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The objective of the introductory chapter is to summarise the knowledge contained in literature to date about the Czech Parliament, inform about the existing surveys done there, touch upon the theoretical framework of the submitted publications based on the theory of representation, and introduce the structure of the literary works.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Participace, demokracie a občanství v evropském kontextu

Participace, demokracie a občanství v evropském kontextu

This study focuses on the relationship between participation and citizenship and their influence on the formation and functioning of effective representative democracy. In the first part of the study the authors introduce the theoretical framework they apply to their study of democracy, participation and citizenship. In the second part, which contains an analysis of democracy, they outline a practical framework of how democracy functions and apply this in further analysis using data from the ISSP 2004 on citiz…

Topics: Civil Society, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Český parlament ve druhé dekádě demokratického vývoje

Český parlament ve druhé dekádě demokratického vývoje

The Czech political system is construed as a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral Parliament the Parliament’s role is key even with regard to its role in creating other political institutions. The presented study deals successively with the legislative process, the role of political parties in the system of representation, the relationship between parliament and government, characteristics of deputies. The last chapter analyses the role of deputies and its perception by deputies. The study made use a bro…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Participace, demokracie a občanství v evropském kontextu

Participace, demokracie a občanství v evropském kontextu

This study focuses on the relationship between participation and citizenship and their influence on the formation and functioning of effective representative democracy. In the first part of the study the authors introduce the theoretical framework they apply to their study of democracy, participation and citizenship. In the second part, which contains an analysis of democracy, they outline a practical framework of how democracy functions and apply this in further analysis using data from the ISSP 2004 on citiz…

Topics: Civil Society, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Mediální obraz spolupráce obcí v časopisech Veřejná správa a Moderní obec

Mediální obraz spolupráce obcí v časopisech Veřejná správa a Moderní obec

The chapter analyses information about cooperation between municipalities published in mentioned magazines between January 2001 and September 2005. General information about both magazines and about published contributions are presented. Main attention is focused to areas of cooperation and its evaluation. Short comparison of both magazines with respect to main topic of interest is given in the last part of the chapter.…

Topics: Media, City and Village, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Rodinné a pracovní dráhy mladých: holistická perspektiva

Rodinné a pracovní dráhy mladých: holistická perspektiva

This study focuses on work and family trajectories between the ages of 18 and 35. It uses sequence analysis, which provides a complex description of trajectories in the holistic way. Based on module on work and family history collected as a part of ISSP 2002 in the Czech Republic, types of early work and family trajectories of cohorts born 1919–1967 are identified and the development of diversity of trajectories across cohorts is explored.…

Topics: Work, Parenting, Family, Age and Aging

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Spolupráce obcí - anketa ve svazcích

Spolupráce obcí - anketa ve svazcích

As the municipalities were disintegrated into autonomous territorial units there simultaneously emerged the first groupings of municipalities, the purpose of which was cooperation to achieve common aims. There are several hundred of such groupings in 2005. In order to obtain information on the unions and how thay function and on the attitudes of representatives of such unions an electronic survey was conducted among them. The results are used to describe and analyse the position of this new political entity at…

Topics: City and Village, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Participativní procesy v komunitním plánování sociálních služeb - vize a realita

Participativní procesy v komunitním plánování sociálních služeb - vize a realita

The chapter deals with a comparison of theoretical claims on processual features of community care planning and the reality of their application in praxis. The participative features of the process are accentuated in the chapter. The author shows that there exist some institutional specifics in the social care system in the Czech Republic which make the implementation of participatory ideals difficult. The main obstacles are unclear competencies of municipalities in providing and purchasing social services. Th…

Topics: City and Village, Civil Society, Social Policy, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Meziobecní spolupráce v Evropě

Meziobecní spolupráce v Evropě

Review of the forms of inter-municipality cooperation in some European countries.…

Topics: European Union, City and Village, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Participace a spolupráce v malých městech České republiky

