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How Small Municipalities Contribute to Robust Crisis Governance—Experiences From Two Recent Large-scale Crises in Czechia

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…

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

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Výzkum žáků s nedostatečnou znalostí vyučovacího jazyka v základních školách. Průběžná výzkumná zpráva.

Výzkum žáků s nedostatečnou znalostí vyučovacího jazyka v základních školách. Průběžná výzkumná zpráva.

The interim research report presents the findings of the first phase of the project, focusing on the education of pupils with insufficient proficiency in the language of instruction in primary schools and the transition of pupils from primary to secondary schools. The report provides the results of an online survey conducted in primary schools across five regions of the Czech Republic. The survey aimed to map the number of pupils with limited proficiency in the language of instruction and the level of support …

Topics: Education

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

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Kdo musí jít z kola ven? Sociální a prostorové faktory volby střední školy a dokončení středního vzdělání v Karlovarském kraji

Kdo musí jít z kola ven? Sociální a prostorové faktory volby střední školy a dokončení středního vzdělání v Karlovarském kraji

The research report focuses on two main topics, on the one hand, on the decision-making of pupils in the Karlovy Vary region regarding their choice of secondary school and field of their study, and on the other hand on the factors that increase the risk of a pupil finishing secondary school studies prematurely in this region. The final part of the report presents also findings from in-depth interviews with pupils and parents from socially excluded localities of the Karlovy Vary region about their educational a…

Topics: City and Village, Regions, Education

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

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Independents in local politics – voter turnout, competitiveness, and party-system effects

Independents in local politics – voter turnout, competitiveness, and party-system effects

Denationalisation and the rise of independent lists are strong trends in the local politics of many European countries, but little is known about their implications. Using the example of Czechia, we examine several effects of this trend, focussing on two questions: 1) What impact does the growing number of independents have on voter turnout? 2) How does this trend affect competitiveness and the party system? Using data on electoral results in Czech municipalities over two consecutive elections, we document mob…

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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From an alternative to a dominant form of local political actors? Independent candidates in the Czech local elections in 2010-2018

From an alternative to a dominant form of local political actors? Independent candidates in the Czech local elections in 2010-2018

This article aims to contribute to the debate on the rise of independents in local politics and the underlying factors driving this trend in Europe by investigating the situation in Czechia, a post-communist country with a highly fragmented local government system. This study uses statistical analyses of electoral data from the 2010, 2014 and 2018 local elections to test the relevance of supply-side and demand-side explanations of the rise of independents. The analysis results show that the political strength …

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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„Dokážu varovat před všemi statisticky možnými klimatickými extrémy, ale kdo mě bude varovat před sebou samým?“: Prvky klimaskepticismu v expertní prezentaci klimatické změny v médiích

Česko patří k relativně skeptičtějším evropským státům v pohledu na klimatickou změnu, zejména co se týče názorů na odpovědnost člověka za změnu klimatu a na potřebnost jednotlivých opatření vedoucích ke zmírnění jejích dopadů. Tento článek se soustředí na poměrně nenápadný aspekt přítomnosti klimaskeptických názorů v mediální prezentaci této problematiky v českém kontextu, a to na komunikaci pochybností o vědeckých poznatcích o klimatické změně vědci sa…

Topics: Climate Change

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Faktory recidivy a proces ukončování kriminální kariéry v kontextu podmíněného propuštění z výkonu trestu odnětí svobody

Faktory recidivy a proces ukončování kriminální kariéry v kontextu podmíněného propuštění z výkonu trestu odnětí svobody

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Topics: Criminality

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Hodnoty a politika

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Škola jako integrační partner

Škola jako integrační partner

Projekt Škola jako integrační partner je tříletým aplikačním projektem realizovaným Sociologickým ústavem Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i., vletech 2019 až 2021 aspolufinancovaným se státní podporou Technologické agentury ČR v rámci Programu ÉTA 2. Partnerem neboli aplikačním garantem tohoto projektu je hlavní město Praha. Hlavním cílem projektu je nejen zmapovat situaci na základních školách v Praze vzhledem k integraci dětí cizinců a žáků s odlišným mateřským jazykem (OMJ), …

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Social Policy, Public Policy, Education

Publication Type: Other Publication

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Prekérní práce na periferním venkově.

Prekérní práce na periferním venkově.

Kapitola je kvalitativní studií prekérní práce v periferních regionech a strategií, jež na trhu práce uplatňují lidé žijící v periferiích, kteří obtížně nacházejí pracovní uplatnění. Z analýzy rozhovorů vyplývá, že omezená nabídka pracovních příležitostí v regionu a zejména obtížná dosažitelnost práce snižují možnosti výběru práce a omezují volby variant pro lidi žijící v periferních oblastech. Ve spojení s individuálními handicapy vedou tyto faktory č…

Topics: Work, Regions, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Spokojenost se životem ve venkovských periferiích.

Spokojenost se životem ve venkovských periferiích.

In the chapter the spatial differentiation of residential satisfaction with different aspects of life is presented. An analysis based on data from a 2016 survey on peripheral areas shows that satisfaction of people living in rural peripheries is actually lower than in cities, but also lower than in other rural places. People are less satisfied with the local infrastructure and feel less safe. They also rate relationships between people in locality as worse.…

Topics: City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Střední školy v regionech Česka: ovlivňuje periferní poloha nabídku škol, poptávku po nich a úspěšnost jejich studentů?

