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Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation

Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid- 1990's, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Polan d. Legacies of pre-communist rule turn out to play as much a role in accounting for differences as the institutional differences incorporated in the new democratic rules of the game. The book demonstrates various developments within the four countries with regard to different voter appeal of parties, patterns of voter representation, and disp…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Fallstudien zu den Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitsbeziehungen in Polen, Tschechien und der Slowakei

Ausländische Direktinvestitionen haben in Ostmitteleuropa seit 1990 einen erheblichen Modernisierungsschub der Wirtschaften bewirkt. Neue Managementkonzepte, Unternehmensorganisationen und Technik wurden vielfach mit implementiert. Die Arbeitsbeziehungen waren am Anfang entweder noch geprägt von den Bedingungen der Planwirtschaft oder mussten ganz neu gestaltet werden. Das Buch analysiert die entstandenen Modelle der Arbeitsbeziehungen.Foreign direct investment has since 1990 contributed to the considerable …

Topics: Economy, Work, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Česká republika v roce 1993. Politická ročenka

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Česká republika v roce 1994. Politická ročenka

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Markets and People. The Czech Reform Experience in a Comparative Perspective

A large documentation of statistical and sociological surveys is used in this book to present a plastic picture of the transition in the Czech Republic “from below” i.e. as experienced by individuals and households. Other East-Central European and the EU countries serve as a comparative context. The focus in on the economic dimension of the transformation, as displayed in earnings, secondary resources, household incomes and expenditures, financial hardship and poverty. To display the process in its manifol…

Topics: Economy, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Občan a tržní ekonomika. Příjmy, nerovnost a politické postoje v české společnosti

Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Lidské zdroje v České republice

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Work, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Mzdová a příjmová diferenciace v České republice v transformačním období

Wage and income surveys covering the period 1989-1999 are used to display inequality of earnings and main factors of disparities. Increasing differences in the Czech Republic and the decreasing weight of demographic characteristics in wage structure are observed. Introduction of a market economy has led to earnings disparities more similar to those in the West. The "communist" demographic determination of earnings is being replaced to a great extent by "capitalist" market characteristics and ownership disparit…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Communist and transitory income distribution and social structure in the Czech Republic

Large statistical and sociological evidence is gathered to display changes in social structure of Czech society before and after 1989, with a special focus on economic inequalities.…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Transformation, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Česká politika: Ženy v labyrintu mužů?

The main question examined in this book is why are there relatively few Czech women involved in parliamentary politics. Using an empirical analytical approach, this study also investigates public attitudes towards the participation of women in politics in the Czech Republic. In addition, this research also outlines the barriers to women’s entrance to national politics, i.e. individual, social and institutional factors. In surveying policies that aim to increase the number of women in politics this book prese…

Topics: Gender, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Fenomén důvěry ve společnosti

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Rodinná a pracovní uspořádání v kontextu společenských změn v České republice po roce 1989. Proměny rodinných a pracovních startů

This dissertation explores the changes in professional and family starts of young men andwomen in the Czech Republic. It compares an early family and work trajectories of persons,who reached adulthood in 1990s and those theirs family and work starts occurred before 1989.Theoretical and methodological background of this study draws upon a holistic approach tothe life-course study and a sequence analysis. The empirical analyses focus on three domains:1) a normative context of family and work starts, 2) the devel…

Topics: Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Nemanželská plodnost: její rizika a sociální podmínky

Texts in the bulletin provide the reader with various perspectives of unmarried mothers. In the fist part of the publication we find the summary of the demographic development of the non-marital fertility as well as the principal results of multilevel modelling. The second part presents more detailed picture of the social situation of unmarried mothers drawn on the results from specialized survey of mothers. Finally, the third part of the bulletin focuses on the Czech social system and its changes over time, a…

Topics: Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Ten Years of Rebuilding Capitalism: Czech Society after 1989

The book documents the many changes in Czech society after November 1989 and provides an insight into the social life of people as workers, consumers, and citizens. The first part concerns the labor market, business, education, and family. In the second part, changing economic and social inequalities are explained. The third section describes social structure and political attitudes, political parties and electoral behaviour. A chronological series of economic, demografic, social, and political indicators are …

