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Authors: Smith, Michael L.
This article examines the relationship between social justice norms and the perceived legitimacy of the social stratification system in the Czech Republic. Despite the fact that meritocratic values have remained the dominant part of ideology in the Czech Republic throughout the t...
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Authors: Vlachová, Klára
This article deals with legitimacy of democracy and its relationship to trust in institutions in the Czech Republic. The author distinguishes between support for democracy as a form of government, and satisfaction with the development of democracy in a (particular) country, and s...
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Authors: Sedláčková, Markéta, Šafr, Jiří
This paper investigates the role of civic culture and other political factors in support for democracy in the Czech Republic during the decade following EU accession. The goal is to assess the validity of civic virtue theory and to compare the impact of these factors on affective...
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Authors: Tudzarovska Emilija
Looking into new Geopolitical EU from and the EU Enlargement from historical perspective
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Authors: Moravcová, Eva
Většina spáchaných trestných činů není odhalena policií samotnou. Její práce, pokud má být efektivní, výrazně závisí na ochotě občanů s touto institucí spolupracovat. Příspěvek porovnává míru této spolupráce v České republice a v ostatních evropských zemích, které...
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Authors: Moravcová, Eva
Social order and security depend on mutual cooperation between the police and the public. Since the majority of crime is not detected by the police itself, informal control is needed to ensure order in society. This article aims to describe the circumstances under which people´s...
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Authors: Samec Tomáš, Gibas Petr
In this article, we propose to expand the field of urban political ecology (UPE) by analyzing the role of discourse in the production of urban nature. We exemplify our case by analyzing media discourses and exploring discursive modes of justification and hierarchies of worth mobi...
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Authors: Vlachová, Klára
For decades, research on democracy has produced evidence that the peoples of countries in Central Europe are less satisfied with the way democracy works in their countries than people in Western Europe. Using the data from the European Social Survey (ESS) I explore, how satisfact...
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Authors: Sedláčková, M., J. Šafr
On the basis of the discussion between cultural and institutional theories, and taking into account the specific development in post-communist countries, we study three elements of the democratic system - specifically, social trust, institutional trust, and systemic trust (legiti...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš
The book analyses four main dimensions of attitudes towards political regime and its institutions and describes changes in the attitudes within the Czech society between 1996 and 2006. These attitudinal dimensions are regime legitimacy, institutional disaffection, individual disa...
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Authors: Sedláčková, Markéta
The book treats the problem of functioning of democracy from the perspective of trust. Three main types of trust are defined in the democratic system: systemic trust (legitimacy of the regime), trust in institutions and general trust in other people. The work analyzes the role of...
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Authors: Tudzarovska Emilija
The book examines and investigates the legitimacy of the European Union by acknowledging the importance of variations across actors, institutions, audiences and context. The book chapter examines the role of the national parliaments and party politics in exercising the legitimiza...

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