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Stávají se pracovní dráhy mladých mužů nestabilními?

This paper explores the stability of men’s the first employment in the Czech Republic between 1989-2005. The first hypothesis based on globalization theory predicts an increase of job mobility. The second one expects that changes in job mobility reflect economic cycle, whereas third one predicts a temporal increase in the job mobility at the beginning of 1990s due to sector restructuring. Analyses of Social Cohesion Survey 2006 data do not confirm an increase of young men’s work mobility. …

Topics: Economy, Globalization, Migration and Mobility, Work

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Rodinné a pracovní starty: rozmanitost modelů vstupu do dospělosti v evropských zemích

This chapter presents a concept of the transition into adulthood and the changes of this process in the contemporary societies. Using ESS 2006 data it shows that the social definition of adulthood is connected more closely with an economical independence than with a family formation. It shows that there are differences in attitudes to ideal timing of family formation and its real timing in Europe. …

Topics: Work, Parenting, Age and Aging

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Proměny rodinných a profesních startů: úvodem

This chapter describes theoretical backgrounds of this book. It shows that life course perspective provides an appropriate theoretical framework for a study of relations between the family and paid work arrangements. This chapter summarizes main changes in family behaviour in the Czech Republic during recent decades and their explanations. Based on this literature review, the chapter formulates the main research questions and topics, on which we will focus in the following chapters.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Work, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Proměny rodinných a profesních startů

This book examines the changes in the early stages in work and family trajectories in recent decades in the Czech Republic. The individual chapters focus on changes to job mobility among, the increased diversity of family trajectories, the motives for parenthood in consensual unions, and the financial support for young families. The book compares the situation of transition into adulthood in the Czech Republic to other European countries and contributes to the discussion on the de-standardisation life courses.…

Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Migration and Mobility, Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Závěr: Co rozhodlo volby do Poslanecké sněmovny v roce 2006 a co jsme se dozvěděli o volebním chování v ČR?

The text summarizes the reasons behind voter turnout and vote choice in 2006 Chamber of Deputies election. It illustrates similarity of abstainers and undecided voters whose role in elections increases. It also compares different models of vote choice and shows that the strongest explanation is provided by party identification, issue voting and leadership effects. The effect of class on voting is negligible.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Tematické hlasování, vliv lídrů a stranictví ve volbách

Text analyses factors which influenced the party choice in the 2006 Chamber of Deputies elections. The authors found out that for Czech voters the left-right ideological orientation is very important. Voters choose parties according to their position on various issues. This relationship between party choice and attitudes is strong mainly for those issues which load the left-right orientation. Party sympathy and leadership effects were even more stronger for party choice than issue voting.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Povaha a zdroje stranické identifikace

Text analyzes sources and nature of one of the best predictors of party choice: tha party identification. Firstly, the level and intensity of party identification is analyzed for each party the most identified voters are found among those of KSČM, KDU-ČSL and ODS. Secondly, the authors showed the sources of those identities whithin the family. Those who live together in the marriage or partnership have higher level of party identification and agree on party choice.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Nerozhodnutí voliči a volební kampaň

In this chapter, the authors are identifying key variables, which influence time-of-voting decision and the susceptibility for campaign effects. Using Czech Election Study 2006 data the authors analyze the role of late deciders in the campaign. This study exercises the differences between long time decided voters and late deciding voters from the perspective of their socio-demographic characteristics, attitudes and party choice as well. …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Vliv volební účasti na zisky politických stran

Text analyses the effect of turnout on the party support of different parties in the Czech Republic. After introduction of the main theories and research strategies of partisan effects of turnout hypotheses concerning this issue are tested. The results show that higher turnout is advantageous for the parties whose voters lack strong party identification (ČSSD and the Green Party). On the other hand, it brings lower gains to parties with disciplined electorate (ODS, KDU-ČSL and partly also for KSČM).…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Zdroje a motivace volební účasti

Text analyses reasons of abstaintion in 2006 election to the Chamber of Deputies. The main source of abstaintion lies in the feeling that people have no say in the political process. The abstaintion is mainly voluntary and is of long-term nature. Electoral participation is connected also with disposition of sources like time, knowledge, education or finance.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Výzkumy volebních preferencí a jejich prezentace v médiích

The chapter provides an overview of Czech election survey research and comments the issues relating to the quality and the use of results. It is focused on the pre-elections polls conducted before 2006 elections. It evaluates the quality of survey agencies work and (in)correctness and (in)accuracy of the results interpretations in some media.…

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

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Volební systém a voličské rozhodování

This chapter examines the relation between the effect of the electoral system on the representation of the parties and candidates and the electoral behaviour of the voters in elections to the House of Deputies of the Czech Parliament, especially in the latest elections in 2006. In describes impact of electoral reform. With the assistance of dates from election statistics and data from the survey: Czech Election Study 2006, it analyzes the consequences of main variables of the new system.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Voliči a volby 2006

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Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Feeling European: Elites versus Masses?

