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Století evangelických časopisů 1849–1948. Časopisy v dějinách „lidových“ protestantských církví v Čechách a na Moravě

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Náboženství v 19. století. Nejcírkevnější století, nebo období zrodu českého ateismu?

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Příliš slábi ve víře. Česká ne/religiozita v evropském kontextu

Příliš slábi ve víře. Česká ne/religiozita v evropském kontextu

Using historical and sociological methods, the autor analyzes situation of religion in modern Czech society and compares it with religious processes occuring in other European countries.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Variety české religiozity v „dlouhém“ 19. století (1780-1918)

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Zajištění potřeb seniorů s důrazem na roli nestátního sektoru

Zajištění potřeb seniorů s důrazem na roli nestátního sektoru

The text gives an overview of the current situation in the field of social services for older people with an emphasis on the fragile elderly provided by nongovernmental, not-for-profit bodies. The report has three main parts linked by the concept of needs. The first part of the report provides a comprehensive overview of the ageing of the Czech population and its impact on the present and future needs of social care services. The second part summarises the concept of needs and their specific forms in old age f…

Topics: Civil Society, Care, Age and Aging, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Péče o děti předškolního a raného školního věku

The study describes and assesses range, conditions and variability of providing day care for children of pre-school and early-school age. The aim of the research was to supply missing statistical data with less accessible information. Among these are characteristics of activities and availability of nurseries and pre-schools, and deeper understanding of non-institutional forms of day care. In case of school age children the study aims to closely characterize the care for these children as provided by the schoo…

Topics: Care, Public Policy, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Rodiny přistěhovalců II.

The monograph paper focuses on the issue of immigration from a family perspective, which has so far been largely overlooked by research into migration in the Czech Republic. Only one group of immigrants is observed, namely immigrants from "third countriesö to which the strictest legislative measures apply. The methodology used is that of a qualitative field survey in non-mixed families of immigrants from Ukraine, Vietnam, and Bulgaria. Analysis of qualitative data takes place on three levels: national, family…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Životní podmínky a potřeby rodin v hlavním městě Praze

Životní podmínky a potřeby rodin v hlavním městě Praze

 The monograph examines topics relevant to the concept of family policy for the capital city of Prague and contains facts and ideas addressing specifically identified problem areas based on a large amount of currently available data. The study is divided into six thematic parts. The first chapter is devoted to the demographic structure of Prague population and the composition of households. The 2nd chapter focuses on income, housing and the economic situation of families in Prague. The 3rd chapter analyzes em…

Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Regions, Family, Public Policy, Education, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Vnímání a realita korupce v České republice : nové výzkumy, metody a postupy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Občané v politice: Studie k participativní a přímé demokracii ve střední Evropě

Občané v politice: Studie k participativní a přímé demokracii ve střední Evropě

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Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Makroekonomie bydlení

The study deals with the fluctuation in housing construction in connection with the economic oscillation. Some of the stock-flow models are also described. Stock-flow models explain the dependence of changes in volumes of housing stock with regard to changes in some macroeconomics indicators (for example interest rates, inflation etc.). The next part of the study aims on relationships between consumption behavior of households in housing, down-payment limits on the mortgage market and monetary policy of the ce…

Topics: Housing, Economy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Mikroekonomie bydlení

Mikroekonomie bydlení

The study offers the theoretical description of housing market operation and housing as a special good. Using theoretical economic analysis it evaluates the consequences of public interventions on housing market. The study should serve mainly for teaching purposes.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Výdaje na bydlení, sociální bydlení a napětí na trhu s bydlením (mezinárodní komparace a polistopadový vývoj v ČR)

The publication analyses the current situation on housing market in the Czech Republic including the discription of changes in housing expenditures of Czechhouseholds during the transition and main social tensions between households living in regulated rental sector and households living in market rental sector. In the second part the description of housing policies, social housing systems and models of housing allowances in the European Union countries is provided.…

Topics: Housing, European Union, Social Policy, Transformation, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Finanční dostupnost bydlení v ČR a zemích EU

The study describes the development in financial affordability of housing in the Czech Republic and EU countries. The affordability is analysed for all tenures: rental housing, co-operative housing and home-ownership. Using econometric models it evaluates the consequences of potential rental housing reform on both the housing market and financial affordability of all groups of households.…

Topics: Housing, European Union, Wages and Incomes, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Housing Policy: an End or a New Beginning

Housing Policy: an End or a New Beginning

Housing is not a simple category that can be viewed from a single perspective. On one hand, housing is one of the basic human needs and the right to adequate housing has been classified as a basic human right. On the other hand, housing constitutes a special type of private property, traded on the market. Studies from six countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania, Poland and Slovakia) that make up this volume describe the different patterns of privatisation during the past decade and give an assess…

Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Regions, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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(Ne)rovné šance na vzdělání. Vzdělanostní nerovnosti v České republice

(Ne)rovné šance na vzdělání. Vzdělanostní nerovnosti v České republice

The volume offers detailed discussion of the most significant aspects of educational inequalities formation in the Czech Republic and presents them in historic and international contexts. The first part of the publication reflects educational inequalities theoretically and historically and compares the skills of Czech pupils internationally. The second part deals with formation of educational aspirations. The third part deals in detail with inequalities in transition from secondary to tertiary education.…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Housing policy and housing finance in the Czech Republic during transition. An example of the schism between the still-living past and the need of reform

Housing policy and housing finance in the Czech Republic during transition. An example of the schism between the still-living past and the need of reform

The book contains a description and evaluation of the housing system reform in the Czech Republic constituting part of the transition from centrally planned to market economy. It addresses two goals: to evaluate housing subsidy reforms by applying improved methods of welfare economics and, secondly, to list the main factors explaining the particular outcomes of this reform. …

Topics: Housing, Economy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Bydlení v regionech. Důsledky regionálních rozdílů v dostupnosti bydlení

Bydlení v regionech. Důsledky regionálních rozdílů v dostupnosti bydlení

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Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Patterns of Europeanisation in Central and Eastern Europe

Patterns of Europeanisation in Central and Eastern Europe

The volume presents a collection of articles and analyses exploring various paths of Europeanisation process in Eastern Europe. The articles provide an interdisciplinary reflection on the eastern enlargement as well as on recent situation in new member states. The volume is dividend into three sections, dealing with general social science perspective on the EU enlargement, with challenges of Europeanisation and finaly focusing on detailed aspects of the integration processes in country studies. …

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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The Role of Central European Parliaments in the Process of European Integration

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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