Finished projects
241 Projects
The Housing Market in Prague from the Perspective of Economic Sociology: “Transitive” Factors behind the High Prices of Owner-Occupied housing
The main objective of the project was determine whether there exist “transitive”, institutionally and culturally specific factors behind the high prices and low financial affordability of older and new owner-occupied housing in Prague, …
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Housing
Contracting authority:
Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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EU Enlargement, Gender and Political Power: The Civic and Political Participation of Women and the Representation of Women’s Interests in EU Candidate Countries
The research project focuses on the study of the political and civic participation of women in Central and Eastern Europe. It analyses the range and strategies of women’s involvement in political parties, NGOs, trade unions and social mov…
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European Union, Gender, Civil Society
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International Project
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Persistence and change of voting patterns in the territory of the Czech Republic since the introduction of universal suffrage (causes and consequences)
The research project analyzes causes and political consequences of persistence and change of the voting patterns. It analyses results of all parliamentary elections on the territory of the contemporary Czech Republic since universal suffrag…
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- RNDr. Martin Šimon, Ph.D.
- PhDr. Markéta Horpeniaková, Ph.D.
- RNDr. Mgr. Renáta Mikešová, Ph.D.
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Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions
Contracting authority:
Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Public/private funding of higer education: a social balance
The aim of this project was to provide reliable data and information on the real and effective distribution of (teaching-related) costs of higher education. The shares of public and private costs were calculated for students of different so…
Principal Investigator:
- prof. PhDr. Petr Matějů, Ph.D.
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International Project
Analyses of The First Elections in the New Republic, 1992-1996
Mansfeldová, Z. (ed.) 2003. Czech Republic: The First Elections in the New Republic, 1992-1996. Analyses, Documents and Data. Serie WZB: Founding Elections in Eastern Europe. Berlin: edition sigma.The analyses presented in the book Czech R…
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International Project
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Obstacles and opportunities for implementing flexible working arrangements in the Czech Republic
The aim of the research project is to analyze all types of factors influencing the implementation of flexible working arrangements in the Czech Republic. In the analysis we research the flexible working arrangements in the international co…
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- Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Formánková, Ph.D.
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Gender, Work, Parenting
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Ministry Project
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Local Government Cooperation – element of local democracy and effective tool of self-government
A database of cca 2 thousand of new municipalities that gained autonomy by fragmentation of original municipalities was developed in the framework of the two years project. Almost all new municipalities are smaller than 2 thousand of inhabi…
Principal Investigator:
- PhDr. Zdenka Vajdová
Contracting authority:
Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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The Challenge of Socio-economic Cohesion in the Enlarged European Union
The proposed research project, which is structurally based on the comparative analysis of the role of social capital and civil society in achieving the goals of development policy through stimulating social partnerships and improving levels…
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Work – Life Balance from the Perspective of Gender Relations and Social and Employer Policies in the Czech Republic
The project makes a comprehensive study of the conditions for achieving work – life balance in Czech society. It focuses on the legislative, social, political, institutional, employer and individual aspects of how individuals, couples, an…
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Trust and European Integration – a Comparison between Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.
Czech- Bulgarian Joint Research Project (PPP project), together with Institute for the Research of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.2011 - 2013.Czech Coordinator: PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldova, CSc Bulgarian Coordina…
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Local governments in small municipalities and their endogenous development potential
The project focuses on the possibilities and limits of local governments in small municipalities in the Czech Republic (less than 2000 inhabitants) to influence the situation in the community and to make use of its endogenous development po…
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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The Implementation of the International Documentation Standard DDI and the New Technology for Management and Dissemination of the Data at the Sociological Data Archive
The aim of the project is to implement the international stardard for data documentation called Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), to apply NESSTAR tecnology in Sociological Data Archive (SDA) of the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sci…
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Ministry Project
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Historical Milestones in Border-Region Identities in Western Bohemia – Bavaria – How Czechs and Germans Define Themselves and Perceive One Another as Immediate Neighbours
This sociological study of the populations in the neighbouring border regions of Bavaria and Western Bohemia involves research from the perspective of biographic narratives in order to search for differences and similarities in the mentalit…
Principal Investigator:
- Doc. PhDr. Václav Houžvička, Ph.D.
Contracting authority:
International Project
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