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This book explains why Czech voters choose specific parties. The focus is on the long-term determinants of electoral behaviour (cleavages, left-right orientation, and party identification) and on four parties with long-term representation in the Czech parliament: ČSSD, KDU-ČSL, KSČM and ODS. Moreover, the authors focused on changes in the determinants of electoral stability over time. This helped them to identify any important variations in the structural determinants of electoral behaviour over time.339,- …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

De-standardization of family trajectories: Childbearing in unmarried cohabitation not only as an alternative but also as a pathway to marriage

Based on a secondary analysis of data from qualitative research of unmarried parental couples, this article explores childbearing in unmarried cohabitation from the perspective of de-standardisation and individualization of family trajectories. Drawing upon a differentiation of their situation at the moment around childbirth and their actual attitudes, it distinguishes heterogeneity of views of unmarried parents on the position of an unmarried cohabitation with child in their family trajectories. Overall, the …

Topics: Value Orientations, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Vztah mezi pracovním a soukromým životem

Topics: Care, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Postoje k roli státu při zajištění péče o děti

Topics: Value Orientations, Care, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Neformální péče v rodině: sociodemografické charakteristiky pečujících osob

Topics: Intergenerational Relations

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Česká republika 2002–2012: hodnoty, postoje, chování. Sociální report projektu European Social Survey

In the years 2002 to 2012, Czech society experienced a series of events and changes. Similar events and changes, however, also took place in other European countries. State and development of attitudes, values and behaviour of populations of European countries in connection with these events and changes is explored by the European Social Survey research project. This book is devoted to the attitudes, values and behaviour and their changes in Czech society in the last decade. Data for the Czech Republic are com…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Economy, Criminality, Care, Politics and Political Attitudes, Work, Sociological Data, Age and Aging, Public health

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Kdo se (po)stará? Dítě mezi rodinou, státem a trhem

Based on ESS 2008/2009, this chapter focuses on public attitudes towards state’s role in provision of childcare and its accessibility in CEE countries. In the Czech Republic, where the family policy is familialistic, the public express lower expectations towards state and lower dissatisfaction with childcare accessibility. Women and parents of small children express higher expectations and dissatisfaction. Attitudes are also influenced by level of education and by attitudes to women´s employment.…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Care, Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

(recenze) Guasti, Petra, Jessie Hronešová, Zdenka Mansfeldová (eds.). 2011. The Nexus between Democracy, Collective Identity Formation, and EU Enlargement.

Topics: European Union, Identity, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

Who Watches the Watchmen? Risk Perception and Security vs. the Privacy Dilemma in the Czech Press.

Topics: Criminality, Media, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Working Paper

Department: Values and Politics

Public Opinion, Politics and Society in Contemporary Ireland.

This book demonstrates what the polling evidence tells us about changes in Irish opinion since 1970 towards key issues: The economy - has the Celtic tiger economy changed Irish citizens? --- Northern Ireland - have aspirations for a united Ireland disappeared with the peace process? --- The Liberal agenda - has Ireland become less conservative and a more tolerant society on issues such as divorce, abortion, and homosexuality? --- European integration - have Irish attitudes toward the EU changed since accession…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Jaká je ochota občanů spolupracovat s policií a co ji ovlivňuje?

The majority of crime is not detected by the police itself. Its work, if it is to be effective, depends heavily on the people?s willingness to cooperate with the police. The paper compares the degree of such cooperation between the Czech Republic and other European countries that participated on the ESS R 5 research and focuses on factors influencing the cooperation.…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Criminality, Legitimacy

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Public Opinion and Movements

The encyclopaedia entry reviews the available literature on public opinion and social movements. It discusses how social movements affect public opinion relying on processes of consensus mobilization and framing and how supportive public opinion interacts with the movement activities in achieving their political goals. …

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Adjectives of Democracy. Citizenship and Political Attitudes under Socialist and Liberal Democracy in the Czech Republic

The central empirical puzzle addressed in this book is why are Czech citizens’ attitudes towards key facets of democracy so similar under socialist democracy in 1968 and liberal democracy in 2008? Examining unique survey datasets from the late 1960s and 2008 this book reveals that Czech and Slovak citizens’ political attitudes can justifiably be characterised in terms of stability. This stability may be understood as a general feature of citizens’ relationship with democratic values and their implementat…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

How Context Matters? Mobilization, Political Opportunity Structures and Non-Electoral Political Participation in Old and New Democracies

