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Regionální diferenciace na trhu bydlení a její příčiny

This article concerns problems of housing in the CR and their regional context. the analysis has been realised on the basis of data excerpted from newspapersadvertisement and those placed by selected real estate agencies. The mainattention is devoted to searching for possible causes of regional differencesin market prices of housing.…

Topics: Housing, Regions

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Fungování národních, regionálních a lokálních vlád – problém měření výkonu vlád („government performance“)

Fungování národních, regionálních a lokálních vlád – problém měření výkonu vlád („government performance“)

This article tries to answer how government performance can be measured. Possible approaches can be dividend into four groups: approaches using indicators of the socio-economic development in the governed area, approaches measuring government performance by means of a subjective evaluation, approaches focused on procedural and institutional effectiveness and the quality of government performance and approaches measuring government performance with the aid of aggregate indexes.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Regionální rozdíly ve volebních výsledcích v České republice – parlamentní volby 1996-2006

The article deals with voting patterns of major political parties in the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic between 1996 and 2006. The results of analyses prove that major Czech political parties have quite stable voting patterns. The most of spatial variation in electoral preferences can be attributed to structural differences among districts. Key underlying factors explaining spatial variation of party electoral results are of socio-economic nature.…

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

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

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Části obcí s vlastní samosprávou a bez ní: Vliv administrativního statusu části obce na její rozvoj

The paper deals with the analysis of socio-economic and infrastructural differences of small commu¬nities disposing of their own local government and communities which form a part of a bigger mu¬nicipality and don’t dispose therefore of their own local government. The authors seek an answer to the question what impact has the administrative status of a community on its development. The results indicate that the impact of the administra¬tive status on development is generally weak.…

Topics: Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

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Ovlivňuje finanční (ne)dostupnost bydlení porodnost v České republice

The article examined relations between statistic housing financial affordability and demographic behavior in regions of the Czech Republic. The conducted analyses proved that the lower is housing affordability in region the higher is the average age of mothers and the lower is the total fertility rate. However, housing affordability influence more timing of the childbearing than the total fertility rate.…

Topics: Housing, Regions, Parenting, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

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Czech Green politics after two decades: the May 2010 general election

This article examines the electoral results of the Czech Green Party in the 2010 elections to the lower house of the Czech Parliament, placing those results in both historical and sociological perspective. In particular, the article analyzes the social bases of Green Party support in past parliamentary elections, and identifies reasons for the party’s substantial decline in electoral support in 2010.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Problémové rezidenční čtvrti a politiky k jejich regeneraci v postsocialistickém městě – studie Prahy

Problémové rezidenční čtvrti a politiky k jejich regeneraci v postsocialistickém městě – studie Prahy

The article examines regeneration policies in Prague. After introducing the concept of regeneration and regeneration theories and reviewing foreign cases of regeneration of problem neighbourhoods, the authors analyse the situation in Prague focusing on two selected city districts.…

Topics: Regions, Public Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Food Self-Provisioning in Czechia: Beyond Coping Strategy of the Poor: A Response to Alber and Kohler’s ‘Informal Food Production in the Enlarged European Union’ (2008)

Food Self-Provisioning in Czechia: Beyond Coping Strategy of the Poor: A Response to Alber and Kohler’s ‘Informal Food Production in the Enlarged European Union’ (2008)

Food systems are of increasing interest in both research and policy communities. Surveys of post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) show high rates of food self-provisioning. These practices have been explained in terms of being ‘coping strategies of the poor’. Alber and Kohler’s ‘Informal Food Production in the Enlarged European Union’ (2008) offers a prominent account of this argument, supported by quantitative data. However, evidence from our case study of food self-provisioni…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Vybrané faktory stojící za vysokými cenami bytů v Praze

The aim of the article is the analysis of underlying factors behind low financial affordability of owner-occupied housing in Prague, respectively behind high house prices in Prague. The authors paid attention to the following factors: regional differences in economic performance and high preference for owner-occupied housing.…

Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Regions

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Standardy bydlení 2002/03: Finanční dostupnost a postoje občanů

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Standardy bydlení 2003/2004: Bytová politika v ČR - efektivněji a cíleněji

Standardy bydlení 2003/2004: Bytová politika v ČR - efektivněji a cíleněji

The authors aim to propose more effective design of housing subsidies in the Czech Republic. In the first part of the publication was made an attempt to assess housing shortage in the Czech Republic, next follows the comparison of first- and second generation rent control, social housing and housing allowance. The authors tried to propose the best design of second generation rent control, social housing and housing allowance for the CR. Moreover, the equilibrium rent and annual limits for rent deregulation wer…

Topics: Housing, Social Policy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Standardy bydlení 2004/2005: Financování bydlení a regenerace sídlišť

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Parlamentní volby 1992 v České republice očima geografa: žádná velká překvapení

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

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Souvisí úroveň porodnosti s finanční dostupností bydlení?

