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The first decade of the Czech democratic Parliament has seen the development of a newly conceptualised, bicameral Parliament in a new State. We identify general tendencies toward stabilisation, similar to Western European parliamentary practices. Another trend is the gradual change from organising the Parliament according to the majority principle to that of consensus. There is also a long-term clash over the powers of the Senate and a gradual erosion of the dominant role of the Chamber of Deputies.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

The Czech Republic

The text is a regular contribution into the publication called Data Yearbook. It describes political changes in the Czech republic during the year 2003. The article focuses on such problems as elections of the president, EU referendum, and on the main issues of the Czech politics.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The European Union and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

The European Union and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe examines the influence of the EU on the party politics of the eight post-communist countries that joined the Union in 2004, as well as that of Bulgaria and Romania, from the 1990s and through the first 18 months of EU membership. For much of the decade after the end of communist rule, popular support for EU membership was generally strong, if abstract, in nature and EU influence did not provide the basis for much political conflict or substant…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Impact of the EU on the Czech Party System

The text focuses on the impact of European integration on Czech party system. European integration has undoubtedly influenced Czech political parties, but the influence has neither been destabilizing nor instrumental in the formation of new parties. European issues, both in terms of support for joining the EU and in relation to attitudes about the desired speed of European integration, have mapped on to the dominant left-right cleavage in Czech politics. This covariance works at the mass level, but it does not…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Parliament of the Czech Republic, 1993–2004

The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as "parliaments in adolescence".This book identifies six parliaments which exemplify the wide range of developments in the new post-communist political systems, from the stable consolidated democracies to the less stable and more authoritarian states, within which their respective parliaments function.Fin…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Současná česká společnost. Sociologické studie

Topics: Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Politics between Parliament and Government - the Institutional Framework and the Reality within the Czech Parliament

Accountability is a problem in every democracy, and particularly in countries currently building a democratic system and market economy. The chapter analyses the policy between parliament and government in connection with the problem of responsibility and accountability in the Czech Republic. Special attention is paid to the institutions that are accountable to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament in the area of the economy. Not only the institutional arrangement, but also the political practice and…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Civil Society, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Central European Parliaments. First Decade of Democratic Experience and Future Prospectives

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Topics: European Union, Civil Society, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Možnosti a bariéry rozvoje sociálního dialogu v České republice

The paper deals with the opportunities for and barriers to social dialogue in the Czech Republic. It stresses the importance of the role that social partnership and its institutionalised form – the tripartite Council of Economic and Social Agreement (RHSD) – occupied in the transformation processes.…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Values and Politics

Česko-slovenské sociologické dny. Sborník z konference

The volume contains papers presented at the international Czecho-Slovak Sociology Days, a conference held 10-12 May 2004 in Prague and jointly organised by the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and the Masaryk Society of Czech Sociology. The volume is focused on Czech and Slovak sociological research on public opinion, political sociology, local issues, family, housing, and methodology.…

Topics: Housing, Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Family, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Parlament a vláda

The chapter is devoted to the relationship between the Chamber of Deputies and the government. The first part deals with the position of both these subjects in the Czech political system the second part focuses on the composition of government and the vote of confidence or no confidence in each election term. Then the authors look on how deputies subjectively assess the importance of each of the activities conducted by the Chamber and how satisfied they are with how the Chamber conducts them. The last part of …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Legislativní proces a činnost parlamentu

The chapter describes legislative process both in general terms from the point of view of the political institutions and in detail within the Chamber of deputies and the Senate. It also analyses organization and activity of the Chamber and looks in detail at passing the legislation. It pays special attention to the position of the government in the legislative process and to the relationship between both chambers.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Český parlamentarismus: přehled

The chapter provides an overview of the Czech Parliamentarism, describes its current shape and basic internal structures. It describes the history of the Czech parliamentarism, its internal structure, relations between chambers and their different powers. It also analyses internal organization of the parliament, especially leadership, parliamentary party groups and committees. At the end it summarizes the basic factors shaping institutionalization of the Czech parliament in the last twenty years.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Úvod

The objective of the introductory chapter is to summarise the knowledge contained in literature to date about the Czech Parliament, inform about the existing surveys done there, touch upon the theoretical framework of the submitted publications based on the theory of representation, and introduce the structure of the literary works.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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

Introduction: Democratization, Collective Identity Formation, and the EU Enlargement

The chapter attempts to clarify the concept of collective identity and its intrinsic relationship to democracy. Further on, there arediscussed possible configurations of democracy in the European Union that give expression to different national, supra-national, or post-national identitarian projects (the so-called three RECON models). Finally, it outlines the contributions of the volume and shows exemplary ways how to apply collective identity research to the process of the EU enlargement and accession of Cent…

Topics: European Union, Value Orientations, Identity, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Nexus between Democracy, Collective Identity Formation, and EU Enlargement

As an outcome of a five-year international research project “RECON – Reconstituting democracy in Europe”, this volume presents country case studies of Central and East European countries and comparative findings from research on the transformation of collective identities in Central and Eastern Europe under the conditions of an enlarging Europe. The main aim of the present publication is to show how the emerging collective European identity is correlated with the processes of democratization and European…

Topics: European Union, Value Orientations, Identity, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Proměny reprezentace zájmů po vstupu do Evropské unie

The book gives empirically well-founded study of changes of political and legal framework of the Czech Republic, analysis of existing institutional structures for interest representation. It describes the situation at the moment of joining the European Union and changes which happed after it. …

Topics: European Union, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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The Czech Republic

The European Union and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

The Impact of the EU on the Czech Party System

The Parliament of the Czech Republic, 1993–2004

Současná česká společnost. Sociologické studie

The Politics between Parliament and Government - the Institutional Framework and the Reality within the Czech Parliament

Central European Parliaments. First Decade of Democratic Experience and Future Prospectives

Možnosti a bariéry rozvoje sociálního dialogu v České republice

Česko-slovenské sociologické dny. Sborník z konference

Parlament a vláda

Legislativní proces a činnost parlamentu

Český parlamentarismus: přehled

Úvod

Český parlament ve druhé dekádě demokratického vývoje

Introduction: Democratization, Collective Identity Formation, and the EU Enlargement

The Nexus between Democracy, Collective Identity Formation, and EU Enlargement

Proměny reprezentace zájmů po vstupu do Evropské unie

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