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Endogenní rozvojové potenciály malých obcí a místní samospráva

This study focuses on the development of small rural municipalities, their endogenous developmental potential, and the role of the local authority in setting and achieving development goals. The authors apply a complex approach to examine the issue of local development. Given that small rural municipalities above all fulfil a residential and recreational function, the concept of local development here also encompasses social changes in the municipality that positively affect its population’s quality of life …

Topics: City and Village, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Základní charakteristiky členské základny KDU-ČSL

This study describes the socio-demographic structure of the membership base of the Christian Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party (KDU-ČSL) and the party’s voters. It is based on a questionnaire survey carried out among the party’s membership base in the middle of 2005. Only part of the survey’s results is used in this study. The membership base is examined according to when member-respondents joined the party and where they reside – Bohemia or Moravia. The analysis focuses mainly on…

Topics: Sociological Data, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Volby do Senátu 1996 až 2008

The book examines elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic during all its previous existence. The main objective is to analyze the impact of majority electoral system and specifics of the candidates´ support in elections. This also book focuses on electoral success and representation of individual parties. Then we look at long-term record low turnout.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Mimomanželská plodnost v České republice po roce 1989: sociální a ekonomické souvislosti

This volume is devoted to the subject of non-marital fertility in the Czech Republic during the period between 1990 and 2005.…

Topics: Parenting, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Zobrazování nerovností a hodnotová poselství v časopisech pro děti a mládež na příkladu časopisu Bravo

Essay examines content of magazine Bravo from the point of view of life style intermediation, inequality reproduction and value orientation. Values that the magazine shows on young celebrities’ stories are success, diligence, independence, physical attraction and traditional family values. In the sections pointed on advices in the field of relationship dominate values as private happiness, personal benefit and self-fulfilment. The magazine lays emphasis on visual aspects and attractiveness as a precondition …

Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Media, Social Inequalities, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Fenomén bezdětnosti v sociologické a demografické perspektivě

The study examines the phenomenon of voluntary and involuntary childlessness, focusing in particular on its occurrence in Czech society. The aim of the study is to analyse childlessness (the current increase in the number of people who remain childless, the decline in fertility, and the postponement of childbearing) in Czech society in the context of a) how these phenomena are reflected professionally and in the Czech media, b) international demographic data on childlessness, and c) how these phenomena and chi…

Topics: Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Český parlament ve druhé dekádě demokratického vývoje

The Czech political system is construed as a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral Parliament the Parliament’s role is key even with regard to its role in creating other political institutions. The presented study deals successively with the legislative process, the role of political parties in the system of representation, the relationship between parliament and government, characteristics of deputies. The last chapter analyses the role of deputies and its perception by deputies. The study made use a bro…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Participace, demokracie a občanství v evropském kontextu

This study focuses on the relationship between participation and citizenship and their influence on the formation and functioning of effective representative democracy. In the first part of the study the authors introduce the theoretical framework they apply to their study of democracy, participation and citizenship. In the second part, which contains an analysis of democracy, they outline a practical framework of how democracy functions and apply this in further analysis using data from the ISSP 2004 on citiz…

Topics: Civil Society, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Rodinné a pracovní dráhy mladých: holistická perspektiva

This study focuses on work and family trajectories between the ages of 18 and 35. It uses sequence analysis, which provides a complex description of trajectories in the holistic way. Based on module on work and family history collected as a part of ISSP 2002 in the Czech Republic, types of early work and family trajectories of cohorts born 1919–1967 are identified and the development of diversity of trajectories across cohorts is explored.…

Topics: Work, Parenting, Family, Age and Aging

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Aplikace principů partnerství a participace v prostředí malých měst České republiky

In this volume of Sociological Studies, readers are presented with the results of a number of studies that examined the participation of citizens in the decision-making process at the local level and in the partnership between public administration (the municipal authorities) and NGOs or even businesses. The objective of the authors of the individual chapters in this volume was to contribute to the understanding of how the principles of the democratic administration of society are applied in the Czech Republic…

Topics: City and Village, Civil Society, Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Autonomie a spolupráce: důsledky ustavení obecního zřízení v roce 1990

This study examines two processes that public administration went through at the local level beginning in the early 1990s: a process whereby municpalities were broken up into autonomous units, and a process whereby these autonomous municipalities voluntarily came together to form cooperative groups or unions of municipalities. The study also contains a discussion of the size of municipalities, the effectiveness of their administration, a review of inter-municipal cooperation in some European countries, and loo…

Topics: City and Village, Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Sociální kapitál v České republice a v mezinárodním srovnání

Jakou roli může hrát sociální kapitál v teoriích regionálního rozvoje? Jaké jsou souvislosti sociálního kapitálu v České republice? Jaký vztah je mezi sociálním kapitálem jednotlivců a jejich sociodemografickým, sociokulturním, socioekonomickým a teritoriálním zázemím? A jak si stojí české regiony v úrovni sociálního kapitálu v kontextu evropských regionů? To jsou základní otázky, na které se Sociologické studie Sociální kapitál v České republice a v mezinárodním…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Genderová segregace českého trhu práce. Kvantitativní a kvalitativní obraz

This publication presents a quantitative look at the issue of gender segregation – a statistical image – and a qualitative image of the social reality of women’s labour as portrayed in contemporary Czech television serials. The analysis showed that the Czech labour market continues to be and has long been heavily segregated and the degree of segregation is only decreasing very slowly. The interconnected gender system of prestige, segregation, wage differences between men and women, and the aspects and co…

