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The Origins, Nature and Impact of Political Knowledge

This project will examine political knowledge among citizens of the advanced democracies in terms of origins, nature and impact.Origins: The question of why there are differences in level of political knowledge across citizens will be exami…

Principal Investigator:

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

Topics:

Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

The Analysis of Voting Behaviour in Elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic 1996 – 2008

The project examines voting behaviour in elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The main objective is to analyse patterns of voting behaviour, the causes and consequences of the varying and generally very low voter…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Tomáš Lebeda, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2007 - 2009

The Quality of Survey Research on Electoral Preferences

The objective is to conduct a professional evaluation of electoral surveys in the Czech Republic. The project will assess all aspects of data quality and availability. We intend to create a review of all existing surveys and gather relevant…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

2001 - 2003

Social inequalities and the market risks following from housing consumption. The real and desirable response of state fiscal and monetary policies

The objective of the project is to make a comprehensive, theoretically framed, and empirically grounded, context-based description of the transformation of housing conditions in the CR after 1990, including both the identification of the ma…

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

Project Duration:

2008 - 2010

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

Decision-Making in Eastern European Cabinets, Projekt European University Institute Florence a University of Duesseldorf, co-ordinated by Prof. Jean Blondel a Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (2003 -2005). National coordinator and investigator.

The Europeanization of the Political Representation in the Czech Republic (2007-2009), head of the project. GA ČR, reg. č. 407/07/1395.

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

Topical Issues of the Formation of Equal Opportunities Policies for Men and Women in Connection with the Preparedness of the Czech Republic for the Accession to the EU

The objective of this sociologically-oriented project is to encourage the development of the following processes: a) implementation of binding European standards for equal opportunities policies for men and women in various spheres of socia…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marie Čermáková

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2000 - 2004

SECONOMICS - Socio-Economics meets Security

Issued by: Evropská komise, FP7-SEC-2011-285223 Time of researching the project: 2012 – 2015, 36 months (1. 2. 2012 –31.1.2015) Coordinator of the project: Professor Dr. Fabio Massacci, University Trento, ItalyProject coordinator for t…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

Economy, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2012 - 2015

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…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jana Klímová Chaloupková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2007 - 2009

Support for Men Taking Parental Leave (MPSV ČR)

The issue of men going on parental leave must be monitored on a legislative, social-psychological, social, institutional and attitudinal levels and on the level of everyday life. As a result, the dynamic of relations between the private and…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Maříková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2002 - 2002

Development interests of border area regions ( Orlicko case)

Differentiation and marginalisation of some social groups is folowed by regionalů differentiation and marginalisation. To map problems on a level of a whole and a region, to discover level of marginalisation of the Czech border area and to…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Vajdová

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2011

Möglichkeiten der sozialpartnerschaftlicher Konfliktregelungen in der Tschechischen und Slowakischen Republik, OeNB Projekt No. 4177, Innsbruck, 1992-1993. Participant

Unequal access to education: the extent, sources, social and economic consequences, policy strategies

A vast number of studies conducted by the OECD and World Bank has well-documented that those countries reforming their educational systems and eliminating a variety of socio-economic barriers causing inequal access to education are today wo…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Petr Matějů, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Project Duration:

2003 - 2008

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession to the EU. Project supported within the program Modern Society by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic …

FEMCIT: Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women’s Movement

While several social movements have contributed to social change in Europe during the last four decades, the goal of FEMCIT is to investigate the role of women’s movements in these transformative processes. FEMCIT will explore the r…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2006 - 2011

Women in Czech science – the Position of Women in the Structures of the Academy of Sciences of the CR between 1953 – 2000 (AS CR)

The subject matter of this sociologically oriented project is the research of professional and life trajectories of women in this scientific institution. The core of the project is a sociological analysis of the structures and dynamics of p…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marie Čermáková

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2001 - 2003

Regional councils in a European perspective

An important part of multi-level governance, regional self-administration has undergone many changes in recent decades both in the old and new democracies, with European integration playing a major role. In the Czech Republic regional self-…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Daniel Čermák, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

PhDr. Daniel Čermák, Ph.D.