Scholars have long argued that political participation is determined by institutional context.Within the voter turnout literature the impact of various institutional structures has beendemonstrated in numerous studies. Curiously, a similar context driven research agendaexploring the correlates of non-electoral participation has not received the same attention.This study addresses this lacuna by testing a political opportunity structure model of citizenactivism across 24 old and new democracies using ISSP (2004…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Transnational Activism of Social Movement Organizations: The Effect of European Union Funding on Local Groups in the Czech Republic

Focusing on social movement organizations (SMOs) in the Czech Republic, this articleexplores the level of transnational activism of these actors. Although knowledge exists on domestic interest groups’ choice of EU venues for lobbying, the influence of EU funding onprotest and public campaigning by actors such as SMOs remains under-studied. We showwhat the level of transnationalization of SMOs is, what types of transnational strategies SMOsemploy, and what explains these choices. Specifically, the article …

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Euroskepticismus a percepce evropského integračního procesu v České republice

V předkládané publikaci autorský tým projektu Rekonstituování demokracie v Evropě nabízí pohled na proměny české veřejné sféry a české politiky v kontextu přípravy Smlouvy o Ústavě pro Evropu, ratifikace Lisabonské smlouvy a následných voleb do Evropského parlamentu (2009). Období přípravy a ratifikace Lisabonské smlouvy (2004–2009) je velmi podnětné, protože představovalo v České republice klíčový posun hlavního proudu českého politického diskurzu v otázkách Ev…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Bertelsmann Transformation Index Czech Republic 2007

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

Postoje československých občanů k demokracii v roce 1968

A research work "Attitudes of citizens towards the politics" was carried out in May1968 for an "Interdisciplinary research team "Development of Democracy andPolitican System...". Its task was to identify political orientation of citizens (sample of 3600 respondents) in favour of a demcratic reform. Following the Occupation ofCzechoslovakia the data were not processed any more and tezy were lost. A third of them were found in 1998. The publication presents these data and theirfactor analysis. The results dispro…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Role of Politically Relevant Attitudes and Value Orientations in Electoral Decisions. The Czech Republic in 1996

Voting behaviour is generally not so much a matter of choosing one party out of a list of all parties on a ballot paper, but rather a choice between a much smaller number of acceptable parties. Typical voting behaviour may be supposed to be a choice between two parties. It is not a matter of a single important or dominant political attitude or value, but rather a complex process involving many different factors, some of which reinforce each other, while others are in contrast or even conflict. This article tri…

Topics: Value Orientations, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Working Paper

Department: Values and Politics

Imaginative geographies ako súčasť identity regiónu

Topics: Identity, Media, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Values and Politics

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Za spomienkou do Ružomber(o)ka

Stretnutie európskych geografov v Ríme

Oravský Podzámok zapojený do výskumu regionálnej identity

BRIC(S) - od skratky k medzinárodnému zoskupeniu

Formovanie teritoriálnej identity Čechov a Slovákov

Dočasná stabilita? Volební podpora politických stran v České republicev letech 1990 - 2010

De-standardization of family trajectories: Childbearing in unmarried cohabitation not only as an alternative but also as a pathway to marriage

Vztah mezi pracovním a soukromým životem

Postoje k roli státu při zajištění péče o děti

Neformální péče v rodině: sociodemografické charakteristiky pečujících osob

Česká republika 2002–2012: hodnoty, postoje, chování. Sociální report projektu European Social Survey

Kdo se (po)stará? Dítě mezi rodinou, státem a trhem

(recenze) Guasti, Petra, Jessie Hronešová, Zdenka Mansfeldová (eds.). 2011. The Nexus between Democracy, Collective Identity Formation, and EU Enlargement.

Who Watches the Watchmen? Risk Perception and Security vs. the Privacy Dilemma in the Czech Press.

Public Opinion, Politics and Society in Contemporary Ireland.

Jaká je ochota občanů spolupracovat s policií a co ji ovlivňuje?

Public Opinion and Movements

Adjectives of Democracy. Citizenship and Political Attitudes under Socialist and Liberal Democracy in the Czech Republic

How Context Matters? Mobilization, Political Opportunity Structures and Non-Electoral Political Participation in Old and New Democracies

Transnational Activism of Social Movement Organizations: The Effect of European Union Funding on Local Groups in the Czech Republic

Euroskepticismus a percepce evropského integračního procesu v České republice

Bertelsmann Transformation Index Czech Republic 2007

Postoje československých občanů k demokracii v roce 1968

The Role of Politically Relevant Attitudes and Value Orientations in Electoral Decisions. The Czech Republic in 1996

Imaginative geographies ako súčasť identity regiónu

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