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This article concerns problems of housing in the CR and their regional context. the analysis has been realised on the basis of data excerpted from newspapersadvertisement and those placed by selected real estate agencies. The mainattention is devoted to searching for possible causes of regional differencesin market prices of housing.…

Topics: Housing, Regions

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Fungování národních, regionálních a lokálních vlád – problém měření výkonu vlád („government performance“)

This article tries to answer how government performance can be measured. Possible approaches can be dividend into four groups: approaches using indicators of the socio-economic development in the governed area, approaches measuring government performance by means of a subjective evaluation, approaches focused on procedural and institutional effectiveness and the quality of government performance and approaches measuring government performance with the aid of aggregate indexes.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Regionální rozdíly ve volebních výsledcích v České republice – parlamentní volby 1996-2006

The article deals with voting patterns of major political parties in the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic between 1996 and 2006. The results of analyses prove that major Czech political parties have quite stable voting patterns. The most of spatial variation in electoral preferences can be attributed to structural differences among districts. Key underlying factors explaining spatial variation of party electoral results are of socio-economic nature.…

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

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

Části obcí s vlastní samosprávou a bez ní: Vliv administrativního statusu části obce na její rozvoj

The paper deals with the analysis of socio-economic and infrastructural differences of small commu¬nities disposing of their own local government and communities which form a part of a bigger mu¬nicipality and don’t dispose therefore of their own local government. The authors seek an answer to the question what impact has the administrative status of a community on its development. The results indicate that the impact of the administra¬tive status on development is generally weak.…

Topics: Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

Ovlivňuje finanční (ne)dostupnost bydlení porodnost v České republice

The article examined relations between statistic housing financial affordability and demographic behavior in regions of the Czech Republic. The conducted analyses proved that the lower is housing affordability in region the higher is the average age of mothers and the lower is the total fertility rate. However, housing affordability influence more timing of the childbearing than the total fertility rate.…

Topics: Housing, Regions, Parenting, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

Czech Green politics after two decades: the May 2010 general election

This article examines the electoral results of the Czech Green Party in the 2010 elections to the lower house of the Czech Parliament, placing those results in both historical and sociological perspective. In particular, the article analyzes the social bases of Green Party support in past parliamentary elections, and identifies reasons for the party’s substantial decline in electoral support in 2010.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Problémové rezidenční čtvrti a politiky k jejich regeneraci v postsocialistickém městě – studie Prahy

The article examines regeneration policies in Prague. After introducing the concept of regeneration and regeneration theories and reviewing foreign cases of regeneration of problem neighbourhoods, the authors analyse the situation in Prague focusing on two selected city districts.…

Topics: Regions, Public Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Food Self-Provisioning in Czechia: Beyond Coping Strategy of the Poor: A Response to Alber and Kohler’s ‘Informal Food Production in the Enlarged European Union’ (2008)

Food systems are of increasing interest in both research and policy communities. Surveys of post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) show high rates of food self-provisioning. These practices have been explained in terms of being ‘coping strategies of the poor’. Alber and Kohler’s ‘Informal Food Production in the Enlarged European Union’ (2008) offers a prominent account of this argument, supported by quantitative data. However, evidence from our case study of food self-provisioni…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

’Věřím, že o něm nebudu nikdy nic jistého vědět,’ aneb religiozita Karla Havlíčka Borovského

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

‘Lepší, jasnější a rozumnější názor na život’ – žeh. Kremační hnutí v českých zemích na konci 19. a v první polovině 20. století

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Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Bogomilové - duchovní předchůdci renesance a reformace v Evropě

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Most, nebo propast? Co vyplynulo ze sociologického výzkumu o českých navrátilcích z emigrace po roce 1989

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Transformation

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

A Bridge or a Chasm?

Comments on the government treatment returning emigrants and refugees of the former communist regime in Czech Republic. Consideration as important investment resources failure to establish a link between East and West emigrants by repatriates Provision of citizenship and property return.…

Topics: Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies