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Authors: Lacina, Tomáš
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Authors: Brokl, Lubomír, Zdenka Mansfeldová
This provocative and stimulating book argues that the structures and processes of elite politics in postcommunist Eastern Europe are critical determinants of democracy and political stability in the region. The East European regime transition were initiated and carried through pr...
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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka, Barbora Špicarová Stašková
The chapter focuses on national and European identity and examines, whether Europe is united or still divides concerning the new European identity. First part outlines the multiple natures of identity and different types of territorial attachment; the second one examines the posi...
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Authors: Machonin, Pavel, Milan Tuček
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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka, Barbora Špicarová Stašková
The article examines the perception of national and European identities from the viewpoint of political and economic elite. It examines the components of both identities, the relationship between national and European identities. The study is based on quantitative survey and comp...
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Authors: Olivier Godechot, Nils Neumann, Paula Apascaritei, István Boza, Martin Hallsten, Lasse Henriksen, Are Hermansen, Feng Hou, Jiwook Jung, Naomi Kodama, Alena Křížková, Zoltán Lippényi, Elvira Marta, Silvia Maja Melzer, Eunmi Mun, Halil Sabanci, Matthew Soener, Max Thaning
The upswing in finance in recent decades has led to rising inequality, but do downswings in finance lead to a symmetric decline in inequality? We analyze the asymmetry of the effect of ups and downs in finance, and the effect of increased capital requirements and the bonus cap on...
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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: Stachová, Jana
The regional elites express a higher level of generalized and institutional trust in comparison with the average among the Czech population. The cause of this difference can be found in the income inequalities and in the level of education. The regional elites express also a grea...
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Authors: Stachová, Jana
Jedním z důležitých aspektů fungování demokracie, ale i společenského života obecně, je hladina důvěry ve společnosti, a to jak na obecné rovině důvěry mezi lidmi, tzv. důvěry sociální, tak na rovině institucionální, tedy důvěry v nejrůznější instituce. V...
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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: Simonová, Natalie
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Authors: Benáček, Vladimír
The project The Adjustment of the Czech Labour Force: Changing Job Structures, Wage Disparities and Work Orientations aimed to use various data sources to describe changes in the field in the last decade. Studies on various topics are collected to provide a multidimensional pictu...
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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
The article presents and analyses prosopographical data on the elite of contemporary Czech sociological academia.
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Authors: Křížková, Alena
The aim of this text is to reveal the position of the Czech government and government officials who were responsible for gender and equality issues during the preparation for the Czech Republic’s accession to the EU. Based on this insight I argue that it was the government...
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Authors: Gatnar, Lumír, Lane, David
<p><strong>Popular opposition and support for different types of the EU integration</strong></p>Lumí<p>Lumír Gatnar and David Lane (Editors)</p><br><p>Selected papers from the third international conference </strong>Elites and...
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Authors: Machonin, Pavel, Milan Tuček
The study summarizes the results of the authors’ nearly decade-long effort (related to thestudy of the post-socialist transformation of Czech society) to gain an empirical and theoreticalknowledge of the process of how social elites are created and consolidated. Socialelite...
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Authors: Vobecka, Jana
This book studies the unique demographic behavior of Jews in Bohemia, starting from a moment in history when industrialization in Central Europe was far away in the future and when Jews were still living legally restricted lives in ghettos. Under conditions not stipulated by conv...

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