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Reinforced by the energy crisis: Nuclear revival and public opinion in the Czech Republic
As a low-carbon baseload source, nuclear energy is experiencing a revival in policy toward climate-neutrality targets, which has been accompanied by changes in public opinion following the 2021–2023 energy crisis. This article compares data from three representative public opinion surveys (2021, 2022, and 2023) to understand the substantial rise in acceptance of nuclear energy in the Czech Republic. Our hypothesis-driven research employs multiple ordinary least squares regressions and constructs two types of…
Small Municipalities and Ukrainian Migrant Crisis
The chapter analyses how small municipalities in Czechia responded to the influx of refugees from Ukraine following the Russian invasion in February 2022. Situated within debates on multilevel governance and local crisis management, it asks: (1) what national framework was adopted for managing Ukrainian migration and what role was assigned to municipalities, (2) what problems small municipalities faced during different phases of the crisis, (3) how they addressed these problems, and (4) how higher tiers of pub…
Navigating the Pandemic: Coordination and Communication in Small Czech Municipalities
The chapter examines how small Czech municipalities navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on coordination, communication and crisis governance in a highly fragmented local government system. Drawing on national crisis legislation, epidemiological data on incidence by municipal size, and 24 semi-structured interviews with mayors of municipalities under 2,000 inhabitants, it analyses both the structural context and local actors' perceptions and practices. The findings show that the early phase of the pandemi…
Topics: City and Village, Public Administration, Public health
The Concept of Socio-economic Indicators for Siting the Deep Geological Repository in the Czech Republic
This expert document was commissioned by SÚRAO, the Czech Radioactive Waste Repository Authority, and examines the possibilities of research into the socioeconomic aspects of siting a deep geological repository (DGR) for spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste in the Czech Republic. The document is divided into three parts.
The first part defines the subject matter and, based on a review of international literature, provides an overview of approaches to socioeconomic analysis across five relevant areas of so…
Topics: Environment
How Small Municipalities Contribute to Robust Crisis Governance—Experiences From Two Recent Large-scale Crises in Czechia
This article explores how small municipalities in Czechia adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and Ukrainian refugee crisis, and thus contributed to governance robustness. Through 24 semi-structured interviews with mayors, we examine local challenges and responses, revealing how these crises exposed weaknesses in public administration, particularly in decision-making, coordination, and communication at the outset. Mayors played key roles, making swift, independent decisions to meet urgent needs, often bypassing st…
Public resistance to climate policy amid energy crisis and populism: The case of the European Green Deal in the Czech Republic
This paper examines negative opinions on the European Green Deal (EGD) by combining critical discourse analysis of three Czech media and public opinion data analysis based on a representative sample of 821 Czech adults. Against the backdrop of the EGD contestation in the media debate and disagreement among the public, we evaluate the impact of the energy crisis and populism on resistance to this policy in a heavily coal-dependent post-communist Central European country. We found that neither the actors in the …
Topics: Energy, Climate Change, Technology and society, Transformation
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Department: Centrum pro výzkum veřejného mínění
Percepce souvislostí pandemie covid-19 a klimatické změny v české blogosféře.
Článek je věnován reflexi souvislostí klimatické změny a krize způsobené pandemií covid-19 v prostředí českých sociálních médií, konkrétně na vybraných blogovacích platformách. Procesy, které vedou ke klimatické a pandemické krizi, jsou mezi sebou značně provázané a spočívají ve způsobu, jakým lidé ovlivňují životní prostředí v globálním měřítku, ale rovněž společenské okolnosti a důsledky obou krizí, jakož i způsoby jejich řešení, nesou společné rysy…
Faktory recidivy a proces ukončování kriminální kariéry v kontextu podmíněného propuštění z výkonu trestu odnětí svobody
Zpráva dostupná na vyžádání na e-mailové adrese: eva.krulichova@soc.cas.cz. …
Topics: Criminality
Social Perception of Trees in the Landscape: The Connection Between Attitudes and Visual Preferences
The study presented in this paper uses a representative sample of the Czech population to analyse the relationships between attitudes to trees and preferences for landscapes with trees. We ask whether a positive assessment of the environmental benefits of trees in general and old and dead trees in particular leads to preferences for close-to-nature forms of the tree landscape. The results show that tree landscape preferences are primarily affected by attitudes attached to trees, rather than by sociodemographic…
Topics: Environment
Společenská percepce stromů
Jak vnímáme staré stromy a jakou hodnotu jim přikládali lidé dříve? Máme dnes ještě zájem o starobylé mohutné stromy a jejich svědectví? A jak se vůbec lidská společnost vztahovala ke stromům v historii (památné stromy, paměť stromů) a jak s nimi nakládá v současnosti (stromy v zemědělství, stromy jako symbol či jako klíčová komponenta lesních ekosystémů)? Jak například poznáme, že se stromy používaly pro těžbu pryskyřice? Jaké jsou stopy tradičního ořezáván…
Topics: Environment
Perception of the Connection between the Covid-19 Pandemic and Climate Change in the Czech blogosphere
The article is dedicated to reflecting the links between the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the context of Czech social media, specifically on several blogging platforms. The processes leading to the climate and pandemic crises are highly intertwined, based in the way humans interact with the environment on a global scale. However, the circumstances and consequences of both crises, as well as the ways they are dealt with, also share common features. The authors identify such contexts as ref…
Topics: Internet, Climate Change, Media
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Stromy: postoje a vizuální preference
Proceedings of the conference on the problem of important trees in the rural landscape of the Czech Republic within the framework of the grant solved by the Faculty of Science of Palacký University in Olomouc. The conference was held on 6-7 October 2022 in Hostětín.…
Topics: Environment
Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings
