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Zivilgesellschaft im Transformationsprozeß Ost-Mitteleuropas: Ungarn, Polen und die Tschechoslowakei
Der fünfte Band von Systemwechsel analysiert Herausbildung, Struktur und Funktion von Zivilgesellschaften im Transformationsprozeß von der Autokratie zur Demokratie. Wie in den vorherigen Bänden beschäftigt sich der erste Teil mit theoretischen Fragen und der zweite Teil mit konkreten empirischen Analysen. Der Band enthält Beiträge zur Gestalt und Funktion bestimmter Typen von Zivilgesellschaften im Hinblick auf den Erfolg der Demokratisierungsprozesse, informiert zum Verhältnis von Nationalismus und Zi…
Topics: Civil Society, Transformation
Czech Republic
This is a comprehensive study that compares the origins, structure, composition and activities of cabinets in Eastern Europe and draws lessons from this comparison. Each chapter begins with a survey of the evolution of cabinets since the fall of communism at the beginning of the 1990s. The authors then look at the place of the cabinet in the constitution and on the role of presidents and prime ministers. At a time when most Eastern European countries are candidates for membership in the European Union, this vo…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation
Die Tschechische Republik
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation
Wahlen im Transformationsprozeß der Tschechischen Republik
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation, Elections and Electoral Research
The Czech Republic
The country-specific chapter on Czech Republic, as all 13 chapters on Central and East European Countries, provides the reader with standard handbook information on voting behaviour, cabinet formation, electoral and constitutional arrangements from 1989 and onwards. A common theme of all chapters is political cleavages and the chapter offers in-depth analyse of the changing cleavage structure in Czech Republic …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Seiroshikyogi no seidoka to sono jissai (Institutionalization and Practices of the Tripartite System)
The book deals with employment problems and labour relations in Czech Republic in System Transition and covers macro-, mezzo- and micro-level. Besides economic development, employment problems, interest representation of employers and employees the attention is paid also to the changes in value orientations and work attitudes. The authors are Czech and Japanese sociologist, specialist on East-Central Europe. This enables to see the Czech development in broader context of globalization. …
Topics: Economy, Value Orientations, Work, Transformation
The Czech Republic: critical democrats and the persistence of democratic values
The chapter is based on World Value Survey data and describes the support for democracy and autocracy, political involvement, confidence in institutions, as well as attitudes relevant to an assessment of the ethos of political and civil community. In addition a hypothesis is examined, that Czech society maintained democratic values in spite of the communist regime …
Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation
Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Fallstudien zu den Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitsbeziehungen in Polen, Tschechien und der Slowakei
Ausländische Direktinvestitionen haben in Ostmitteleuropa seit 1990 einen erheblichen Modernisierungsschub der Wirtschaften bewirkt. Neue Managementkonzepte, Unternehmensorganisationen und Technik wurden vielfach mit implementiert. Die Arbeitsbeziehungen waren am Anfang entweder noch geprägt von den Bedingungen der Planwirtschaft oder mussten ganz neu gestaltet werden. Das Buch analysiert die entstandenen Modelle der Arbeitsbeziehungen.Foreign direct investment has since 1990 contributed to the considerable …
Topics: Economy, Work, Transformation
Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making
The chapter analyses the character of the cabinet as a decision-making body. The ministers fulfil two primary tasks in parliamentary governments and these two tasks are, in certain extent, contradictory. First, with the exception of ministers without portfolio and the prime minister, they each head the department and, in this capacity, they have to address the issues and defend the interests of their department. Secondly, they belong to the cabinet as a „collective“ body and therefore, contribute to solvin…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Policy
NGOs and the public: Understanding the lack of public mobilisation
Topics: Public Opinion
Polní pokusy s geneticky modifikovanými plodinami jako místa střetů výzkumu a veřejnosti
Topics: Value Orientations, Public Opinion
Legislative Budgeting in the Czech Republic
The book deals with one of the three core functions of legislatures – the oversight, and demonstrates, how this function is performed in case of state budget. The chapter then analyses the specifics of the budget negotiation process in the Czech Republic, which is different from the general legislative process. Attention is paid to single stages of the budgeting process and the role the parliament and parliamentary oversight. …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Příroda v národním parku Šumava: Příroda nezačíná tam, kde končí lidská intervence
Topics: Value Orientations
Hrátky s čerty? Politické souvislosti a přesahy sociálně-vědního výzkumu
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Policy
Czech Trade Union in EU Governance
The central question addressed by this book is whether trade unions from the post-socialist states have successfully represented their interests at the EU level. The chapter deals with the trade unions in the Czech Republic and thein role in EU Governance. …
Topics: European Union, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes
Science Policy and STS from Other Epistemic Places
Recently there have been pleas for STS to make a difference in how science policies are constructed and enacted. Much less remarked upon is the possibility that there may be troubling alignments between science studies and research policies in the form of shared conceptual, epistemological and methodological assumptions. Both have come to emphasise material outputsand visible activity, obscuring other processes, relationships and orderings involved in science work. This collection of papers …
