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Constructions of breadwinning in Czech society after 1989

The  project concentrates on the phenomenon of breadwinning in the Czech Republic after 1989 which has not been so far systematically researched in Czech sociology and which is firmly linked to many areas of social reality, especially to…

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

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The Building of the Archive of Sociological Data

Thanks to the project, SDA has developed into an infrastructure that is able to provide data and other services on a standard level for non-commercial social research and teaching. The project systematically created conditions for activitie…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

1999 - 2000

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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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“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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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 …

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Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2007 - 2009

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The Context of Changes in the Labour Market and Forms of Private, Family and Partner Life in Czech Society

The objective of the project is to identify the main changes in the labour market and to study their context and impact on the organisation of private life among Czech people. The project focuses on the changing forms of partner and family …

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Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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Creation of the Czech node of the pan-European project of the large research infrastructure European Social Survey (ESS – survey)

The main aim of the ESS – survey project is creation of the national node of the ESS ERIC (www.europeansocialsurvey.org) in the Czech Republic and the realization of the fifth, sixth and seventh round of ESS survey. The European Social Su…

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Topics:

Value Orientations, Intergenerational Relations, Interpersonal Relations, Family, Age and Aging, Public health, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2010 - 2015

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Changes in partnership and family forms and arrangements from the life course perspective

In the last two decades, there have been major changes in the forms of private (partnership and family) life in the Czech Republic (CR). Several research projects focused on their patterns we will add a life course perspective to perform th…

Principal Investigator:

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

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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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Information Needs Analysis: What Do You Want to Know about the European Union?

The aim of the project was to discover: what are the EU information sources used by citizenswhether or not they look for this type of information themselveswhether or not they consider the information they receive pertaining to the EU trust…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

1997 - 1998

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Legitimacy of the Political System and Inequalities: The Development in the Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

The project aims to increase the knowledge about the perceptions of the relation between the political and distributive systems legitimacy. It also focuses on problems of social inequalities and social capital. The instruments used and the …

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2005 - 2007

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Kontraurbanizace v České republice: migrace na venkov, životní styl a proměny rezidenčních preferencí

Grantová agentura University Karlovy v Praze, projekt č. 104810. Web projektu: http://www.urrlab.cz/?kontraurbanizace=…

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Regional disparities in availability and affordability of housing, their socio-economic consequences and tools directed to increase availability and affordability of housing and decrease the regional disparities

The project will reveal, quantify and analyze actual regional disparities (among regions NUTS 3) in availability and affordability of housing in the Czech Republic. The time series describing the development of such disparities will be prov…

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Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2007 - 2011

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Life Strategies in the Czech Business Sphere in the Nineties

The subject of this sociologically oriented project is a case study of the lives of businessmen and businesswomen in contemporary Czech society. The project offers a comprehensive analysis of social and political mechanisms affecting profes…

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2001 - 2003

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ISSP 2013 - National identity III

After 1989, national identity became a major research topic in the social sciences. In the first half of the 1990´s, Europe experienced a series of events that brought attention of scientists to the issue of national identity - disintegrat…

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Topics:

Trust/Social Cohesion, Identity, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

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A Comparative Analysis of Family Support in Central and Eastern Europe. The Model Family Method

There is today no definitive agreement among social scientists about the nature of family policies in Central and Eastern European countries(CEE). Often national family policies are evaluated using general macro-level criteria, where the fi…

Principal Investigator:

  • Mgr. Eva Mitchell

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

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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

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2000 - 2004

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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:

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2011

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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:

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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The Migratory Patterns of Foreigners (and Natives) in the Czechia: Concentration or Di usion 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…

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Topics:

Migration and Mobility

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

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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…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

2007 - 2008

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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…

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Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2002 - 2003

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