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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
Přehled výzkumů o rodině
Chapter examines data sources of family research. The overview is limited to studies carried out in the last decade and those for which data are publicly available. The author provides an overview of relevant surveys and statistics on families, as well as information about where to find information on specific topics relevant for sociology of family, such as the attitudes to marriage and partnerships, sexual behaviour, parenting, abortion and family roles.
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Topics: Research Methodology, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting, Family, Sociological Data
Data získaná z komparativních politologických šetření
The text provides an overview of international research projects with Czech and partially Slovak participation which focused on political issues. A description of Eurobarometer (EB), the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES), European Election Study (EES) and the Civic Education Study (CIVED) research programmes is provided. A part of the chapter is also devoted to political science data in international comparative surveys as ISSP, EVS, ESS and the World Values Survey (WVS).…
Topics: Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data
Data z výzkumů volebního chování v České republice
This chapter provides an inventory and evaluation of the large number of survey datasets dealing with political and public policy topics that have been fielded in the Czech Republic since 1990. The text contains an evaluation of survey based research for elections to the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate and sub-national elections for regional and local levels of government. A short commentary on the use of Exit-polls and panel surveys is also provided.…
Topics: Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data, Elections and Electoral Research
Když o politice víme více nebo méně … Záleží na tom?
This chapter explores if having high levels of knowledge of politics makes a difference to public policy preferences? Using a statistical simulation technique the evidence presented demonstrates that on the level of total public opinion the Czech electorate would be more rightist on economic issues and liberal on social issues if it had uniformly high levels of political knowledge.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan African: A Life Course Perspective
Single motherhood in sub-Saharan Africa has received surprisingly little attention, although it is widespread and has critical implications for children’s wellbeing. Using survival analysis techniques, we estimate the probability of becoming a single mother over women’s life course and investigate the relationship between single motherhood and child mortality in 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Although a mere 5 % of women in Ethiopia have a premarital birth, one in three women in Liberia will become mo…
Topics: Parenting, Public health
Zdraví a rodinný stav
This article focuses on the link between marital status and health and presents an overview of the theories and empirical studies that are devoted to this issue. The article examines the issues of selection and causality, the importance of the quality of a union, gender differences, marital and partnership histories, and social context. It shows that, while the link between marital status and mortality or physical and mental health is well documented in the literature, the relative signifi cance of causality a…
Topics: Family, Public health
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