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146 Publications

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

Zivilgesellschaft im Transformationsprozeß Ost-Mitteleuropas: Ungarn, Polen und die Tschechoslowakei

Der fünfte Band von Systemwechsel analysiert Herausbildung, Struktur und Funktion von Zivilgesellschaften im Transformationsprozeß von der Autokratie zur Demokratie. Wie in den vorherigen Bänden beschäftigt sich der erste Teil mit theoretischen Fragen und der zweite Teil mit konkreten empirischen Analysen. Der Band enthält Beiträge zur Gestalt und Funktion bestimmter Typen von Zivilgesellschaften im Hinblick auf den Erfolg der Demokratisierungsprozesse, informiert zum Verhältnis von Nationalismus und Zi…

Topics: Civil Society, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Czech Republic

This is a comprehensive study that compares the origins, structure, composition and activities of cabinets in Eastern Europe and draws lessons from this comparison. Each chapter begins with a survey of the evolution of cabinets since the fall of communism at the beginning of the 1990s. The authors then look at the place of the cabinet in the constitution and on the role of presidents and prime ministers. At a time when most Eastern European countries are candidates for membership in the European Union, this vo…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Die Tschechische Republik

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Wahlen im Transformationsprozeß der Tschechischen Republik

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Czech Republic

The country-specific chapter on Czech Republic, as all 13 chapters on Central and East European Countries, provides the reader with standard handbook information on voting behaviour, cabinet formation, electoral and constitutional arrangements from 1989 and onwards. A common theme of all chapters is political cleavages and the chapter offers in-depth analyse of the changing cleavage structure in Czech Republic …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Seiroshikyogi no seidoka to sono jissai (Institutionalization and Practices of the Tripartite System)

The book deals with employment problems and labour relations in Czech Republic in System Transition and covers macro-, mezzo- and micro-level. Besides economic development, employment problems, interest representation of employers and employees the attention is paid also to the changes in value orientations and work attitudes. The authors are Czech and Japanese sociologist, specialist on East-Central Europe. This enables to see the Czech development in broader context of globalization. …

Topics: Economy, Value Orientations, Work, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Czech Republic: critical democrats and the persistence of democratic values

The chapter is based on World Value Survey data and describes the support for democracy and autocracy, political involvement, confidence in institutions, as well as attitudes relevant to an assessment of the ethos of political and civil community. In addition a hypothesis is examined, that Czech society maintained democratic values in spite of the communist regime …

Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a 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

Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making

The chapter analyses the character of the cabinet as a decision-making body. The ministers fulfil two primary tasks in parliamentary governments and these two tasks are, in certain extent, contradictory. First, with the exception of ministers without portfolio and the prime minister, they each head the department and, in this capacity, they have to address the issues and defend the interests of their department. Secondly, they belong to the cabinet as a „collective“ body and therefore, contribute to solvin…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Legislative Budgeting in the Czech Republic

The book deals with one of the three core functions of legislatures – the oversight, and demonstrates, how this function is performed in case of state budget. The chapter then analyses the specifics of the budget negotiation process in the Czech Republic, which is different from the general legislative process. Attention is paid to single stages of the budgeting process and the role the parliament and parliamentary oversight. …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Czech Trade Union in EU Governance

The central question addressed by this book is whether trade unions from the post-socialist states have successfully represented their interests at the EU level. The chapter deals with the trade unions in the Czech Republic and thein role in EU Governance. …

Topics: European Union, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Identity Formation of Elites in Old and New Members States (with special Focus on the Czech Elite)

The chapter focuses on national and European identity and examines, whether Europe is united or still divides concerning the new European identity. First part outlines the multiple natures of identity and different types of territorial attachment the second one examines the position of elites on European integration. The third part analyse the components of national and European identities and the final one focuses on exploration of the interdependencies between the aspects of both identities.…

Topics: Elites, European Union, Identity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Czech Parliament and the Ratification Debate

The following chapter is dedicated to the discussions on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by the Parliament of the Czech Republic and its further implications. The first part deals with the stance of the Czech political elite towards the European integration and its further deepening, which should allow us to understand the grounds for its behaviour. The next part analyses the actual ratification discussions, which were extended into the Czech Presidency term. The last part of the chapter follows the coop…

Topics: Elites, European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Central European Parliaments over Two Decades – Diminishing Stability? Parliaments in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia

This paper compares the development in four Central European parliaments in the second decade after the fall of communism. At the end of the first decade, the four parliaments could be considered stabilised, functional, independent and internally organised institutions. Attention is paid particularly to the changing institutional context and pressure of ‘Europeanisation’, the changing party strengths, and the functional and political consequences of these changes.…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Central European Parliaments over Two Decades – Diminishing Stability? Parlament in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia

The chapter compares the development in four Central European parliaments in the second decade after the fall of communism. At the end of the first decade, the four parliaments could be considered as rather stabilised, functional, independent and internally organised institutions. Attention is paid particularly to the changing institutional context and pressure of ‘Europeanisation’, the changing party strengths, and the functional and political consequences of these changes.…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Tschechische Republik. Zivilgesellschaft, Verbände und Interessengruppen

Der Band umfasst systematische Analysen der Verbändelandschaften und der Interessengruppen in 27 europäischen Ländern sowie der Europäischen Union. Die einzelnen Beiträge untersuchen die historische Entwicklung, die rechtlichen Grundlagen, die Strukturen des jeweiligen nationalen Interessenvermittlungssystems sowie die Beziehungen der Verbände zu den wichtigsten politischen Institutionen. Das Werk vermittelt Grundinformationen über die nationalen Systeme funktionaler Interessenvermittlung, deren Bedeu…

Topics: European Union, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a 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

Sociální partnerství v České republice

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Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Občanská sdružení a profesní komory

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Topics: Civil Society

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Postoje české veřejnosti ke vstupu do Euroatlantických struktur

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

Třetí sektor a občanská participace v České republice očima veřejnosti

Topics: Civil Society, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

Zahraniční zkušenosti a inspirace

Topics: Civil Society

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

Bertelsmann Transformation Index Czech Republic 2006

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data, Transformation

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

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