Finished projects

Objective and Subjective Assessments of the Financial Affordability of Housing in the Czech Republic during the 1990s

This study looks at assessments of the financial affordability of housing in the Czech Republic over the course of the 1990s, drawn from two mutually complementary perspectives: on the basis of verified data, detailing the levels of househo…

Principal Investigator:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Reducing the security threats of corruption and organized crime in the Czech Republic

This project seeks to prevent serious security threats to the Czech state via organized crime and corruption by addressing the mechanisms by which those crimes take place. The project will design and propose legislative and non-legislative …

Principal Investigator:

Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.

Topics:

Corruption, Criminality

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre - Parliamentary DICe

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre came into existence on the base of a set of information, data and analysis stemming from researches of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and parliaments of other post-communist Central E…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Lubomír Brokl

Members of the project team:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Economic Policy Making and Parliamentary Accountability in Czech Republic part of the international comparative project, co-ordinated by United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) at United Nations, Geneva, 2002-2001, head of…

PARTNER- Partnership and Participation in Local Public Administration: Meaning, Experiences and Promises.

Main goal of this project is to identify how local communities understand to idea of partnership and participation, to what extent and with what instruments is participation realized and what structures of partnership are created between …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Daniel Čermák, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Central European Centre for Women and Youth in Science (CEC-WYS)

The two primary objectives of the Centre are: 1) to promote, mobilise and network women in science in Central Europe, and thus to contribute to increasing gender equality in R&D and to structuring the European Research Area 2) to promote, m…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

The Migratory Patterns of Foreigners (and Natives) in the Czechia: Concentration or Diusion Processes?

The presented project fills some gaps in research on international migration, especially the secondary migration of immigrants. The explanation of the features of internal mobility of immigrants and its impact on socio-spatial differentiati…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Topics:

Migration and Mobility

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

CESSDA - PPP: Preparatory phase project for a major upgrade of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) research infrastructure

This project arises as a direct result of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) Research Infrastructure (RI) being identified by ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) Roadmap exercise as an exis…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

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…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Formánková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender, Work, Parenting

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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

Department:

Local and regional studies

Methods and Effectiveness of Interest Mediation Between Individuals, Social Groups and the State. Project supported within the program “Modern Society” by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic (2003). Head of the project.

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, …

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

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Civil Society

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

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.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Objective and Subjective Assessments of the Financial Affordability of Housing in the Czech Republic during the 1990s

Reducing the security threats of corruption and organized crime in the Czech Republic

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre - Parliamentary DICe

Economic Policy Making and Parliamentary Accountability in Czech Republic part of the international comparative project, co-ordinated by United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) at United Nations, Geneva, 2002-2001, head of…

PARTNER- Partnership and Participation in Local Public Administration: Meaning, Experiences and Promises.

Central European Centre for Women and Youth in Science (CEC-WYS)

The Migratory Patterns of Foreigners (and Natives) in the Czechia: Concentration or Diusion Processes?

CESSDA - PPP: Preparatory phase project for a major upgrade of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) research infrastructure

Analyses of The First Elections in the New Republic, 1992-1996

Obstacles and opportunities for implementing flexible working arrangements in the Czech Republic

Local Government Cooperation – element of local democracy and effective tool of self-government

Methods and Effectiveness of Interest Mediation Between Individuals, Social Groups and the State. Project supported within the program “Modern Society” by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic (2003). Head of the project.

The Housing Market in Prague from the Perspective of Economic Sociology: “Transitive” Factors behind the High Prices of Owner-Occupied housing

EU Enlargement, Gender and Political Power: The Civic and Political Participation of Women and the Representation of Women’s Interests in EU Candidate Countries

Persistence and change of voting patterns in the territory of the Czech Republic since the introduction of universal suffrage (causes and consequences)

Public/private funding of higer education: a social balance

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