Finished projects

Information Needs Analysis: What Do You Want to Know about the European Union? Centre of European Studies, University of Economics, Prague (1998 - 1999). Participant

The Social Capital and Social Policy Network (SCSPN): Social Cohesion, Trust and Participation: Social Capital, Social Policy and Social Cohesion in the European Union and Candidate Countries

In the first part, we comment issue of social capital and third sector in the Czech Republic with specific focus on NGOs, civic participation and social trust. Public policy in the civic sector is discussed. In the second part, we review li…

Principal Investigator:

Ivo Bayer, M.A.
PhDr. Jiří Šafr, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Social and Institutional Conditionality of Culture Development and Cultural Heritage Maintaining in the Regional Setting and its Exploitation for Effective Organisation of the Regional Cultural Activities

The aim of the project was a discovering of how culture development, cultural activities organization and exploitation are conditioned by social and institutional setting of a region and how to employ this knowledge in the activities of the…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Topics:

Culture, Regions

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

RECON - Reconstituting Democracy in Europe

RECON seeks to clarify whether democracy is possible under conditions of pluralism, diversity and complex multilevel governance. This includes taking proper heed of the challenges to democracy at EU and national levels.RECON spells out thre…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Constructing Supranational Political Spaces: The European Union, Eastern Enlargement, and Women’s Agency

This international comparative research project involving researchers from two accession countries – the Czech Republic and Poland – and American researchers focuses on studying the process of European Union enlargement. The project put…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marie Čermáková

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Understanding of Intergroup Differences in the Discursive Processes of Public Opinion

Understanding the public opinion process in conditions of accelerating social changes is of ever greater urgency. We conceive public opinion as a process and thus as the outcome of discursive processes at three levels: the individual, the g…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jiří Vinopal, Ph.D.

Topics:

Public Opinion

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Health & Family - ISSP 2011 and 2012

The association between the family and psychological and physical health has become a major theme in the sociological, demographic, and epidemiological literatures. On the one hand, significant attention has been devoted to the consequences…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Dana Hamplová, PhD.

Topics:

Family, Public health

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Denki Rengo Survey III: Quality of working life

International joint research on workers´ perception of their working life in the electrical and electronic machine industry. This research was conducted reciprocally three times: 1984-85, 1994-96 and 1999-2001. Denki Rengo III. covers the …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Members of the Czech Parliament in Its Third Term, supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, head of the Project Lubomír Brokl (2000-2002). participant.

Czech Political Parties after Ten Years

The aim of the project was to learn and analyse characteristics, structure and functioning of Parliamentary and other relevant political parties in relation to their functioning in the Parliament, at lower levels of an organization structur…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Lubomír Brokl

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

The Origins, Nature and Impact of Political Knowledge

This project will examine political knowledge among citizens of the advanced democracies in terms of origins, nature and impact.Origins: The question of why there are differences in level of political knowledge across citizens will be exami…

Principal Investigator:

Pat Lyons, BA, MA, Ph.D., DSc.

Topics:

Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

The Analysis of Voting Behaviour in Elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic 1996 – 2008

The project examines voting behaviour in elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The main objective is to analyse patterns of voting behaviour, the causes and consequences of the varying and generally very low voter…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Tomáš Lebeda, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

The Quality of Survey Research on Electoral Preferences

The objective is to conduct a professional evaluation of electoral surveys in the Czech Republic. The project will assess all aspects of data quality and availability. We intend to create a review of all existing surveys and gather relevant…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Support for Men Taking Parental Leave (MPSV ČR)

The issue of men going on parental leave must be monitored on a legislative, social-psychological, social, institutional and attitudinal levels and on the level of everyday life. As a result, the dynamic of relations between the private and…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Maříková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Social inequalities and the market risks following from housing consumption. The real and desirable response of state fiscal and monetary policies

The objective of the project is to make a comprehensive, theoretically framed, and empirically grounded, context-based description of the transformation of housing conditions in the CR after 1990, including both the identification of the ma…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Analysis of low number of women in political decision-making functions

Project offered complex analysis of low proportion of women in political decision-making functions. Main focus points were: institutional framework of female participation, social and economic structures and conditions, political culture in…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Petra Guasti, Ph.D., Dr. Habil.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Decision-Making in Eastern European Cabinets, Projekt European University Institute Florence a University of Duesseldorf, co-ordinated by Prof. Jean Blondel a Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (2003 -2005). National coordinator and investigator.