Topics:

Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

Articulations of science policies in research practice and academic path

Science and research are increasingly becoming subject to managerial visions and procedures. Building on an international research project Knowledge, institutions and gender: an East–West comparative study (FP 6, 2006–2008, EC) this pro…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Tereza Stöckelová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2009 - 2010

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…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

1999 - 2000

National researcher and consultant in the IREX project: The formation of party system and the consolidation of democracy in East Central Europe, Project holder Prof. Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University, Durham, N.C., USA., 1993-1995.

Deputies and Senators of the Parliament CR in the Third Term

The project of a research into the Members and Senators of the CR Parliament in its third term was a part of long-term monitoring of a development of the new Czech parliamentarianism and new political elite. It was continuous with the resea…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Lubomír Brokl

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

1999 - 2001

In Brűssel angekommen? Die gewerkschaftliche Interessenvertretung der neuen Mitgliedsländer auf EU-Ebene (2006 – 2008), international research project, coordinator: H. Pleines, Forschungstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen. National…

Obstacles and opportunities: factors influencing the decisions of Czech scientists about the return to the Czech Republic from abroad

The aim of the project is to analyze all types of factors, which shape decision-making of Czech scientists and researchers who reside occupationally abroad whether they come back to the Czech Republic or not. The project addresses (through …

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

National Contact Centre - Women and Science III.

A follow-up grant, the activities the Center develops fall into two basic lines. The first is to support women researchers' participation in European research, promote equal opportunities in science and research and support early career …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Kateřina Cidlinská
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Tenglerová
PhDr. Marta Vohlídalová, Ph.D.

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2008 - 2012

Projects

The Origins, Nature and Impact of Political Knowledge

The Analysis of Voting Behaviour in Elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic 1996 – 2008

The Quality of Survey Research on Electoral Preferences

Social inequalities and the market risks following from housing consumption. The real and desirable response of state fiscal and monetary policies

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

Decision-Making in Eastern European Cabinets, Projekt European University Institute Florence a University of Duesseldorf, co-ordinated by Prof. Jean Blondel a Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (2003 -2005). National coordinator and investigator.

The Europeanization of the Political Representation in the Czech Republic (2007-2009), head of the project. GA ČR, reg. č. 407/07/1395.

Topical Issues of the Formation of Equal Opportunities Policies for Men and Women in Connection with the Preparedness of the Czech Republic for the Accession to the EU

SECONOMICS - Socio-Economics meets Security

Transformations in professional and family trajectories in the Czech Republic

Support for Men Taking Parental Leave (MPSV ČR)

Development interests of border area regions ( Orlicko case)

Möglichkeiten der sozialpartnerschaftlicher Konfliktregelungen in der Tschechischen und Slowakischen Republik, OeNB Projekt No. 4177, Innsbruck, 1992-1993. Participant

Unequal access to education: the extent, sources, social and economic consequences, policy strategies

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession to the EU. Project supported within the program Modern Society by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic …

FEMCIT: Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women’s Movement

Women in Czech science – the Position of Women in the Structures of the Academy of Sciences of the CR between 1953 – 2000 (AS CR)

Regional councils in a European perspective

Articulations of science policies in research practice and academic path

The Building of the Archive of Sociological Data

National researcher and consultant in the IREX project: The formation of party system and the consolidation of democracy in East Central Europe, Project holder Prof. Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University, Durham, N.C., USA., 1993-1995.

Deputies and Senators of the Parliament CR in the Third Term

In Brűssel angekommen? Die gewerkschaftliche Interessenvertretung der neuen Mitgliedsländer auf EU-Ebene (2006 – 2008), international research project, coordinator: H. Pleines, Forschungstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen. National…

Obstacles and opportunities: factors influencing the decisions of Czech scientists about the return to the Czech Republic from abroad

National Contact Centre - Women and Science III.

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