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CLOSER – Party Systems and Social Cleavages in the Post-Ottoman Space of the MENA Region

Description: CLOSER is a six-year ERC Synergy Grant project investigating party systems and social cleavages in the post-Ottoman space of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It addresses a major gap in our understanding of part…

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Historical Sociology, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2026 - 2032

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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 …

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2025 - 2027

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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…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2024 - 2028

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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…

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Gender, Parenting, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2021 - 2024

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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.

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Topics:

Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2021 - 2023

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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…

Topics:

Criminality

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2020 - 2023

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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…

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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

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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 …

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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

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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…

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

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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…

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Globalization, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory

Contracting authority:

Other

Project Duration:

2016 - 2022

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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…

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Elites, European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2016 - 2018

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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…

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Legitimacy, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2016 - 2018

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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 …

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Topics:

European Union, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

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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

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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…

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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

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The Role of Economic and Political Elites in Transformation of the Czech Society

 According to the knowledge acquired in the research, the genesis of the new elite in the transformation process proceeded in three modes: firstly, as reproduction and more or less fluent adaptation of the old state socialist elite to the …

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2001 - 2002

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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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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

1999 - 2002

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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…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2007 - 2011

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Citizenship, Publics and the Constitution for Europe: The Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia and Poland in European Integration (ConstEPS)

Coordinated by University of Bremen/FB 8Institute of Political ScienceJean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS)Professor Dr. Ulrike LiebertHomepage: www.monnet-centre.uni-bremen.de Research Project, funded by VolkswagenFoundation in th…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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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…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2007 - 2009

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Employment Problems and Industrial Relations in Central Europe. After the System Transformation: Focusing on the Czech Republic.

Bilateral Czech-Japanese Project, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2000 - 2002

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“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 …

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Topics:

Trust/Social Cohesion

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2011 - 2011

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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…

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Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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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…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2006

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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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Topics:

European Union

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

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