The Europeanization of the Political Representation in the Czech Republic (2007-2009), head of the project. GA ČR, reg. č. 407/07/1395.

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Topical Issues of the Formation of Equal Opportunities Policies for Men and Women in Connection with the Preparedness of the Czech Republic for the Accession to the EU

The objective of this sociologically-oriented project is to encourage the development of the following processes: a) implementation of binding European standards for equal opportunities policies for men and women in various spheres of socia…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marie Čermáková

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Gender & Sociology

SECONOMICS - Socio-Economics meets Security

Issued by: Evropská komise, FP7-SEC-2011-285223 Time of researching the project: 2012 – 2015, 36 months (1. 2. 2012 –31.1.2015) Coordinator of the project: Professor Dr. Fabio Massacci, University Trento, ItalyProject coordinator for t…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

Economy, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Transformations in professional and family trajectories in the Czech Republic

The research project focuses on a description and analysis of relations between professional career and family life and their development in the Czech Republic after 1989. It combines a diachronic approach based on comparison of the employm…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jana Klímová Chaloupková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Development interests of border area regions ( Orlicko case)

Differentiation and marginalisation of some social groups is folowed by regionalů differentiation and marginalisation. To map problems on a level of a whole and a region, to discover level of marginalisation of the Czech border area and to…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Vajdová

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Möglichkeiten der sozialpartnerschaftlicher Konfliktregelungen in der Tschechischen und Slowakischen Republik, OeNB Projekt No. 4177, Innsbruck, 1992-1993. Participant

Unequal access to education: the extent, sources, social and economic consequences, policy strategies

A vast number of studies conducted by the OECD and World Bank has well-documented that those countries reforming their educational systems and eliminating a variety of socio-economic barriers causing inequal access to education are today wo…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Petr Matějů, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession to the EU. Project supported within the program Modern Society by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic …

Information Needs Analysis: What Do You Want to Know about the European Union? Centre of European Studies, University of Economics, Prague (1998 - 1999). Participant

The Social Capital and Social Policy Network (SCSPN): Social Cohesion, Trust and Participation: Social Capital, Social Policy and Social Cohesion in the European Union and Candidate Countries

Social and Institutional Conditionality of Culture Development and Cultural Heritage Maintaining in the Regional Setting and its Exploitation for Effective Organisation of the Regional Cultural Activities

RECON - Reconstituting Democracy in Europe

Constructing Supranational Political Spaces: The European Union, Eastern Enlargement, and Women’s Agency

Understanding of Intergroup Differences in the Discursive Processes of Public Opinion

Health & Family - ISSP 2011 and 2012

Denki Rengo Survey III: Quality of working life

Members of the Czech Parliament in Its Third Term, supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, head of the Project Lubomír Brokl (2000-2002). participant.

Czech Political Parties after Ten Years

The Origins, Nature and Impact of Political Knowledge

The Analysis of Voting Behaviour in Elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic 1996 – 2008

The Quality of Survey Research on Electoral Preferences

Support for Men Taking Parental Leave (MPSV ČR)

Social inequalities and the market risks following from housing consumption. The real and desirable response of state fiscal and monetary policies

Analysis of low number of women in political decision-making functions

Decision-Making in Eastern European Cabinets, Projekt European University Institute Florence a University of Duesseldorf, co-ordinated by Prof. Jean Blondel a Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (2003 -2005). National coordinator and investigator.

The Europeanization of the Political Representation in the Czech Republic (2007-2009), head of the project. GA ČR, reg. č. 407/07/1395.

Topical Issues of the Formation of Equal Opportunities Policies for Men and Women in Connection with the Preparedness of the Czech Republic for the Accession to the EU

SECONOMICS - Socio-Economics meets Security

Transformations in professional and family trajectories in the Czech Republic

Development interests of border area regions ( Orlicko case)

Möglichkeiten der sozialpartnerschaftlicher Konfliktregelungen in der Tschechischen und Slowakischen Republik, OeNB Projekt No. 4177, Innsbruck, 1992-1993. Participant

Unequal access to education: the extent, sources, social and economic consequences, policy strategies

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession to the EU. Project supported within the program Modern Society by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic …

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