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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

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

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

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

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

Health & Family - ISSP 2011 and 2012

The association between the family and psychological and physical health has become a major theme in the sociological, demographic, and epidemiological literatures. On the one hand, significant attention has been devoted to the consequences…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Dana Hamplová, PhD.

Topics:

Family, Public health

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2011 - 2014

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

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

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

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:

Doc. PhDr. Lukáš Linek, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2005 - 2007

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…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Plecitá, Ph.D.

Topics:

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

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

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

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment of EU based Companies on the Labour Relations in EU Candidate Countries - Taking the Examples of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Project of the University of Bremen, Institute Labour and Economy, Coordinator Dr. Jochen Tholen. Project was sponsored by Hans-Böckler-Foundation Düsseldorf and Otto Brenner Foundation Frankfurt/M – Berlin. The objective of the study a…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2003 - 2005

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

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

1997 - 1998

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

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

Members of the project team:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2000 - 2004

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

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

The Social Capital and Social Policy Network (SCSPN): Social Cohesion, Trust and Participation: Social Capital, Social Policy and Social Cohesion in the European Union and Candidate Countries

In the first part, we comment issue of social capital and third sector in the Czech Republic with specific focus on NGOs, civic participation and social trust. Public policy in the civic sector is discussed. In the second part, we review li…

Principal Investigator:

Ivo Bayer, M.A.
PhDr. Jiří Šafr, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2006 - 2006

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…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Plecitá, Ph.D.

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

Projects

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

Europeanization of Political Representation in the Czech Republic

European Political Elites in Comparison: the Long Road to Convergence

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

Denki Rengo Survey III: Quality of working life

Health & Family - ISSP 2011 and 2012

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

SECONOMICS - Socio-Economics meets Security

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

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

ISSP 2013 - National identity III

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

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment of EU based Companies on the Labour Relations in EU Candidate Countries - Taking the Examples of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

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

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

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

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre - Parliamentary DICe

The Origins, Nature and Impact of Political Knowledge

Deputies and Senators of the Parliament CR in the Third Term

The Social Capital and Social Policy Network (SCSPN): Social Cohesion, Trust and Participation: Social Capital, Social Policy and Social Cohesion in the European Union and Candidate Countries

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

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