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Corruption and the social legitimacy of the welfare state: A comparative cross-national analysis
In addition to reducing the effectiveness of welfare policies, a high level of corruption is argued to undermine the social legitimacy of the welfare state. In the current article, we subject this hypothesis to an empirical test by analyzing data from two rounds of the International Social Survey Program. We find that people have a greater preference for an extensive welfare state in countries where corruption is more widespread. Similarly, at the micro level, perceived corruption is associated with more suppo…
Czech Social Attitudes in the European Context
Czech Social Attitudes in the European Context: In the Heart of Europe reflects the political, welfare, and general social attitudes in the Czech Republic, which has 30 years of existence, in European comparison. In nine chapters, the team of contributors address understanding and evaluations of democracy, discriminated group identity, satisfaction with democracy, distributive justice beliefs, support for income redistribution, pay fairness, equity norms, life satisfaction, job satisfaction, subjective we…
Topics: European Union, Trust/Social Cohesion, Interpersonal Relations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Public Opinion
Korupce ve vybraných sektorech v české republice a možnosti jejího snížení
Souhrnná výzkumná zpráva obsahuje popis projektu, jeho metodologii a analýzu výsledků výzkumu přímé a nepřímé zkušenosti s korupcí v různých sektorech České republiky. Zaměřuje se na sektory školství a vědy, zdravotnictví, sportu, veřejných zakázek, exekucí a stavebního a územního řízení, v každém sektoru popisuje stav a formy korupce a nabízí doporučení pro zlepšení situace s korupcí. Souhrnná výzkumná zpráva také obsahuje popis metodiky měření korupce a ko…
Topics: Criminality, Interpersonal Relations
Faktory recidivy a proces ukončování kriminální kariéry v kontextu podmíněného propuštění z výkonu trestu odnětí svobody
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Topics: Criminality
Economic strain in post-communist countries and the rest of Europe: Attitudes towards the unemployed and the old
Topics: Social Inequalities, Social Policy
Erasmus (+) student mobility: individual and institutional motivations and effects
The Erasmus programme was established in 1987, Erasmus has become the largest international student mobility programme in the world and is seen by Europeans as one of the most positive results achieved by the European Union. The chapter reviews, first, the literature on the motivations of students and institutions to take part in the Erasmus programme and its effects. It then makes use of data from a recent survey of over 700 HE leaders and 3,000 mobile staff to study institutional motivations and effects in g…
Topics: Education
Individual’s cultural capital: intergenerational transmission, partner effect, or individual merit?
For decades, social stratification research has focused on the effect of families’ cultural capital on their offspring’s educational attainment. However, few studies have focused on the shaping of individuals’ cultural capital. This study aimed to examine the effects of family background, individual, partner, and household characteristics on individuals’ reading preferences and cultural participation. Structural equation modeling was applied to Czech Household Panel Survey (CHPS) data (N=6,040). The re…
Topics: Gender, Culture, Social Inequalities
Corruption as a risk for an individual and the state
This chapter deals with the topic of corruption as a risk for individuals and the state and points out the differences in the level and diversity of corruption in different European countries. First, it discusses the problems of defining corruption, then presents the most important theories explaining corruption from a sociological point of view. The chapter focuses mainly on deviations, norms, theories of rational choice, principal agent theory, and finally on corruption as a systemic risk. Furthermore, this …
Topics: Value Orientations, Corruption
Sociální stát, nerovnosti, politika. Postoje české veřejnosti k sociálnímu státu v letech 1996 až 2016
Welfare State, Inequalities, Politics: The Czech Public’s Attitudes towards the Welfare State between 1996 and 2016This book examines the broad expectations and perceptions residents of the Czech Republic have had of the welfare state from the 1990s to the present (most of the analyses cover the period up to 2016 and some up to 2018). More specifically, it looks at what the Czech public thinks about the scope of the welfare state (i.e. what services should the welfare state provide), the amount of social spe…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Policy
Three Generations of Methods for Measuring Corruption in Europe
This article focuses on methods for measuring corruption, first describing three generations of corruption indicators and then comparing them qualitatively and quantitatively. Corruption is a clandestine activity that is extremely di cult to measure, there are no official statistics on the number of corruption cases. For this reason, corruption can only be measured indirectly, by various proxies, and it is extremely hard to state whether these indicators are reliable and indeed measure the corruption phenomena…
Topics: Corruption
Income inequality and level of corruption in post-communist European countries between 1995 and 2014
This paper analyses the relationships between income inequality and corruption in Europe and looks specifically at post-communist European countries. The scientific community agrees that there is important relationship between income inequality and corruption and many authors believe that low income inequality is connected to low corruption. According to empirical papers, this is true not only on the European scale, but also on aglobal scale. In this paper, I test this claim by conducting a multilevel analysis…
Topics: Value Orientations, Corruption
Recenze: „Lukáš Linek: Kam se ztratili voliči? Vysvětlení vývoje volební účasti v České republice v letech 1990–2010.“
Topics: Elections and Electoral Research
Theories explaining corruption in post-communist countries
This article is looking at theoretical approaches to the study of corruption and tries to answer the question what could be the reason behind differences in the level of corruption between post-communist countries and established democracies in Europe on the theoretical level. First, this article discusses the problems of the definition of corrupt on. Next, this article presents the most important theories explaining corruption from the sociological point of view. This article will focus especially on norms (w…
Topics: Corruption
Komparace metodických postupů předvolebních průzkumů agentur CVVM, ppm factum, Median a STEM
Topics: Elections and Electoral Research
Why are pre-election polls wrong?
This chapter focuses on the pre-election polling in the Czech Republic. Specifically, it discusses the possible reasons why are pre-election polls wrong almost every elections. Chapter offers several explanations of this phenomenon, such as lying of respondents, reluctance to answer the survey questions, embargo, and others.…
Topics: Elections and Electoral Research
Measuring corruption in Europe: Public opinion surveys and composite indices
This article offers a concise overview of composite indices and public opinion surveys measuring corruption perception and bribery on the European level and ascertains their quality and usefulness based on several criteria. Specifically, this article covers measures by the World Bank (Control of Corruption), Transparency International (Corruption Perception Index and Global Corruption Barometer), European Social Survey, International Social Survey Programme, World Values Survey, and Eurobarometer. Fi…
Topics: Corruption, Research Methodology
Corruption in European Countries: A Cross-national Comparison
This paper analyses the Control of corruption as measured by the World Bank and the possible causes for the level of corruption on a European level. Theories explaining the causes of corruption on a global level, namely GDP per capita, income inequality, generalized trust and the share of Protestants in the population are discussed and their validity is tested on a European level by pooling the data and conducting OLS regression analysis on the full sample of the European Social Survey data in the period …
Topics: Value Orientations, Corruption, Religion and religiosity