Topics: Sociology of Sciences
Identity Formation of Elites in Old and New Members States (with special Focus on the Czech Elite)
The chapter focuses on national and European identity and examines, whether Europe is united or still divides concerning the new European identity. First part outlines the multiple natures of identity and different types of territorial attachment the second one examines the position of elites on European integration. The third part analyse the components of national and European identities and the final one focuses on exploration of the interdependencies between the aspects of both identities.…
Topics: Elites, European Union, Identity
Making Pure Science and Pure Politics: On the Expertise of Bypass and the Bypass of Expertise
This article is based on a case study of a long-term public controversy over the construction of a highway bypass (around Plzen,Czech Republic). Two principal variants of the bypass were proposed. One of them began gradually to appear preferable, increasingly attractive for experts, but remaining only on paper. In the meantime, however, the other variant became more realistic, pushed through mainly by local politicians and actually constructed. This article shows how purification of science frompolitics (…
Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociology of Sciences
The Czech Parliament and the Ratification Debate
The following chapter is dedicated to the discussions on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by the Parliament of the Czech Republic and its further implications. The first part deals with the stance of the Czech political elite towards the European integration and its further deepening, which should allow us to understand the grounds for its behaviour. The next part analyses the actual ratification discussions, which were extended into the Czech Presidency term. The last part of the chapter follows the coop…
Topics: Elites, European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes
Beyond inclusion: effects and limits of institutionalised public participation
European institutions as well as member states have been recently promoting participatory procedures that are proclaimed to contribute to the legitimacy of political regimes and decision-making processes. Discussing three cases in the controversy over GMOs in the Czech Republic and France, this paper analyses participatory procedures as a power technique, and argues that they have a tendency to strengthen existing power and epistemic relationships. The paper goes on to focus on the initiative of Faucheurs volo…
Topics: European Union, Value Orientations, Civil Society
Central European Parliaments over Two Decades – Diminishing Stability? Parliaments in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia
This paper compares the development in four Central European parliaments in the second decade after the fall of communism. At the end of the first decade, the four parliaments could be considered stabilised, functional, independent and internally organised institutions. Attention is paid particularly to the changing institutional context and pressure of ‘Europeanisation’, the changing party strengths, and the functional and political consequences of these changes.…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes
Immutable Mobiles Derailed: STS, Geopolitics, and Research Assessment
Science policies and science studies largely share an understanding of scientific knowledge and objects as immutable mobiles. This article shows how the analysis of research assessment in a non-Anglophone country and its effects on social sciences can shed new light on this shared notion. The preference for immutable mobiles in assessment regimes pushes social scientists to publish in specialized, usually Anglophone journals, which can result in the attenuation of local relevance of the knowledge they produ…
Topics: Value Orientations, Sociology of Sciences
Social technology transfer? Movement of social science knowledge beyond the academy
Technology has become a key vehicle and index of the societal impact of science. Technology’s dominant image, both in science and technology studies (STS) and in science policies, is one of a material device or a complex procedure using machines with origins in natural science disciplines. This article inquires into the vehicles and forms of societal impact in the case of the social sciences. It empirically looks into the generation and circulation of knowledge and expertise on Roma and, drawing upon S…
Topics: Sociology of Sciences
Central European Parliaments over Two Decades – Diminishing Stability? Parlament in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia
The chapter compares the development in four Central European parliaments in the second decade after the fall of communism. At the end of the first decade, the four parliaments could be considered as rather stabilised, functional, independent and internally organised institutions. Attention is paid particularly to the changing institutional context and pressure of ‘Europeanisation’, the changing party strengths, and the functional and political consequences of these changes.…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes
Tschechische Republik. Zivilgesellschaft, Verbände und Interessengruppen
Der Band umfasst systematische Analysen der Verbändelandschaften und der Interessengruppen in 27 europäischen Ländern sowie der Europäischen Union. Die einzelnen Beiträge untersuchen die historische Entwicklung, die rechtlichen Grundlagen, die Strukturen des jeweiligen nationalen Interessenvermittlungssystems sowie die Beziehungen der Verbände zu den wichtigsten politischen Institutionen. Das Werk vermittelt Grundinformationen über die nationalen Systeme funktionaler Interessenvermittlung, deren Bedeu…
Topics: European Union, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes
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