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Autonomie a spolupráce: důsledky ustavení obecního zřízení v roce 1990

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

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Sociální kapitál v České republice a v mezinárodním srovnání

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

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Genderová segregace českého trhu práce. Kvantitativní a kvalitativní obraz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Výzkumy stranických preferencí, jejich uplatnění ve společnosti a jejich kvalita

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

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