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This article is looking at theoretical approaches to the study of corruption and tries to answer the question what could be the reason behind differences in the level of corruption between post-communist countries and established democracies in Europe on the theoretical level. First, this article discusses the problems of the definition of corrupt on. Next, this article presents the most important theories explaining corruption from the sociological point of view. This article will focus especially on norms (w…

Topics: Corruption

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization

Subjective well-being is usually studied with respect to marital and occupational status, income or subjective health. Conversely, research examining the relationship between this phenomenon and crime-related factors is still relatively limited. This study therefore aims to extend the current knowledge in this area. Using data from the fifth wave of the European Social Survey for the Czech Republic, in which 2386 respondents participated, we conduct a hierarchical regression analysis to find out to what extent…

Topics: Gender, Criminality

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Schicksalswende? Prozesse und Profile demokratischer Konsolidierung in Tschechien und der Slowakei

Kapitola srovnává přechod od autoritativního režimu v Československu k pluralitní demokracii ve dvou (později nezávislých) státech - České republice a Slovenské republice. Přitom je zvláštní pozornost věnována fungování demokracie v rámci konceptu ukotvené demokracie a je srovnáván vliv interních a externích faktorů. Autorky argumentují tím, že srovnání dvou zemí, které mají dlouhou společnou historii a prošly společně první fází demokratizace, aby se nakonec vyda…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Does work make mothers happy?

The paper explores the link between employment and subjective well-being among mothers with small children. Using a pooled sample of the ESS 2004–2014 data from 30 European countries. Analyzing multiple measures of subjective well-being, the paper shows that homemakers are happier than full-time workers. There were no significant differences between homemakers and part-time workers. The variation across countries was not linked to the provision of formal childcare, of parental leave, or tax system.…

Topics: Work, Family

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The relationship between fear of crime and risk perception across Europe

Cross-national comparisons of fear of crime have been gaining in popularity within the academic community, as they allow for the examination of both individual and country-level correlates of this phenomenon. Nevertheless, the role of perceived victimization risk in fostering fear of crime with respect to various country specifics is often neglected. Drawing on data from the European Social Survey Round 5 (ESS R5), the aim of this study is to explore the relationship between fear of crime and risk perception i…

Topics: Criminality

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The impact of parenting style on fear of crime among adolescent girls and boys

Research on adolescent fear of crime is still relatively limited and often simply applies theoretical explanations proposed for adults. This study strives to extend current knowledge in this field by analyzing the impact of parenting style on fear of crime, namely parental attachment, parental supervision, and parental support of adolescent autonomy, while also considering possible gender differences. Using data from a self-report survey of approximately 1500 Czech adolescents, a hierarchical regression analys…

Topics: Gender, Criminality

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Significant others and the importance of ancestry for Czech national identity

Nations are viewed as metaphorical families having common ancestors. Czechs, for example, share the legend about a forefather Čech who brought his people into Czechia. Analysing the Czech ISSP 2013 data we examine how the importance of having Czech descent depends on Christian denomination, openness towards immigration, perceived commonality with ‘significant Others’, foreign-born parents, and socio-demographics. Results of the analysis suggest that Czech ancestry is less important part of national identi…

Topics: Identity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

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Topics: Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Why are pre-election polls wrong?

This chapter focuses on the pre-election polling in the Czech Republic. Specifically, it discusses the possible reasons why are pre-election polls wrong almost every elections. Chapter offers several explanations of this phenomenon, such as lying of respondents, reluctance to answer the survey questions, embargo, and others.…

Topics: Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Measuring corruption in Europe: Public opinion surveys and composite indices

This article offers a concise overview of composite indices and public opinion surveys measuring corruption perception and bribery on the European level and ascertains their quality and usefulness based on several criteria. Specifically, this article covers measures by the World Bank (Control of Corruption), Transparency International (Corruption Perception Index and Global Corruption Barometer), European Social Survey, International Social Survey Programme, World Values Survey, and Eurobarometer. Fi…

Topics: Corruption, Research Methodology

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Corruption in European Countries: A Cross-national Comparison

This paper analyses the Control of corruption as measured by the World Bank and the possible causes for the level of corruption on a European level. Theories explaining the causes of corruption on a global level, namely GDP per capita, income inequality, generalized trust and the share of Protestants in the population are discussed and their validity is tested on a European level by pooling the data and conducting OLS regression analysis on the full sample of the European Social Survey data in the period …

Topics: Value Orientations, Corruption, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Vliv klimatu školní třídy a jejího socioekonomického složení na občanské znalosti a postoj k volební účasti.

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The role of basic values and education on women’s work and family preferences in Europe

Purpose – Consistent with dual-process models of behaviour, Miles (2015) has shown that Schwartz’ basic values can provide a valuable framework for empirically analysing the role of values and cultural contexts in driving human behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this line of research by distinguishing individual values from macro-level values, as well as from other micro- and macro-conditions, in order to test whether individual values shape women’s work-family orientations in ways …

Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Education

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Krása jako kapitál: Role atraktivity v úspěchu na trhu práce

The main objective of the paper is threefold: first, to examine the role of physical attractiveness in the labour market in the broader context of economic and sociological theory second, to assess gender differences in returns to beauty and third, to show that the empirical evidence on gender differences in returns to beauty that has to date prevailingly come from North America cannot be applied to Europe without further examination. We use data from the first large-scale sociological survey focusing on physi…

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The Social-Psychological Context of Human Values: The Reciprocal Relationship between Personality Traits and Value Orientations

This article investigates and tests the relationship between values (PVQ scale) and personality traits (NEO-FFI) using non-recursive structural modelling while controlling for other potentially significant variables (e.g. age, gender, attractiveness, cognitive skills), an approach that is proposed as an alternative to correlation and regression analyses, which are more common in this type of psychological research. Structural modelling, based on representative data from the Czech follow-up to the PIAAC interna…

Topics: Value Orientations

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Political Knowledge in the Czech Republic

About this bookThis book examines the origins, nature, and impact of different facets of political knowledge in the Czech Republic between 1967 and 2014. The central argument presented in this book is that evaluating citizens on the basis of objective, or factual, knowledge alone makes little sense. What citizens know about politics comes from a variety of sources that are complementary. This is the first detailed study of how much Czechs know about politics, and why it matters. Here are some of the key fin…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Contemporary Czech Society

Do Czechs want equality?Are Czechs a nation of grumblers?Are Czechs prejudiced?How do Czechs spend their time?Czexit?What do Czechs think about migrants and do Czechs fear foreigners?Price of the book 350 CZK or US$14 (552 pages)The book is available from a number of online sources such as Amazon.com and AbeBooks.comAmazon: https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Czech-Society-Pat-Lyons/dp/8073302993AbeBooks: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22232203986&searchurl=kn%3D9788073302993%26sts…

Topics: Economy, Intergenerational Relations, Migration and Mobility, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Rodina a kariéra ve světle hodnot a víry

Topics: Intergenerational Relations, Religion and religiosity, Care, Work, Regions, Family, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Proměny hlučínské religiozity a hodnotové struktury hlučínského katolíka

Topics: Value Orientations, Religion and religiosity, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Sociální kapitál – mezilidská, regionální a institucionální důvěra

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Regions, Social Capital

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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The Czech Republic

Was Life Good in Communist Czechoslovakia? An Empirical Test of Halbwachs’s Theory of Collective Memory

Can Political Inequality be reduced in the Classroom? Testing the Compensation Hypothesis and the BFLPE on Youth Civic Competence

Political Inequality among Czech Youth: How Do Classroom Discussions Foster a Sense of Internal Political Efficacy

Recenze: „Lukáš Linek: Kam se ztratili voliči? Vysvětlení vývoje volební účasti v České republice v letech 1990–2010.“

Theories explaining corruption in post-communist countries

Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization

Schicksalswende? Prozesse und Profile demokratischer Konsolidierung in Tschechien und der Slowakei

Does work make mothers happy?

The relationship between fear of crime and risk perception across Europe

The impact of parenting style on fear of crime among adolescent girls and boys

Significant others and the importance of ancestry for Czech national identity

Komparace metodických postupů předvolebních průzkumů agentur CVVM, ppm factum, Median a STEM

Why are pre-election polls wrong?

Measuring corruption in Europe: Public opinion surveys and composite indices

Corruption in European Countries: A Cross-national Comparison

Vliv klimatu školní třídy a jejího socioekonomického složení na občanské znalosti a postoj k volební účasti.

The role of basic values and education on women’s work and family preferences in Europe

Krása jako kapitál: Role atraktivity v úspěchu na trhu práce

The Social-Psychological Context of Human Values: The Reciprocal Relationship between Personality Traits and Value Orientations

Political Knowledge in the Czech Republic

Contemporary Czech Society

Rodina a kariéra ve světle hodnot a víry

Proměny hlučínské religiozity a hodnotové struktury hlučínského katolíka

Sociální kapitál – mezilidská, regionální a institucionální důvěra

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