Topics: Gender, Media, Work

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Problémové čtvrti ve městě a politiky k jejich regeneraci - případová studie Prahy

This study presents an analysis of regeneration policies in the City of Prague, which serves as one out of a series of case studies conducted as a part of a large international comparative study of regeneration policies. Based on the study of documents and interviews with actors involved in regeneration at the city level and in two selected model neighbourhoods more general conclusions are formulated about the spatial policies of regeneration in the City of Prague.…

Topics: Regions, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Česká religiozita na počátku 3. tisíciletí. Výsledky Mezinárodního programu sociálního výzkumu ISSP 2008 - Náboženství

The study analyses data from the Czech ISSP 2008. First, we analyze the traditional measures of religiosity. We show that the decline in church membership is typical for small churches with mass membership while smaller churches experience a relatively dynamic growth. Afterwards, we shift our attention from the religious behavior to beliefs. We show that the believe in the existence of the supernatural is widely spread in the Czech Republic but that the majority of the population does not perceive this belief …

Topics: Value Orientations, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Socioekonomické hodnoty, politiky a instituce v období vstupu České republiky do Evropské unie

The volume presents a study of some of the central dimensions of the complex changes Czechsociety has experienced in connection with the transformation after 1989 and the country’s accessionto the European Union. It expands on standard mainstream economic, sociological and politicalscience approaches to also take into account the historical dimensions of these processes.The study is methodologically grounded in the tradition of economic sociology and the conceptualisationof economic culture it also analyses …

Topics: Economy, European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

První volby do Senátu. Analýza voleb do Senátu Parlamentu České republiky v roce 1996

The first Senate elections raised the question of the purpose of electing a representative body, whose existence have not been clearly explained or defended by its creators. The most common reason voters had for not participating in the 1996 Senate elections was their disagreement with the very its existence. These elections were the first experience with the two-round majority system. The Senate elections also showed that voters largely followed similar patterns to the Chamber of Deputies.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Nerovnost, spravedlnost, politika. Česká republika 1991-1998

This mongrph is a result of the research, which took lace between 1991 and 1998and was focused primarily on pure sociological problems, concerning objectiveand subjective views on social stratification in the Czech Republic. It dealswith the development of social-economic status, perception fo social mobilityand social inequalities and with the formation of distributive justice norms.It contains also an analysis of the crystalisation of political attitudes, political orientations, of the role of values in voti…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Výzkumy stranických preferencí, jejich uplatnění ve společnosti a jejich kvalita

The purpose of the study is to familiarise readers with the issue of how results of social sample surveys are applied in a democratic society, and to provide an overview of Czech surveys, their types and methodology, and make a critical assessment of Czech survey research in comparison with the internationally recognised criteria for social research.…

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Kvalita výzkumu volebních preferencí

Collection of scientific based studies provides an overview of Czech election survey research and comments the issues relating to the quality and the use of results, e.g. importance for representative democracy, impact of the publication of results, relationship between research industry and journalism, conceptualisation of party identification, main approaches to evaluation of quality, construction of the questionnaires, etc. The book includes also a chapter devoted to research in Slovakia.…

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

České veřejné mínění: výzkum a teoretické souvislosti

The publication is collection of articles and its main aim is to offer complex overview of results of continual surveys made by CVVM SOÚ AV ČR where words such public, public opinion or media are in the centre of theoretical diskursus. Wide social and historical context together with data analyse of concrete survey results create unigue contribution to current topics and questions of public opinion research. The book is especially for proffesional users of survey results, mainly for journalists, social and p…

Topics: Media, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Three Roads to Comparative Research: Analytical, Visual and Morphological

The aim of the book is twofold, (1) to provide a comparative summaries on Central and Eastern Europe focused on a variety of topics, ranging from work flexibility to the role of women, (2) to present new ways for comparative research, one with help of new visualisation tools and the other with new forms of analyses, which are able to process large quantities of currently unused but available data sets.…

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Sociální kapitál a dopady ekonomické krize v regionech. Kraj Vysočina a Ústecký kraj

A role of social capital and of its individual dimensions working at overcoming the impacts of economic crises is analysed. Study focuses on a detailed analysis of the inhabitants of the Kraj Vysočina with a supposed high level of social capital, and of Ustecky kraj with a supposed low level of social capital. Multidimensional statistical methods are used to analyse data collected by survey in these regions in 2010. The aspects of social capital are identified that play an important role to overcome the impac…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Economy, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Social Capital, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Otisky historie v regionálních identitách obyvatel pohraničí. Sebedefinice a vzájemné vnímání Čechů a Němců v přímém sousedství

This study refers to the research perception of inhabitants of border regions of Bavaria and western Bohemia. The analysis of the impacts of historical consciousness on the creation of regional identity is based on empirical survey of biographical identities, which was carried out in the regions of the Cyech Republic and Bavaria closed to the border, during the summer 2004.…

Topics: Identity, Interpersonal Relations, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Mnohohlasem. Vyjednávání ženských prostorů po roce 1989

For its strong informative value and its description of the multifarious activities of pro-women and feminist groups the publication In Multiple Voices (Mnohohlasem) will certainly be welcome reading among the academic, political and activist communities. The book shows that what lies behind the apparent lack of interest among Czech women in feminism is their rejection of the discriminatory “label” from its opponents. “One who names is in a position of superiority to what is named” (I. Noble), and ther…

Topics: European Union, Gender, Media, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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