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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

Project Duration:

2005 - 2007

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

Project Duration:

2003 - 2006

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

Project Duration:

2012 - 2015

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

Project Duration:

2006 - 2007

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

Project Duration:

1999 - 2002

The Implementation of the International Documentation Standard DDI and the New Technology for Management and Dissemination of the Data at the Sociological Data Archive

The aim of the project is to implement the international stardard for data documentation called Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), to apply NESSTAR tecnology in Sociological Data Archive (SDA) of the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sci…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

Institutionalisierung demokratischen Strukturen in postsozialistischen Gesellschaften /eine empirische Vergleichstudie von symbolisch-integrativen Mobilisierungsstrategien neuer politischen Akteure in Polen, Ungarn und der Tschechoslowakei …

Historical Milestones in Border-Region Identities in Western Bohemia – Bavaria – How Czechs and Germans Define Themselves and Perceive One Another as Immediate Neighbours

This sociological study of the populations in the neighbouring border regions of Bavaria and Western Bohemia involves research from the perspective of biographic narratives in order to search for differences and similarities in the mentalit…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Václav Houžvička, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Project Duration:

2002 - 2004

Research Network on The Impact of EU Enlargement on Central European Party Systems and Electoral Alignments, project supported by British Academy (2004-2008). Participant.

The Challenge of Socio-economic Cohesion in the Enlarged European Union

The proposed research project, which is structurally based on the comparative analysis of the role of social capital and civil society in achieving the goals of development policy through stimulating social partnerships and improving levels…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2005 - 2006

Work – Life Balance from the Perspective of Gender Relations and Social and Employer Policies in the Czech Republic

The project makes a comprehensive study of the conditions for achieving work – life balance in Czech society. It focuses on the legislative, social, political, institutional, employer and individual aspects of how individuals, couples, an…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2005 - 2007

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

Local governments in small municipalities and their endogenous development potential

The project focuses on the possibilities and limits of local governments in small municipalities in the Czech Republic (less than 2000 inhabitants) to influence the situation in the community and to make use of its endogenous development po…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

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

The CR Parliament Representatives 1996. The second Stage of Research. GA CR No. 403/96/0388 (1996-1997). Participant

InTune - Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an ‘ever closer Europe’

INTUNE is a research project whose aim is to study the changes in the scope, nature and characteristics of citizenship that result from the process of the deepening and enlargement of the European Union. Its focus is on how integration and …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2005 - 2009

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

Social capital as a factor influencing regional disparities and regional development

The object of the research is disclosing of the basic features of regional disparities with regard to the role and importance of social and human capital in the regional development. The project testifies the hypotheses expressing the relat…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jana Stachová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Economy

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2007 - 2011

Parenthood after Partners Break Up – Parental Roles and the Identity of Divorced Mothers and Fathers

The subject of the project is a sociological study of parenthood in the Czech Republic after partners break up as experienced on the one hand by the mothers who have been granted custody of the child (children) and on the other hand by the …

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2006

CESSDA.CZ The CESSDA Project: Building a CESSDA-ERIC focal point in the Czech Republic and integrating it into the large pan-European research infrastructure of data services for socio-economic research

The main objective of this project is to build the Czech node of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and to ensure Czech participation in the establishment and operation of this European distributed research inf…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Topics:

Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

2010 - 2015

The History and Present of Czech Sociology

Czech sociology has been through enormous development since 1989, when it was freed from the constraints of ideology, and it is now gradually returning to the international stage. Persecuted and exiled scholars were able to rejoin the ac…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Topics:

Historical Sociology

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

The analysis of housing policy tools aiming to support the labour flexibility in the Czech Republic

The main goal of the project was to analyze the significance of the relation between housing tenure, existing and potential housing policy tools including rent regulation, on one side, and labour mobility, on the second side, in the Czech R…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2005 - 2006

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre, Project supported by Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000-2004). Participant.

Detraditionalization and individualization of religion in the Czech Republic and their socio-political and socio-economic consequences

The project aims to analyze processes of detraditionalization, individualization and privatization of religious values and forms of religious life in contemporary Czech society, including implicit ones and their functional equivalents. Alth…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Topics:

Religion and religiosity

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

Projects

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

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

The Implementation of the International Documentation Standard DDI and the New Technology for Management and Dissemination of the Data at the Sociological Data Archive

Institutionalisierung demokratischen Strukturen in postsozialistischen Gesellschaften /eine empirische Vergleichstudie von symbolisch-integrativen Mobilisierungsstrategien neuer politischen Akteure in Polen, Ungarn und der Tschechoslowakei …

Historical Milestones in Border-Region Identities in Western Bohemia – Bavaria – How Czechs and Germans Define Themselves and Perceive One Another as Immediate Neighbours

Research Network on The Impact of EU Enlargement on Central European Party Systems and Electoral Alignments, project supported by British Academy (2004-2008). Participant.

The Challenge of Socio-economic Cohesion in the Enlarged European Union

Work – Life Balance from the Perspective of Gender Relations and Social and Employer Policies in the Czech Republic

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

Local governments in small municipalities and their endogenous development potential

European Political Elites in Comparison: the Long Road to Convergence

The CR Parliament Representatives 1996. The second Stage of Research. GA CR No. 403/96/0388 (1996-1997). Participant

InTune - Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an ‘ever closer Europe’

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

Social capital as a factor influencing regional disparities and regional development

Parenthood after Partners Break Up – Parental Roles and the Identity of Divorced Mothers and Fathers

CESSDA.CZ The CESSDA Project: Building a CESSDA-ERIC focal point in the Czech Republic and integrating it into the large pan-European research infrastructure of data services for socio-economic research

The History and Present of Czech Sociology

The analysis of housing policy tools aiming to support the labour flexibility in the Czech Republic

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre, Project supported by Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000-2004). Participant.

Detraditionalization and individualization of religion in the Czech Republic and their socio-political and socio-economic consequences

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