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Bringing the Distant CLOSER: The First ERC Grant Hosted by the Institute of Sociology
How do social divisions shape political parties and political systems in the Middle East and North Africa? How do they influence the way political parties represent and manage conflicts, and what can the region teach us about the relationship between party politics and political stability? These are among the central questions of CLOSER – “Party Systems and Social Cleavages in the Post-Ottoman Space of the MENA Region”, a six-year project funded by the European Research…
Prague hosted the ISSP General Assembly
From April 25–29, 2026, the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague hosted a meeting of members of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). Representatives of research institutions from 33 countries around the world gathered in the Czech capital to discuss the content of international questionnaires to be collected in the coming years. The Czech Republic was represented at the meeting Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D., and Prof. Dana Hamplová, Ph…























