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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Daniel Trnka
The article focuses on the change of relationship between the state, state authorities, and local self-governing authorities on the one hand and the Citizen and thein groups on the other hand. It show the new modes of governance which state and self-governing authorities use to c...
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Authors: Jelínková, Marie, Valenta Ondřej
Perspectives on migrant integration differ by time and place. This article examines this vague concept to shed light on how its evolution over time has shaped the current conceptions of migrant integration in the EU and the Czech Republic. It describes the situation in the Czech...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef
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: Patočková, Věra
The chapter analyses information about cooperation between municipalities published in mentioned magazines between January 2001 and September 2005. General information about both magazines and about published contributions are presented. Main attention is focused to areas of coop...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký
In the chapter, the authors present a statistical analysis of the internal development potential of small rural communities or settlements. Drawing on statistical data (census data, election statistics, urban and municipal statistics, demographic statistics, municipal budget stat...
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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: Šimon, Martin
Studium mechanismů, které mohou narušovat sociální soudržnost společnosti, patří mezi základní témata sociologického výzkumu. Riziko sociálního znevýhodnění je ovlivněno dominantně individuálními faktory, ale síla působení těchto faktorů závisí na prostředí, kde obyvatelé žijí. V...
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Authors: Klsák, Adam
In the last three decades, Karlovy Vary has been the main destination for Russians in Czechia (besides Prague) in terms of residential, investment and tourist attractiveness. This has affected many aspects of its life. Presence of foreign inhabitants, businessmen and tourists cha...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Jíchová, Jana
Publishing the crime data at the level of street segments - a proposal of solution for cities in CzechiaThe aim of this paper is to present a proposal for the public presentation of street crime data suitable for Czech cities. In the first part, the article review current researc...
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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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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka, Daniel Čermák, Michal Illner
This study examines two processes that public administration went through at the local level beginning in the early 1990s: a process whereby municpalities were broken up into autonomous units, and a process whereby these autonomous municipalities voluntarily came together to form...
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Authors: Vobecká, Jana, Josef Bernard, Michal Illner
The chapter summarises the results of three qualitative case studies of local government and the development potential of three selected small municipalities: Verměřovice, Vražkov, Roztoky. The case studies are based on interviews with the main actors of public affairs in the com...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Michal Illner, Jana Vobecká, Tomáš Kostelecký
The chapter summarises the main findings of the study. It describes the basic factors which impact the development of small rural communities and the main development actors. Local governments are explained as the dominant development actors on the local level. The chapter points...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Patočková, Věra, Vobecká, Jana
The article represents the results of empirical research aimed at the analysis of potential relationships between thelevel of social capital, the level of economic development and government performance in the Czech regions. The results of analysis do not support hypothesis about...
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Authors: Hájek, Martin (ed.)
This volume is comprised of the papers that were presented at the seminar “Hierarchy as a Strength and Weakness of Communist Rule”, which was held on 11-12 September 2003 at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. The general purpose of the sem...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Jíchová, Jana
This article reports on a new empirical study evaluating crime concentration at places in a postsocialist city. We use principles of the law of crime concentration at places and the Cambridge Crime Harm Index to measure crime count and crime harm concentration at the le...
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Authors: Ďurďovič, Martin
Metodika je výsledkem projektu, jehož jádrem bylo shromáždění a systematizace poznatků o sociální zakotvenosti rozhodování o hlubinném úložišti vyhořelého jaderného paliva a vysokoaktivních odpadů (HÚ) za pomoci kvalitativního a kvantitativního empirického sociologického výzkumu....
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Authors: Ryšavý, Dan, Čermák, Daniel
V kapitole se věnujeme těm, kteří žijí nejen "pro", ale také "z" politiky a druhé úrovní místních samospráv (v ČR míněny kraje). Zajímáme se o to, kolik času zastupitelé, kteří se věnují politice "naplno" věnují záležitostem kraje a které faktory ovl...
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Authors: D. Čermák, R. Mikešová
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...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Jíchová, Jana
Covid-19 významně ohrozil nejen zdraví obyvatelstva a fungování zdravotnictví, ale i mnoho dalších oblastí lidského života. Epidemiologická opatření narušila běžné fungování společnosti a odrazila se i ve fungování kriminality a bezpečnostních složek. Proměny a dopady t...

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