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Účast při volbách do Evropského parlamentu v roce 2004 v České republice
Text analyses low turnout in the European Parliament elections in 2004 in the Czech Republic and analyses the differences from turnout in 2002 national election. Main impact on turnout had sources in terms of political experience (age, social integration as measured by urbanization). Lower turnout was measured among those who go to the church.…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Vliv nabízených možností na odpovědi respondentů ohledně blízkosti k politickým stranám ve dvou šetřeních po volbách do EP 2004
Text investigates into the sources of differences in estimates of party identification in two european surveys conducted in the same time. This research helps answer question about the nature of relationship between voters and parties. Volatility in the answers about the party closeness is influenced by the short-term (election caimpaign) and long-term factors (electoral systém, role of president in the system, support for democracy).…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Volební účast z hlediska voličského dilematu
The publication analyses the 2004 European Parliament elections from different angles and contains 15 studies. The book is divided into four parts. The first one is devoted to the analysis of positions of voters and parties, the second one to electoral behaviour, mainly the electoral participation and party choice, and the third one to party system. The last part contains studies of European parliament elections in the Czech and Slovak Republics.…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Volby do Evropského parlamentu 2004
The publication analyses the 2004 European Parliament elections from different angles and contains 15 studies. The book is divided into four parts. The first one is devoted to the analysis of positions of voters and parties, the second one to electoral behaviour, mainly the electoral participation and party choice, and the third one to party system. The last part contains studies of European parliament elections in the Czech and Slovak Republics.…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Konceptuální rámec pro studium soudržnosti české společnosti
The monograph discusses following social cohesion issues in the Czech society: social inequalities, social tension, social justice, trust and legitimacy, cohesion in spatial dimension, and influence of bridging social capital on social cohesion. Though the widely held agreement exists which factors strengthen or weaken the social cohesion and in which area of social life we can affect it by social or public policy, it seems not to be a mechanical dependency but complicated and mutual mediate influence of vario…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Value Orientations
Mass and Elite Attitudes during the Prague Spring Era: Importance and Legacy
This monograph explores public and elite opinion toward events associated with the Prague Spring of 1968 in Czechoslovakia. This investigation is based on an analysis of a unique collection of aggregate and individual level survey datasets. The central goal of this study is to illustrate how the survey evidence from the 1967 to 1969 period may increase understanding of the Prague Spring era. More specifically this study integrates theories associated with the Prague Spring era and public support for the variou…
Topics: Elites, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data, Public Opinion
Theory, Data and Analysis. Data Resources for the Study of Politics in the Czech republic
This book deals with empirical research using political survey data and is primarily intended for anyone exploring politics in the Czech Republic using quantitative data. Many of the themes addressed in this study have application to the use of quantitative political data in other national contexts and across the social sciences more generally. This book is divided into three parts: theory, data and analysis. In the first part there is an examination of the theories underpinning the most important source of po…
Topics: Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data
Finanční podpora rodin s dětmi v České republice v evropském kontextu
The book explores the structure and level of financial support addressed to families with children in the Czech Republic and 16 other European countries as of January 2004. Through analysis of tax-benefit system it examines where the Czech Republic stands in respect of family support within the European context and assesses which European policy is most similar to the Czech model of financial family support.…
Topics: Care, Family, Social Policy
Povaha občanské společnosti v České republice v kontextu střední Evropy
The core objective of this dissertation is to answer a question: What is the character of civil society in the Czech Republic in the context of Central Europe?. The author analyzes the role, character, financing and classification of Czech civil society, including a description of the barriers which the nongovernmental sector in the Czech Republic faces in the context of complex social processes such as transformation, Europeanization and globalization. …
Topics: Globalization, Civil Society, Transformation
Co občané České republiky vědí o politice a proč je to důležité?
