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SoGreen. Social Aspects of the Green Transition

SoGreen project captures public attitudes, experiences, and behavioural responses to environmental policies and conditions. Key themes include energy and transport poverty, job security, access to infrastructure, and public engagement with …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Plecitá, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2025 - 2027

Infra4NextGen: Providing research infrastructure services to support Next Generation EU

This four-year project will harness outputs from key social science RIs in Europe and other reliable sources to support the aims of the ‘Next Generation EU’ programme and to inform EU youth policy. Virtual access will be provided to the…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Plecitá, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2024 - 2028

Diversity of childcare attitudes and parenting practices: Their sources and outcomes

This project systematically explores a variation in attitudes to childcare and parental practices in the Czech Republic, with a comparative perspective. In contemporary developed societies, an ‘intensive parenting’ model, which places h…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jana Klímová Chaloupková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender, Parenting, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2021 - 2024

Issues, Leaders, Candidates and the Media in the Czech Parliamentary Election of 2021

This project will examine the impact of party (issue) competition and election campaigning on electoral behaviour during the 2021 Czech parliamentary elections. This research will study the growing importance of issues and party leaders in …

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2021 - 2023

Factors for reoffending and the process of desistance in the context of conditional release

The aim of the project is to make the tools and means of criminal policy, which lead to reducing reoffending, more effective. The research goal is to identify individual and social factors that significantly contribute to desistance. On thi…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Eva Krulichová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Criminality

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2020 - 2023

ESS-SUSTAIN-2

Cílem projektu bylo rekrutací respondentů z ESS Round 10 (2020-22) vytvořit CROss-National Online Survey 2 (CRONOS-2) - první pravděpodobnostní mezinárodní webový panel. Harmonizované mezinárodní a národní výzkumy probíhaly…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Plecitá, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

PhDr. Jaroslava Pospíšilová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Trust/Social Cohesion, Economy, Internet, Climate Change, Research Methodology, Family, Social Policy, Public health, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2020 - 2024

The Reconfiguration of Political Landscape - Explaining Independent Candidates Lists in Elections to Municipal Councils in the Czech Republic

The project focuses on an alternative form of representation on the local level which are independent (local) lists (ILLs). ILLs have been part of many established democracies as well as of new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe for …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2020 - 2022

Level and sources of electoral volatility in post-communist Europe

The project analyses the level and sources of electoral volatility in post-communist countries. This project focuses on individual-level volatility in consecutive parliamentary elections by examining electoral participation and party choice…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Lukáš Linek, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2019 - 2021

Global Conflicts and Local Interactions: Cultural and Social Challenges

Research programme within Strategy AV21 focuses on global conflicts and their local interactions which present important cultural and social challenges in the 21st century. It analyses cultural and social transformations with regard to inte…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Marek Hrubec, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Globalization, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory

Contracting authority:

Other

Project Duration:

2016 - 2022

EUENGAGE - Bridging the Gap between Public Opinion and European Leadership: Engaging a Dialogue on the Future Path of Europe

The aim of the project is to investigate the views of European political representatives on the current state of European integration. The survey focuses in particular on the views of members of national parliaments such as you on the abili…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

Elites, European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2016 - 2018

Changes in the Perception of the Role of Government After the Crisis. The Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

The project offers a comparative perspective of changes in perception of the role of the state and form of responsible governance in the Czech Republic after the financial and economic crisis, which in addition to changing redistributive ex…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Legitimacy, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2016 - 2018

The Europeanization of Trade Unions in the Countries of the Eastern Enlargement. Perspectives for Interest Representation by Trade Unions and for Trade Union Solidarity within the EU

The research project analyses the integration of trade unions from the countries of the EU´s Eastern enlargement into EU governance structures. Additionally the project wants to establish which strategies the trade unions follow in their …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

European Union, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

Protestors in Context: An Integrated and Comparative Analysis of democratic citizenship in the Czech Republic

De Tocqueville (1835) theorised that the exercise of citizen power in democracies depends fundamentally on both equality and active participation in public affairs. Consequently, political inequality will arise from differences in participa…

Principal Investigator:

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

Topics:

Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2013 - 2016

Dynamics of change in Czech society

Project summary:This project will examine the Dynamics of Change in Czech Society using a household panel survey research design. Applying insights from sociology, economics and politics this study will examine five themes: Family life, ti…

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Politics and Political Attitudes, Work, Family, Social Inequalities, Education

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2014 - 2018

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession the the EU

The project examines the legal and institutional environment in the Czech Republic, the effect of the most prominent collective actors prior to its accession to the European Union, and changes that are occuring due to the process of Europea…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

“Social Apathy and Trust in the Civil Society: Czech – Taiwanese Comparison“, PPP Czech-Taiwanese Joint Research Project 2011. Project coordinator for the Czech part.

SummaryThe positive role of civil society, such as the contribution to the regime change and to the consolidation of democracy is highlighted in numerous literatures. However, until today, fewer authors were concentrating on the systematic …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

Trust/Social Cohesion

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2011 - 2011

NEWGOV - New Modes of Governance

The aim of this Integrated Project is to produce a deeper conceptual, empirical and normative understanding of all aspects of governance within and beyond Europe, giving special attention to the emergence, execution, evaluation and evolutio…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2006

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

European Union

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

Participation, Democracy and Citizenship in the Czech Republic and International Comparison

An international comparative quantitative survey was conducted as a part of the project. The project also examines legal norms and definitions of the excercise of civil and political rights today and historically, describes the fromation of…

Principal Investigator:

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

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2003 - 2005

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

Project Duration:

2002 - 2004

European Political Elites in Comparison: the Long Road to Convergence

ESF Scientific Network Project, co-ordinated by Heinrich Best (University of Jena) and Maurizio Cotta (University of Siena).…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2002 - 2004

Europeanization of Political Representation in the Czech Republic

This research project adresses central questions within the study of parliamentary representation in the Czech Republic. Our study is focused on three themes: (1) Parlamentarians - who are Czech republic's political representatives and how …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2007 - 2009

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

Project Duration:

1997 - 1999

Citizens and the State in the Czech Republic:The Impact and Legacy of the Prague Spring 1968-2008

This project examines the nature of citizenship in the Czech Republic and the legacy of the Prague Spring 1968. In early May 1968 a mass survey undertaken for the communist party leadership investigated public attitudes toward democratisati…

Principal Investigator:

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

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2008 - 2009

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

Project Duration:

2004 - 2004

Projects

SoGreen. Social Aspects of the Green Transition

Infra4NextGen: Providing research infrastructure services to support Next Generation EU

Diversity of childcare attitudes and parenting practices: Their sources and outcomes

Issues, Leaders, Candidates and the Media in the Czech Parliamentary Election of 2021

Factors for reoffending and the process of desistance in the context of conditional release

ESS-SUSTAIN-2

The Reconfiguration of Political Landscape - Explaining Independent Candidates Lists in Elections to Municipal Councils in the Czech Republic

Level and sources of electoral volatility in post-communist Europe

Global Conflicts and Local Interactions: Cultural and Social Challenges

EUENGAGE - Bridging the Gap between Public Opinion and European Leadership: Engaging a Dialogue on the Future Path of Europe

Changes in the Perception of the Role of Government After the Crisis. The Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

The Europeanization of Trade Unions in the Countries of the Eastern Enlargement. Perspectives for Interest Representation by Trade Unions and for Trade Union Solidarity within the EU

Protestors in Context: An Integrated and Comparative Analysis of democratic citizenship in the Czech Republic

Dynamics of change in Czech society

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession the the EU

“Social Apathy and Trust in the Civil Society: Czech – Taiwanese Comparison“, PPP Czech-Taiwanese Joint Research Project 2011. Project coordinator for the Czech part.

NEWGOV - New Modes of Governance

Trust and European Integration – a Comparison between Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

Participation, Democracy and Citizenship in the Czech Republic and International Comparison

Czech Political Parties after Ten Years

European Political Elites in Comparison: the Long Road to Convergence

Europeanization of Political Representation in the Czech Republic

Denki Rengo Survey III: Quality of working life

Citizens and the State in the Czech Republic:The Impact and Legacy of the Prague Spring 1968-2008

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

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