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Authors: Vlachová, Klára
This article deals primarily with voting patterns during elections to the Chamber of Representatives. The new trends in voting patterns [Matějů and Vlachová 1997] that emerged during the Senate elections are not considered in the article. Information on voting patt...
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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka
The chapter analyses the character of the cabinet as a decision-making body. The ministers fulfil two primary tasks in parliamentary governments and these two tasks are, in certain extent, contradictory. First, with the exception of ministers without portfolio and the prime minis...
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Authors: Leontiyeva, Yana
The process of the Europeanisation of Czech alien and asylum laws seems to be rather inconsistent. The integration into the EU has brought some changes, which have not yet had a profound affect on the actual nature of immigration. Today immigration to the Czech Republic is often...
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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: Linek, Lukáš, Karel Čada, Jiří Kabele
The aim of the study was to reveal the degree to which government legislative planning fulfilled the following coordinative tasks: distributing legislative tasks and establishing a timetable for their completion; balancing political interests and transforming the legal code durin...
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Authors: Lux Martin, Cirman Andreja, Sunega Petr
The purpose of this paper is to explain why post-socialist countries adopted different housing restitution strategies after the change of regimes across the region. Restitution refers here to the process of returning property or compensating for property expropriated by the commu...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš, Jiří Kabele
Building upon a detailed study of the procedural arrangements and practices of Czech cabinet decision-making and law preparation in the years 1998–2004, the authors examine the question of whether the strategy of coping with legislative demands related to EU accession agend...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš
The opinions of the regional elite on the development possibilities of the regions were analyzed. Most of respondents are optimistic. The effort in gaining the money from EU funds, preferential support for domestic small and medium enterprises, and the support for the development...
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Authors: Veselý, Arnošt, Petrúšek, Ivan
The article empirically tests the theoretical propositions on instrument choice articulated by Linder and Peters and their followers. It examines whether decision makers tend to prefer some policy instruments over others, what the patterns of these preferences are, and how they c...
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Authors: Hašková, Hana, Steven Saxonberg
This chapter summarizes results of previous analysis that led the authors to identifying and deconstructing seven myths on childcare that prevail in the Czech Republic. Based on arguments introduced in previous chapters this chapter offers also authors´ recommendations to C...
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Authors: Zdenka Mansfeldová, Guasti, Petra (eds.)
V předkládané publikaci autorský tým projektu Rekonstituování demokracie v Evropě nabízí pohled na proměny české veřejné sféry a české politiky v kontextu přípravy Smlouvy o Ústavě pro Evropu, ratifikace Lisabonské smlouvy a následných voleb do Evropského parlamentu (2009)....
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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka
The chapter analyse the role of social dialogue and its importance for harmonisation of opposing interests in the field of capital and labour. Social dialogue means different forms of communication between social partners, employers and employees, organisations representing their...
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Authors: Linek, Lukáš
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Authors: Kunštát, Daniel
Strategic agenda focused on integration and development of good relationships with neighbour states represents crucial foreign politics aim of Czech Republic. Deepening of central – european cooperation with neighbour EU member states - Germany and Austria as well as with t...
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Authors: Vlachová, Klára, Petr Matějů
The basic structural cleavages of post-communist society should, according to Kitschelt [1992], be aligned along two separate axes: the left-right axis and that of libertarianism-authoritarianism. The party systems in central and eastern Europe were expected to structur...

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