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Topics: Elites, European Union, Value Orientations, Identity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Introduction: Democratization, Collective Identity Formation, and the EU Enlargement

The chapter attempts to clarify the concept of collective identity and its intrinsic relationship to democracy. Further on, there arediscussed possible configurations of democracy in the European Union that give expression to different national, supra-national, or post-national identitarian projects (the so-called three RECON models). Finally, it outlines the contributions of the volume and shows exemplary ways how to apply collective identity research to the process of the EU enlargement and accession of Cent…

Topics: European Union, Value Orientations, Identity, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

The Nexus between Democracy, Collective Identity Formation, and EU Enlargement

As an outcome of a five-year international research project “RECON – Reconstituting democracy in Europe”, this volume presents country case studies of Central and East European countries and comparative findings from research on the transformation of collective identities in Central and Eastern Europe under the conditions of an enlarging Europe. The main aim of the present publication is to show how the emerging collective European identity is correlated with the processes of democratization and European…

Topics: European Union, Value Orientations, Identity, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Úmrtnost seniorů v České republice: trendy a perspektivy

The chapter is focused on changes in mortality of elder people in Czech Republic. …

Topics: Age and Aging, Public health

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Pracovní trh v důchodovém a předdůchodovém věku

The chapter analyzes labor market in retirement and pre-retirement age and compares the periods 1995-1997 and 1998-2000. Results indicate that the period of economic recession after 1997 witnessed earlier exists from work to retirement even though the mandatory retirement age was growing. …

Topics: Work, Age and Aging

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Kontakty s příbuznými a jejich místo v osobní sociální síti

This paper deals with social contacts and social support among parents and children, among siblings and also among secondary kins. The data for this study come from the survey Social Networks (ISSP 2001). …

Topics: Value Orientations, Intergenerational Relations, Interpersonal Relations, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Mimomanželská plodnost - současné trendy v Evropě a v České republice

The chapter is devoted to the non-marital fertility in European countries with special focus on the Czech Republic. It analyses data from demographic statistics as well as survey data. …

Topics: Value Orientations, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Láska, evoluce nebo neviditelná ruka sňatkového trhu?

The chapter is devoted to the selection of the life partner. It summarizes sociobiological as well as sociological theories and is devoted to the question which factors are important for men and which are important for women. …

Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Rodina, důvěra a demokratická společnost

In the traditional society trust used to be rooted in the family background, it formed a part of private sphere. In the opposite the modern democratic society requests from people not only trust to family member, but also another type of trust in other unknown people, as citizens and even type of impersonal trust, for example to state institutions. How are these different types of trust connected? Do they support one another or do they go against each other? Are these different types of trust rooted in the sam…

Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Životní cyklus. Sociologické a demografické perspektivy

The book is devoted to the life-course research. It focuses on the developments in the Czech Republic after 1989. Changes in family life and standard life course as well as non-standard life courses are target. The book covers the life-cycle from the assortative mating, leaving parental home, friendship, marriage and family formation, parenthood and divorces to situation of seniors and their mortality. Althogether 19 authors contributed to the book.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Family businesses and factors of their growth

The study aims to analytically interlink the optics of individuals and households and focus on their demographic and socio-economic behaviour since 1989 in the Czech Republic, and compare these observations with other EU countries, primarily those of Central Eastern Europe (CEE). The fields covered are family formation and life trajectories, earnings disparities and income inequality, the situation of self-employed and family businesses, and religion affiliation of individuals and households. …

Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Přesuny voličů ve volbách do Evropského parlamentu v roce 2004 v České republice: Testování některých implikací teorie národních voleb druhého řádu

Text tests the second-order-national-election thesis in the Czech Republic. The authors analyses two data files about voting behavoir: post-election survey EES 2004 and electoral returns from constituencies. They showed that majority of features of Euroepan Parliament election is in tune with second-ordernational-election thesis. Empirical data presented in the text suggest some important broadenings of the theory. This is shown as four new hypothesis.…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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