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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš
The aim of the text is to study interaction of the regional, national and European influences in the pre-accession Czech Republic in thesphere of public administration and regional policy. Special attention was paid to the role of the Committee of the Regions,...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Patočková, Věra, Illner, Michal
The authors try to answer the question of whether the regional governments (both its elected and the administrative parts) in the Czech Republic function similarly or whether they vary in terms of performance. And if they do vary, how structured and how large are these difference...
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Authors: Illner, Michal
Opinion of regional elites on the new system of regional government introduced in the Czech Republic in 2001 is analyzed, based on a 2004 survey. Opinion on the reasons which stood behind the reform, on success of the new system, on adequacy of the responsibilities entrusted to t...
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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: 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
Based on the data of the research Regional Elites 2004 a measure of cooperation importance is counted. It indicates an ability to cooperate with the different actors influencing regional decision-making. It could be useful for a comparison with the other groups of elites. Regiona...
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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: 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: 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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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: 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: Čermák, Daniel, Jana Stachová
The aim of this study is to describe the opinions of the citizens and representatives of the local institutions relating to the civic participation on the public affairs in the local community. The paper responses to following questions, more or less in the descriptive manner: Ho...
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Authors: Čermák, Daniel
This chapter describes political careers of regional elites between years 1988 and 2004. There was created typology of 7 types of political careers on the basis of similarity. Political career is comprehended as moving between particular levels of municipal, district, regional an...
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Authors: Nejdl, Pavel
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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ESA 2015
Na konci srpna, 25.–28. 8. 2015, se bude v Praze konat významná, již 12. mezinárodní sociologická konference Evropské sociologické asociace. Zúčastní se jí rekordní počet 3500 vědců a vědkyň, především z Evropy, ale i z mnoha mimoevropských zemí. Konferenci pořádá Sociologický ús...