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Authors: Tabery, P.
This chapter examines the relationship between public opinion and public policy. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the relationship of public opinion and public policy at the theoretical level and presents different concepts and empirical ways of exploring this relation...
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Authors: Tabery, P.
This chapter examines the relationship between public opinion and public policy. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the relationship of public opinion and public policy at the theoretical level and presents different concepts and empirical ways of exploring this relation...
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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: Mansfeldová, Zdenka
Accountability is a problem in every democracy, and particularly in countries currently building a democratic system and market economy. The chapter analyses the policy between parliament and government in connection with the problem of responsibility and accountability in the Cz...
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Authors: Frič, Pavol a kol.
The book contains the structured web of more than one hundred scenarios for the Czech Republic strategic behavior in European Union. The scenarios are deided into four broad fields: politics, cosial cohesion, institutions and globalization. 
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Authors: Jíchová, Jana, Šimon, Martin
The Stability of Crime at Places: A Case Study of a Czech CityResearch into the concentration of crime at places is a long-standing research area in environmental criminology. Studies demonstrate the practical potential of geo-localised data for criminological and security resear...
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Authors: Tuček, Milan (ed.)
The monograph discusses following social cohesion issues in the Czech society: social inequalities, social tension, social justice, trust and legitimacy, cohesion in spatial dimension, and influence of bridging social capital on social cohesion. Though the widely held agreement e...
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Authors: Šafr, Jiří, Markéta Sedláčková
This publication is based on the results of project research and is aimed at being more than just a volume of studies by individual authors. The introductory, theoretical chapter, devoted to a discussion of concepts of research on social solidarity (J. Šafr, M. Sedláčková, (with...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Šimon, Martin
The spatial concentration of social disadvantage in rural areas not only poses a risk to social cohesion but also represents a challenge for public policy. This article draws on a multidimensional concept of disadvantage to study spatial aspects of disadvantage in Czech rural are...
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Authors: Bischof, S., Decker, A.
Rural governance increasingly involves a broad range of political agents – but whom do rural dwellers consider responsible for creating and maintaining local opportunity structures? Focusing on the issue of places to socialise, our paper investigates resident-municipality relatio...
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Authors: Hejnová, Kateřina, Chylíková, Johana
This study focuses on the approaches used by Czech social workers operating in the field of child protection to resolve parental conflicts and looks specifically at their inclination to employ defensive practice. Defensive practice involves prioritising regulations and prescribed...