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Zivilgesellschaft in der Tschechischen und Slowakischen Republik

Topics: Civil Society

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Economic, social and historical determinants of voting patterns in 1990 and 1992 parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

The middle class in the Czech reforms: the interplay between policies and social stratification

Following the assumption that the middle class is important in the transition from communism to a democratic market society as its leading actor and guarantor of social integration, this paper presents evidence of the benefits it has gained from economic and social reforms. As these have turned out to be rather modest, it is likely that the middle class will be more reserved in its political support for a rigorous transformation. Special attention is given to the distribution and redistribution of income in wh…

Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Social Policy, Transformation

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Změny v organizaci práce a postoje k odborům

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Topics: Economy, Work, Transformation

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Politická kultura lokálních společenství: případ tří měst

Topics: City and Village, Civil Society, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

The state of research on political parties

Topics: Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

The Czech National Identity

Topics: Value Orientations, Civil Society, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Rural and Urban Differences in Economic Experiences, Anxiety and Support for the Post-communist Reforms in the Czech and Slovak Republics

The economic experiences and economic anxiety of rural and urban residents of the Czech and Slovak Republics during the postcommunist reforms are compared and related to their support for the reforms. The analysis is based on five national surveys, 1992–1996, collected by the Sociology Institute of the now Czech Academy of Sciences. Net of controls, both Czech and Slovak rural respondents report more economic strain and unemployment, a difference that persists over the surveys. These experiences account for …

Topics: Economy, City and Village, Transformation

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Housing and Its Influence on the Development of Social Inequalities in the Post-Communist Czech Republic

This article concerns problems of housing in the Czech Republic and their regional context. The analysis has been realised onthe basis of data excerpted fromnewspapers advertisement and those placed by selected real estate agencies.The main attention is devoted to searching for possible causes of regionaldifferences in market prices of housing.…

Topics: Housing, Regions

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Social Partnership in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Trends in Czech attitudes toward the market and democracy

The post-communist transitions in Europe are both economic and political reforms. Experiences with the economic reforms and attitudes about them might undermine support for the democratic reforms, a possible contradiction embedded in post-communist transitions. We examined first trends in support for the market and democratic reforms in the Czech Republic with eleven national surveys from 1990 to 1998. We then asked if respondents' economic experiences and their attitudes about the market reforms were assoc…

Topics: Economy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Navrhované změny volebního zákona vzešlé z dodatků "opoziční smlouvy" v roce 2000 a jejich možné důsledky

The article studies the consequences of proposed chages to the lectoral law. The parameters of changes and the data on party support from opinion polls andestimation of voting patterns known from previous elections serve to modelpossible electoral outcome in terms of seats. …

Topics: Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

From Needs to the Market.The changing inequality of household income in the Czech transition

Statistical income surveys are used to document systemic changes in distribution of household income and its determinants in the period 1988-1996: 1. the growing difficulties of income surveys under the democratic regime are reflected 2. the substantive meaning of various income indicators and their relationship to the social and economic situation is discussed 3. growing disparities of income after 1989 and the shift from demographic factors (numbers of active earners and children, age) to socioeconomic facto…

Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Social Policy, Transformation

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Czech Republic

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Education and Support for the Czech Reforms

Educated Czechs fared poorly during the communist regime (1948-89) but havedone relatively well since the Velvet Revolution. This phase change is consistentwith transition theory and suggests that educated Czechs may be more supportiveof the postcommunist reforms as a consequence. To test this hypothesis, theauthors examined 11 national surveys (1990-98) of Czech respondents to determineif economic standing and other controls explained the relation betweeneducation and attitudes about the country's reforms.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Transformation, Education

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Javno mnenje in stališča parlamentarnih strank do članstva v EU v Republiki Češki" (Public opinion and Viewpoints of parliamentary Parties in Czech Republic regarding the EU Membership)

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

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Vztah poslanců českého parlamentu k voličům jako problém vertikální odpovědnosti

The article offers a detailed technical description of the research on the deputies and senators in the Czech parliament that has been conducted since 1993 by the "Political Sociology" team in the Institute of Sociology. The main theme is the representative level of the research in an international comparison and consequently in interpretation potential of this type of data.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Skating on Thin Ice: A Comparison of Work Values and Job Satisfaction in CEE and EU Countries

