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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký
The paper deals with the analysis of socio-economic and infrastructural differences of small commu¬nities disposing of their own local government and communities which form a part of a bigger mu¬nicipality and don’t dispose therefore of their own local government. T...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Čermák, Daniel, Vobecká, Jana
This study seeks answers to three fundamental questions: Who were the members of the regional political elites elected in the first regional elections in the year 2000; has the structure of the regional political elites undergone significant change after the elections in 2004, an...
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Authors: Martin, G., Kocman, D., Stephens, T., Peden, C., Pearse, R.
Care pathways are a prominent feature of efforts to improve healthcare quality, outcomes and accountability, but sociological studies of pathways often find professional resistance to standardisation. This qualitative study examined the adoption and adaptation of a novel pathway...
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Authors: Čambáliková, Monika, Zdenka Mansfeldová
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka
Sociological research of local government and the electoral results support a conclusion that a number of women in the representative bodies of the municipalities and the regions increases and in a European context it is somewhere in between. The women representation is larger in...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef
The paper deals with an analysis of the processual features of community care planning in the Czech Republic. It comes to conclusion that the participative nature of community care planning is only partially implemented in reality. The deficiencies of participative nature of comm...
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Authors: Stachová, Jana
Jedním ze zkoumaných aspektů občanské společnosti, nejen v souvislosti s rozdíly mezi vyspělými a novými evropskými demokraciemi, je vztah mezi veřejnou a soukromou sférou ve společnosti. V postkomunistických zemích přetrvává značná distance mezi osobním...
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Authors: Smith, Michael L.
This article examines the recall process in Polish and Slovak local government, where disatisfied residents have already ousted from power dozens of mayors, often on the basis of perceived corruption or abuse of power. In these countries, the local recall is among the most import...
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Authors: Patočková, Věra, Daniel Čermák, Kateřina Vojtíšková, Markéta Poláková, Renata Mikešová, Michal Illner, Radmila Lorenzová, Jiří Šafr, Josef Bernard, Zdenka Vajdová, Tomáš Kostelecký
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš
The text describes the activity of the interest group The Union of towns and cities during the construction of its own interest and during the lobbying in the legislative process. The author shows the success of the lobbying of this interest group and finds the main factors of it...
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Authors: Vojtíšková Kateřina, Markéta Poláková, Věra Patočková
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Authors: Vojtíšková Kateřina, Markéta Poláková, Věra Patočková
The concept of cultural planning is relatively well-established in many countries as a tool which enables municipalities to use their potential in local development, yet still notwell-known and debated among scholars, practitioners, or the wider public in Central Europe, includin...
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Authors: Poláková, Markéta - Patočková, Věra - Vojtíšková, Kateřina
According to the Committee on culture of the world association of United Cities and local Governments and its document "Agenda 21 for culture" (2004), culture should be considered as one of the four pillars of sustainable development on an equal footing with the others. This pape...

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