This chapter shows that (1) Czech citizens know most about local and national politics (2) the distribution of political knowledge in the Czech Republic is biased leading to political inequality (3) in contrast to other citizens in the EU-25 member states, Czechs have lower than average levels of general knowledge of the Union (4) level of political knowledge is most strongly determined by citizen motivation followed by access to information, and ability to make sense of politics. …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Organizovaná občanská společnost v České republice po vstupu do Evropské unie
Chapter evaluates the transformations of Czech organised civil society following accession to the EU. It formulates following conclusions: civil society is shaping the space between private interests and the state in the Czech Republic. The chapter documents the growth in civil participation, both at the macro level and at the micro level. The Czech society has sufficient potential for the participative nature of civil society, and that this potential is starting to be realised.…
Topics: European Union, Civil Society
Vliv evropské integrace na politické strany, stranický systém a volební chování v České republice
This chapter studies the influence of European integration on political parties, the party system and the electoral behaviour of the Czech citizens. Europeanisation is an external factor that always emerges when something in a domestic political system is influenced by something European this influence may be direct or indirect. Based on this concept, the authors show minimal effect of Europeanization on the organisational structure and programmes of Czech political parties, the party system, cleavages and ele…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Zájmové asociace územních samospráv
The article explores two main interest groups of local authorities: Asociation of towns and cities and Asociation of regions. It focuses on their relationship towards thein members and on activities dutiny legislative lobbying.…
Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions
Proměny reprezentace zájmů po vstupu do Evropské unie
The book gives empirically well-founded study of changes of political and legal framework of the Czech Republic, analysis of existing institutional structures for interest representation. It describes the situation at the moment of joining the European Union and changes which happed after it. …
Topics: European Union, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Sociální dialog a jeho budoucnost
The chapter analyse the role of social dialogue and its importance for harmonisation of opposing interests in the field of capital and labour. Social dialogue means different forms of communication between social partners, employers and employees, organisations representing their interests. Attention is paid first of all to the social dialogue on the national level and its institutionalized form, tripartite. Development of social dialogue is analyzed in the context of European social dialogue at the end of 20t…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Public Policy
Třetí sektor a občanská participace v České republice
The chapter describes third sector and civic participation in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the role of non-governmental organizations, the character of third sector in the Czech Republic and its context in the central European region. It examines the membership of the non-governmental organizations and the third sector as a field of interest articulation. In the last part, it introduces the barriers of the civil sector in the Czech Republic.…
Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes
K důvodům nízkého počtu členů českých politických stran
Czech political parties have built their organisations since the beginning of the 1990s in an environment that was hostile to organised partisanship. They face a lack of interest among citizens in joining political parties, which can be seen in the continually falling number of members in the case of KDU-ČSL and KSČM, and in the case of ČSSD and ODS in the stagnation of the number of members since their inception. Political parties have adapted their organisational strategies to these trends and now they st…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Nové způsoby vládnutí a proměna vztahu veřejné správy a občanů
The article focuses on the change of relationship between the state, state authorities, and local self-governing authorities on the one hand and the Citizen and thein groups on the other hand. It show the new modes of governance which state and self-governing authorities use to communicate with citizen and to invite them to participace on decision-making.…
Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration
Participace a zájmové organizace v České republice
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Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration
Místo závěru: hodnoty, struktura a životní styl postsocialistických hudebních subkultur mládeže
The conclusion is a comparison of four analysed youth music subcultures regarding values, political aspects of subcultures, relation to mainstream culture, inner differentation of subcultures and alternative lifestyles. It examines traditional and post-subcultural aspects of these subcultures and their specificity in a post-socialist society.
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Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Social Inequalities, Lifestyle
Úvodem: zkoumání subkultur od stolu i v terénu
Inroduction presents traditional and contemporary theories of subcultures, both in global and Czech, post-socialist context. It defines notios and approaches to studies on subcultures and outlines ways how to examine subcultures in the Czech society.
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Topics: Value Orientations, Lifestyle
Důvěra, občanská participace a legitimita demokracie v České republice
This chapter, employing data from European Values Survey 1991, 1999 a 2008, analyses whether legitimacy of democracy in Czech Republic is boosted by trust in institutions, satisfaction with governance and also by collective social capital (social trust, networks of civic engagement). The results showed nonsignificant relation btw. social trust and civic participation trust in institutions is only very weekly correlated with non-conventional participation. Also relation btw. social and institutional trust is ra…
Topics: Legitimacy, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Capital
Koncept sociálního kapitálu
The chapter introduces detailed overview of typology, ideas and theoretical concepts of social capital. It compares classical conception of Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam. Two types/ paradigms are distinguished: individual in which social capital functions as vehicle of social status reproduction and collective (community type) when it serves as source of cohesion. Further the authors discuss aspects of community type social capital: closed and opened networks of trust and bonding and bridging social capital. Sp…
Topics: Social Capital
Důvěra a demokracie. Přehled sociologických teorií důvěry od Tocquevilla po transformaci v postkomunistických zemích
The book treats the problem of functioning of democracy from the perspective of trust. Three main types of trust are defined in the democratic system: systemic trust (legitimacy of the regime), trust in institutions and general trust in other people. The work analyzes the role of these different types of trust as well as consequences of distrust on different levels of democratic system. This concept of trust is used also to analyze the transformation process in the Czech Republic after 1989.
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Topics: Value Orientations, Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes
Zrazení snu? Struktura a dynamika postojů k politickému režimu a jeho institucím a jejich důsledky
The book analyses four main dimensions of attitudes towards political regime and its institutions and describes changes in the attitudes within the Czech society between 1996 and 2006. These attitudinal dimensions are regime legitimacy, institutional disaffection, individual disaffection and political dissatisfaction. The main argument of the book is that the political events between 1997 and 1998 caused incredible increase in the dissatisfaction with politics and political parties and it had never get back to…
Topics: Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
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