Souvisí úroveň porodnosti s finanční dostupností bydlení?

Topics: Housing, Economy, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

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The Development of Czechoslovak Green Party since the Elections 1990

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

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Economic, social and historical determinants of voting patterns in 1990 and 1992 parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Politická kultura lokálních společenství: případ tří měst

Politická kultura lokálních společenství: případ tří měst

Topics: City and Village, Civil Society, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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The Czech National Identity

The Czech National Identity

Topics: Value Orientations, Civil Society, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Housing and Its Influence on the Development of Social Inequalities in the Post-Communist Czech Republic

Housing and Its Influence on the Development of Social Inequalities in the Post-Communist Czech Republic

This article concerns problems of housing in the Czech Republic and their regional context. The analysis has been realised onthe basis of data excerpted fromnewspapers advertisement and those placed by selected real estate agencies.The main attention is devoted to searching for possible causes of regionaldifferences in market prices of housing.…

Topics: Housing, Regions

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Navrhované změny volebního zákona vzešlé z dodatků "opoziční smlouvy" v roce 2000 a jejich možné důsledky

Navrhované změny volebního zákona vzešlé z dodatků "opoziční smlouvy" v roce 2000 a jejich možné důsledky

The article studies the consequences of proposed chages to the lectoral law. The parameters of changes and the data on party support from opinion polls andestimation of voting patterns known from previous elections serve to modelpossible electoral outcome in terms of seats. …

Topics: Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Regionální diferenciace na trhu bydlení a její příčiny

Regionální diferenciace na trhu bydlení a její příčiny

This article concerns problems of housing in the CR and their regional context. the analysis has been realised on the basis of data excerpted from newspapersadvertisement and those placed by selected real estate agencies. The mainattention is devoted to searching for possible causes of regional differencesin market prices of housing. …

Topics: Housing, Economy, Regions

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Czech Greens in the 2002 General Election: A New Lease of Life?

Czech Greens in the 2002 General Election: A New Lease of Life?

The article analyses the fortunes of the Geens in the 2002 General Election in the Czech Republic. The path of development ofthe Greens from the promissing party with good brand name and unkown and somewhat suspicious leaders into political marginality in the first half of the 1990's was changed in the beginning of the 21st century. The complete internal change of theparty connected with rising cooperation with more respected environmental NGO activists is considered the main reas…

Topics: Historical Sociology, Value Orientations, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

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Výběrová šetření a analýza agregátních dat - diskuse na téma použitelnosti různých přístupů v komparativních analýzách politického chování

Výběrová šetření a analýza agregátních dat - diskuse na téma použitelnosti různých přístupů v komparativních analýzách politického chování

The use of surveys has long been considered superior to aggregate data analysis in study of political behavior as it allows researchers to avoid danger of ecological fallacy. Article suggests the use of LOCCONTINGENCY method that combines the advantages of both possible approaches. Results provided by LOCCONTINGENCY method is tested by comparing with the survey results from four model regions. The strengths and weaknesses of the method evaluated and its practical usability is discussed. …

Topics: Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Vliv teritoriálně specifických faktorů na formování politických orientací voličů

Vliv teritoriálně specifických faktorů na formování politických orientací voličů

Based on the empirical analysis of the survey data from four model regions combined with the äecological' data describing the social environment within people live the article analyse the influence of the territorially specific factors on the development of political attitudes. The resuls of analysis prove the importace of territorially specific factors. …

Topics: Public Opinion, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Postoje obyvatel k situaci na trhu s bydlením a bytové politice: existují v České republice „housing classes“?

Postoje obyvatel k situaci na trhu s bydlením a bytové politice: existují v České republice „housing classes“?

Using data from representative survey Housing Attitudes 2001 the author analyses the opinons of the Czech population on the situation in the housing market and general attitudes towards housing-related issues and housing policy. Connestions between attitudes and respondents’ positions in the housing market. On the bases of the results of the analyses the usefullness of the theory of the housing classes in the Czech context is discussed. …

Topics: Housing

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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