the area encompassed under the Association of Municipalities of Orlicko. Indicators of political and civic participation and indicators of...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka, Stachová, Jana
The article set sets out to compare the political culture and civic participation of population in selected regions in the Czech Republic using data from the survey “The influence of Region-Specific Factors on the Formation of the Political Outlook of Voters”, which w...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka
Sborník sestává z příspěvků přednesených na semináři Hierarchie jako síla i slabina komunistického vládnutí, který se konal ve dnech 11.-12. září 2003 na Fakultě sociálních věd UK. Celkovým záměrem semináře bylo pokud možno nezkresleně a bez předsudků ukázat a interpretovat proce...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka, Daniel Čermák, Jana Stachová
This study focuses on social capital and the network of links between the organisations involved in activities geared towards the development of tourism in the Pardubice Region. The analysis of their network displays interconnectedness, the trust they show each other in their coo...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka
The social network of the most important actors in local development is approximated on the basis of 35 institutions from the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Data on the network were obtained through a specialised questionnaire survey of representatives of these institut...
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Authors: Nejdl, Pavel, Daniel Čermák (eds.)
The objective of this study is to describe the basic discourse of cooperation, participation, and partnership in terms of how it is defined in the process of democratic administration in the Czech Republic and its regions. This basic discourse is determined from a legislative per...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka (ed.)
A role of social capital and of its individual dimensions working at overcoming the impacts of economic crises is analysed. Study focuses on a detailed analysis of the inhabitants of the Kraj Vysočina with a supposed high level of social capital, and of Ustecky kraj with a suppos...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Čermák, Daniel
The use of surveys has long been considered superior to aggregate data analysis in study of political behavior as it allows researchers to avoid danger of ecological fallacy. Article suggests the use of LOCCONTINGENCY method that combines the advantages of both possible approache...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Jana Vobecká (eds.)
This study presents an analysis of the characteristics, opinions and attitudes of regional elites in the Czech Republic. It is based on an empirical survey conducted in the autumn of 2004, just before the elections to the regional assemblies were held. The study looks at politica...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef
The chapter summarizes the results of contemporary social research on the processes of participation and partnership at local level in the Czech republic. The papers are classified according to their theoretical focus and the empirical field of interest.

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