Department: Local and regional studies
Volný čas dětí na prahu třetího desetiletí 21. století
The chapter presents the main results from the representative survey of older school-age children, How children spend and experience their leisure 2021. It first focuses on time spent with digital media, especially with a computer, tablet or mobile phone (ICT), then on sports and physical activities, participation in extracurricular activities, spending leisure time with friends and finally on cultural and social activities (reading books, going to the cinema, etc.).…
Topics: Culture, Media, Lifestyle
Analýza názorů odborné veřejnosti pro tvorbu komunikačních strategií a legislativních změn v případě rozsáhlých poškození lesů v České republice
V posledních několika letech došlo k významné změně podmínek v lesnictví, zejména kvůli kůrovcové kalamitě, změně klimatu a měnícímu se společenskému uspořádání, které vyžaduje různé funkce lesa v České republice. Cílem tohoto výzkumu bylo zjistit názory odborné veřejnosti o aktuálních tématech souvisejících s kalamitní situací v lesích. Otázky byly zaměřeny na legislativní změny v lesnictví, komunikaci správy státních lesů, využití českého dřeva a d…
Topics: Environment
Vnímání stromů v české společnosti pohledem sociologů
Česká veřejnost vysoce hodnotí spirituální a estetické funkce stromů a je dobře obeznámena s některými environmentálními či ekologickými hodnotami stromů, které pokládá za velmi důležité, zejména ve srovnání s funkcemi čistě užitkovými. Na druhou stranu jiné ekologické funkce vázané na staré a suché stromy nepovažuje za důležité, ačkoliv tato hodnota stromů je považována za významnou v přírodovědných oborech.…
Topics: Environment
Publication Type: Public event or educational activity
Department: Local and regional studies
Vzestupné a sestupné politické dráhy českých poslanců a senátorů
Článek se zabývá víceúrovňovými kariérními dráhami českých politiků v letech 2000 až 2017. Nejprve jsme v něm popsali typické kariérní dráhy mezi jednotlivými úrovněmi samosprávy, přičemž jsme rozlišovali vzestupné a sestupné dráhy. Následně jsme se soustředili na vzestupné dráhy směřující až na národní úroveň, které představují nejobvyklejší cestu do Parlamentu ČR. S využitím komplexní databáze, v níž jsou propojeny údaje o kandidátech na lokální, r…
Topics: Elites, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Individual Determinants of Climate Change Scepticism in the Czech Republic
This article focuses on the issue of climate change scepticism among the inhabitants of the Czech Republic and pursues two objectives: to compare climate change scepticism of Czech citizens with citizens of other European countries and to examine the relationship between individual characteristics of Czech citizens and their opinion on climate change. For this purpose, the concepts of epistemic scepticism and response scepticism are employed. The data from round 8 of the European Social Survey are analysed to …
Topics: Value Orientations, Climate Change
Volný čas dětí staršího školního věku a jeho prožívání. Výsledky reprezentativního výzkumu v České republice 2021 (monitorovací studie)
The aim of the study is to present results of the own representative survey How children spend and experience their leisure 2021, which monitor the state of children's leisure at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century. In the begging of the study, the main findings are summarized and the parameters of the research are introduced. Then, the results of a more detailed analyses are presented. At first, these focus on how much leisure children have. Then, two more extensive chapters follow that repr…
Topics: Family, Lifestyle
Vnímání lokální demokracie očima českých starostů
The aim of this manuscript is to analyze notions of democracy among Czech mayors. Czechia is dotted with municipalities of various sizes, each with its own mayor, each of whom has a vision of how democracy at the local level should be practiced. Our focus here is on two types of democracies that are seen as alternatives: participatory democracy and representative democracy. For the analyses, two mutually interleaved data sources concerning the Czech mayors were employed: Political Leaders in European Cities (2…
Topics: Elites, City and Village, Public Administration
Political Leadership in Issue Networks: How Mayors Rule Their World?
This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago. From this comparative perspective, the book examines how to become a mayor in Europe today, the attitudes of these politicians towards administrative and territorial reforms, their notions of democracy, their political prior…
Topics: Elites, Public Administration
Obyvatelé Česka —jejich vztah k půdě a jejich znalosti o půdě
Topics: Environment
Půda - kompetence a zájem veřejnosti 2017
The survey is focused on the relation of population to soil and on their opinions on selected issues related to soil in the context of the Czech Republic.…
Topics: Environment
Starostové, starostky a jejich priority / Mayors and their priorities
This article sets out to identify the factors that have an impact on mayoral decisions in terms of priorities for municipal development. Data from a survey conducted among Czech mayors in the years 2015 and 2016 (N = 492) are used. The sample consists of answers of mayors from municipalities of all population sizes and the sample is evenly distributed over the area of the Czech Republic. The main aim is to show the impact of geographical context, sociodemographic characteristics, and characteristics connected …
Topics: Public Administration
The Discursive Dimension of Second-order Elections: The Case of Czech Regional Elections 2012
The goal of this paper is to describe linguistic and issue differences in election manifestos of the parties involved in the Czech 2012 regional election and contribute to a better understanding of second-order election (SOE) theory on a discursive level. The year 2012 brought two main changes: a significant success of the Communist Party and a rise of regional parties, movements and coalitions. Thus, the paper looks at differences between strong well-established parties and the newly successful Communist part…
Topics: Research Methodology, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research
Regional differences in political trust: Comparing the Vysocina and Usti Regions
This article deals with the factors influencing the degree of trust in political institutions at three levels of government in the Czech Republic (national, regional and local) in two dissimilar regions in the time of economic crisis in 2009, the year when citizens of the Czech Republic experienced the negative impacts of growing unemployment and a substantial decline in real GDP. Two competitive theories - the cultural and the performance explanation - were used as a theoretical framework. The results show th…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Regions, Public Opinion
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