The chapter examines the geographic factors that influence supply and demand for different types of secondary schools, and the results that secondary school students achieve in state school-leaving examinations. The authors show that Czech regions differ from each other by the structure of supply of secondary school education, but also by the demand for different types of education. However, regional differences in educational outcomes are relatively low when the results of students from the same type of schoo…

Topics: City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Základní trendy rozmístění cizinců v Česku 2008–2015: rezidenční segregace perspektivou různě velkých individualizovaných sousedství

Základní trendy rozmístění cizinců v Česku 2008–2015: rezidenční segregace perspektivou různě velkých individualizovaných sousedství

Basic trends in the deployment of foreigners in the Czech Republic 2008-2015: Residential segregation from the perspective of individualized neighbourhoods of various size, by Martin Šimon, Ivana Křížková, Adam Klsák, Renáta Mikešová and Yana LeontiyevaThe number of foreigners living in the Czech Republic is on the rise and questions related to their coexistence refer to several domains such as the labour market, housing, social integration and the security policy of the government. Public adminis…

Topics: Housing, Identity, Culture, City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

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Vnímání lokální demokracie očima českých starostů

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

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Living and Dealing with Limited Opportunities: Social Disadvantage and Coping Strategies in Rural Peripheries

Living and Dealing with Limited Opportunities: Social Disadvantage and Coping Strategies in Rural Peripheries

In the article, manifestations of social disadvantage in peripheral rural settings in the Czech Republic are investigated. Based on the theory of local opportunity structures, the authors identify various aspects of the spatial context that intersect with individual handicaps of people and their households and contribute to poverty and social exclusion. Moreover, coping strategies of vulnerable rural inhabitants are investigated.…

Topics: City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

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Starostové, starostky a jejich priority / Mayors and their priorities

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

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Vliv lokálního prostředí na volební chování v Česku

Vliv lokálního prostředí na volební chování v Česku

Článek, který je kvalitativní studií příčin volebního chování a dalším příspěvkem do široké diskuse na téma vlivu lokálního prostředí na volební chování jedince, vychází z analýzy 9 skupinových diskusí (focus groups) a 44 rozhovorů provedených v desíti lokalitách v Česku. Výzkum se zaměřil na lokality, pro které je charakteristické určité stabilní volební chování se specifickou politickou orientací voličů, jenž ale svou charakteristikou neodpovídá volebn…

Topics: Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Nothing Happens Here…Living Conditions in Rural Peripheries

Nothing Happens Here…Living Conditions in Rural Peripheries

The book focuses on spatialised forms of social inequalities. In particular, it explores the various forms of disadvantage associated with living in rural peripheries. Rural peripheries are relatively sparsely populated places, with poor transport connections to large cities, which don’t profit from the population growth typical of the suburban and peri-urban countryside. At the same time, rural peripheries are affected by a range of social problems. The individual chapters of this book try from different pe…

Topics: Housing, City and Village, Lifestyle, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Pražané s cizím pasem

Pražané s cizím pasem

Praha je dynamickou multikulturní metropolí, která láká lidi z různých koutů světa svojí historickou, kulturní a v neposlední řadě také ekonomickou atraktivitou. V současné době cizí státní příslušníci tvoří o něco více než 15 % obyvatel hlavního města přesně dvě třetiny těchto cizinců pochází ze zemí mimo EU. Migranti a migrantky se podílejí významným dílem na ekonomickém vývoji, populační dynamice a vzhledu metropole. O této specifické skupině obyvatel…

Topics: City and Village, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Geografická reprezentativita poslanců zvolených do Poslanecké sněmovny českého parlamentu za první republiky (1918-1938) a po roce 1989

Election laws regulate the number of deputies who are elected in individual electoral districts, and set them in relation to the population, respectively to the number of voters participating in elections in individual regions. Elected deputies could thus be regarded as political representatives of citizens living in electoral districts. However, under systems of proportional representation, current deputies represent the ideology of the party to which they belong rather than the region. Nevertheless, it makes…

Topics: Elites, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

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Vztah obyvatel k přírodě a její ochraně. Sociologická perspektiva

The first part of the study is focused on how environmental issues are approached by sociology and social sciences and also deals with nature conservation in the Czech Republic - its developments, institution and actors. The second part presents the results of empirical surveys with the main emphasis on the survey carried out in 2016 focused on opinions, attitudes and behaviour of that part of population that is interested in nature conservation and environment professionally or in their leisure and actively p…

Topics: Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

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Regional differences in political trust: Comparing the Vysocina and Usti Regions

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

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Geografie výsledků parlamentních voleb: prostorové vzorce volebního chování v Česku 1992-2013

Geografie výsledků parlamentních voleb: prostorové vzorce volebního chování v Česku 1992-2013

Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky jsou většinou voličů považovány za nejdůležitější z voleb, protože se při nich rozhoduje o budoucím složení vlády. Bývá v nich proto také vyšší volební účast než v jiných volbách. Protože poskytují detailní informace o volebním chování v každé z více než 6000 českých, moravských a slezských obcí, jsou volební data zvláště vhodná ke zkoumání regionálních rozdílů volebního chování a jejich prom…

Topics: City and Village, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Sociální integrace imigrantů na rozhraní mezi dočasnou migrací a trvalým usazením

The article examines the integration process of Ukrainians and Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. The authors focus on socio-cultural integration, the pre- and post-migration factors integration depends on, and the differences in the integration process of the two communities. Using survey data they show that the integration process of each group follows a different trajectory and depends on different factors. Ukrainians tend to be more integrated than Vietnamese. The primary factor influencing the level of int…

Topics: Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

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