The article presents a critical reading of opinion data on work and job values. Three cross-national surveys are used: the ISSP module on Work Orientations, the European Values Study, and the Households-Work-Flexibility survey. In the first part, some methodological problems are described and illustrated through previous research. In the second part, several specific results are displayed. In the third part, the focus is on job satisfaction. One of the main conclusions of the analysis is that although there ar…

Topics: Value Orientations, Work, Transformation

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Executive-Legislative Relations in the Budgeting Process in the Czech Republic

The article analyse the executive-legislative relations on the case of the budgeting process. The budget is the government’s key political document. Negotiations on the budget can be taken as a case study to analyse the bargaining process in legislative institutions, reflecting the various clashes between political and partial in parliament and in parliamentary committees. The crucial factor is the distribution of the political power in parliament. …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The Labour Market in the Czech Republic: Trends, Policies and Attitudes

The paper presents various data on employment and unemployment trends, wage developments, and even workers’ opinions and their potential labour market strategies, as reflected in various surveys. In particular, it identifies the existing labour market rigidities and show that the high unemployment resembles a vicious circle, resulting in the emergence of the unemployment trap and benefit dependency. Active labour market policy measures alone appear to be insufficient to deal with this problem. …

Topics: Value Orientations, Work, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Identity Formation of Elites in Old and New Member States (with a Special Focus on the Czech Elite)

The article examines the perception of national and European identities from the viewpoint of political and economic elite. It examines the components of both identities, the relationship between national and European identities. The study is based on quantitative survey and compares elite in the Czech Republic with elite in Old and New member states. …

Topics: Elites, European Union, Identity, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Social Policy in the Czech "Republic": the Past and Future of Reforms

The development and controversies relating to Czech social policy after 1989 are described. The ambivalent character of the communist welfare state is considered first and its theoretical alternatives outlined second. After early energetic changes, stagnation has reigned since the mid-1990s. Despite problems, the current performance of the system is satisfactory. However, the system is not efficient in the long run as it would produce an increasing debt toward the future. Reforms are necessary but their feasib…

Topics: Social Policy, Transformation, Public Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Změny v příjmové nerovnosti v letech 1989-1992

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

The Labor Market in Czechoslovakia: Changing Attitudes of the Population

Changes in the labor market are observed on the base of recent surveys from various points of view: 1. the production and utilization of human capital 2. work incentives and rewards 3. private ownership and job allocation 4. work perspectives and unemployment. The transitory period will be very confused. The labor market will be segmented and the development of individual segments will be uneven. Already now, new temporary borderlines are being created. The transformation of the post-communist countries is bei…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Work, Social Capital, Transformation

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Erste Schritte der tschecho-slowakischen Gesellschaft im Transformations-prozess

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Zivilgesellschaft in der Tschechischen und Slowakischen Republik

Economic, social and historical determinants of voting patterns in 1990 and 1992 parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic

The middle class in the Czech reforms: the interplay between policies and social stratification

Změny v organizaci práce a postoje k odborům

Politická kultura lokálních společenství: případ tří měst

The state of research on political parties

The Czech National Identity

Rural and Urban Differences in Economic Experiences, Anxiety and Support for the Post-communist Reforms in the Czech and Slovak Republics

Housing and Its Influence on the Development of Social Inequalities in the Post-Communist Czech Republic

Social Partnership in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic

Trends in Czech attitudes toward the market and democracy

Navrhované změny volebního zákona vzešlé z dodatků "opoziční smlouvy" v roce 2000 a jejich možné důsledky

From Needs to the Market.The changing inequality of household income in the Czech transition

Czech Republic

Education and Support for the Czech Reforms

Javno mnenje in stališča parlamentarnih strank do članstva v EU v Republiki Češki" (Public opinion and Viewpoints of parliamentary Parties in Czech Republic regarding the EU Membership)

Vztah poslanců českého parlamentu k voličům jako problém vertikální odpovědnosti

Skating on Thin Ice: A Comparison of Work Values and Job Satisfaction in CEE and EU Countries

Executive-Legislative Relations in the Budgeting Process in the Czech Republic

The Labour Market in the Czech Republic: Trends, Policies and Attitudes

Identity Formation of Elites in Old and New Member States (with a Special Focus on the Czech Elite)

Social Policy in the Czech "Republic": the Past and Future of Reforms

Změny v příjmové nerovnosti v letech 1989-1992

The Labor Market in Czechoslovakia: Changing Attitudes of the Population

Erste Schritte der tschecho-slowakischen Gesellschaft im Transformations-prozess

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