Topics: Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Parliament of the Czech Republic, 1993 - 1998: Factbook

The topic of this book is analyse of activity of the Czech Parliament in first and second electoral period of the House of Deputies (1993-1996 and 1996-1998) and first electoral period of the Senate (1996-1998). The publication is distributed into parts, four chapters and one attachment.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Zpráva o vývoji české společnosti 1989- 1998

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Topics: Work, Family, Social Inequalities, Transformation, Education, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Parties in the Parliament. Why, When and How do Parties Act in Unity? Parliamentary Party Groups in the Chamber of Deputies in the years 1998–2002

The main objective of the work is to answer the question of how Czech MPs and PPGs makedecisions. Thus main concerns of the authors are issues of PPG unity, the adopted mechanismsof internal control and negotiation and, primarily, the factors that influence, structureand restrict the behaviour of individual MPs and PPGs. The work focuses on the 3rd electoralterm of the Chamber of Deputies (1998–2002) in some cases a comparison with previousterms is provided.In the first chapter the authors briefly outline th…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Stranická identifikace v České republice

This study introduces basic models of voting behaviour - sociological, social-psychological and economic ones. It describes in more details the findings and starting points of thesocial-psychological model (or the model of party idetification). The study recapitulates the hitherto findigs related to the voting vehaviour in the Czech Republic in thenineties. As well as the reasons leading to the application of the party identification model to the analyses of voting behaviour. The analysis of voting behaviouris…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Linie štěpení v České republice a v Klatovech. Komparace národní úrovně s příkladem konkrétní lokality

Work focuses on the testing and relevance of three cross-cutting cleavages among voters on the national and the local level. The tested lines include economic populism - market liberalism, libertarianism - authoritarianism, and religion and morality - secularity and tolerance. The data used for the analyses on the national level stem from international research and have been acquired through the use of ' scales', the data used for the analyses on the local level come from specific local research and were acqui…

Topics: Religion and religiosity, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The European Union and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

The European Union and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe examines the influence of the EU on the party politics of the eight post-communist countries that joined the Union in 2004, as well as that of Bulgaria and Romania, from the 1990s and through the first 18 months of EU membership. For much of the decade after the end of communist rule, popular support for EU membership was generally strong, if abstract, in nature and EU influence did not provide the basis for much political conflict or substant…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Vývoj sociální struktury v české společnosti 1988-1999

The study provides the first basic information about the results of the representativesociological survey „Ten Years of Transformation in the Czech Republic“ related to theeconomically active population. It compares social stratification data from 1993 and the end of1999, showing that the social differentiation deepened and that the status consistency did notincrease any more. This was caused by the problems that slowed down the economic growth inthe second half of the 1990s. The intrageneration social mob…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Zrod a další vývoj nových elit v České republice (od konce osmdesátých let 20. století do jara 2002)

The study summarizes the results of the authors’ nearly decade-long effort (related to thestudy of the post-socialist transformation of Czech society) to gain an empirical and theoreticalknowledge of the process of how social elites are created and consolidated. Socialelites are understood primarily as the foremost stratification groupings, which enter intocomplicated interactions with the social system, its economic and political institutionalstructures, as well as the sphere of culture and its structures. …

Topics: Elites, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Transformace a modernizační výzvy. Česko - Německo - Maďarsko - Polsko - Slovensko

The book is a new, original re-elaboration of the problems discussed in the course of the international symposium in Prague, May 2001. It represents a critical reflection of the present state of postsocialist transformation in Central Europe facing the new challenges of modernization. Besides broader texts prepared by Czech, German, Hungarian and Polish national teams, it involves a series of discussion and expertsŽ contributions by sociologists from 11, prevailingly European countries. The texts are based on…

Topics: Sociological Data, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Současná česká společnost. Sociologické studie

Topics: Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Jak je v Česku vnímána práce

This publication introduces readers to the concept of ´quality of work life´, its relationship to the quality of life in general, and various perspectives on and interpretations of these categories. The main part of the publication is an analysis of the results of an empirical survey on ´The Quality of Work Life´, which presents a picture of how citizens in the Czech Republic perceive work, how they evaluate their work life and how satisfied they are with it.…

Topics: Work, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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