Participace a spolupráce v malých městech České republiky

Participation and cooperation are conceptions that often occur in the local public service more frequently. Individual and institutional actors’ interest is crucial aspect of participative and cooperative processes in the locality. Knowledge – sufficiency of information of public affairs– is basic condition for this interest. In the process of acquiring this knowledge both individual motivation to be informed and informational strategy of the institution are important.…

Topics: City and Village, Civil Society, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Územní změny obcí v ČR od roku 1990

Územní změny obcí v ČR od roku 1990

Description of a process of municipalities disintegration during 90’s in the CR that happened as an effect of political changes. Basic information covers: 2199 new municipalities emerged as a result of division of 1032 municipalities. Disintegration touched small municipalities mainly 65 % municipalites had up to 2 th. inhabitants before the division. The new municipalities have been almost all small, 99 % have had fewer than 2 th. and one half even up to 200 inhabitants.…

Topics: City and Village, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Participace občanů v Blatné, Českém Krumlově a Velkém Meziříčí

Participace občanů v Blatné, Českém Krumlově a Velkém Meziříčí

Main objective of this chapter is to describe how the inhabitants of three small towns in the Czech Republic (Blatná, Český Krumlov and Velké Meziříčí) express their interest for participation in local government.…

Topics: City and Village, Civil Society, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Občané a veřejné dění - zájem, vliv, informovanost a spokojenost

Občané a veřejné dění - zájem, vliv, informovanost a spokojenost

The chapter is based on data of surveys conducted between 1998 and 2008 in Blatná, Český Krumlov and Velké Meziříčí. The chapter is focused on the relation of the respondents to public affairs, their sense of informedness, their opinion about the influence of selected institutions and people on the decision-making of important town issues, satisfaction of citizens with performance of town leadership, and on how the respondents acquire information about events in their town.…

Topics: City and Village, Civil Society, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Velikost obcí, efektivita jejich správy a lokální demokracie

Velikost obcí, efektivita jejich správy a lokální demokracie

The chapter sums up findings of research carried out in different countries on the relationship between community size and the effectiveness of local government, of municipal economy, local democracy and local economic development. It adresses itself to the question of integration of municipalities and discusses the different forms of integration foreseen by the Czech legislation.…

Topics: Economy, City and Village, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Demografická a socioekonomická dynamika obcí Blatná, Český Krumlov a Velké Meziříčí za psoledních 20 let jako podmiňující faktor jejich rozvoje

Demografická a socioekonomická dynamika obcí Blatná, Český Krumlov a Velké Meziříčí za psoledních 20 let jako podmiňující faktor jejich rozvoje

The chapter shows the context in which the local politics and different forms of development partnership are executed. It analyses the position of three small and mid-sized municipalities according to their geographic location, its local economic atractiveness and socio-economic structure of its inhabitants. It shows that all three of them are important local employment centre with a suburban belt around them. On the other hand all of them are loosing population of young economically actives.…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Regions, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Proměny a fúze kultur v procesech postkomunistické transformace a evropské integrace

Proměny a fúze kultur v procesech postkomunistické transformace a evropské integrace

The volume provides sociological interpretation of policie and institutions in the period of Czech transformation and accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union, as well as involved value bacgrounds.…

Topics: European Union, Transformation, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Press and Publications Department

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Aplikace principů partnerství a participace v prostředí malých měst České republiky

Aplikace principů partnerství a participace v prostředí malých měst České republiky

In this volume of Sociological Studies, readers are presented with the results of a number of studies that examined the participation of citizens in the decision-making process at the local level and in the partnership between public administration (the municipal authorities) and NGOs or even businesses. The objective of the authors of the individual chapters in this volume was to contribute to the understanding of how the principles of the democratic administration of society are applied in the Czech Republic…

Topics: City and Village, Civil Society, Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Spirituální hodnoty současné české společnosti

Spirituální hodnoty současné české společnosti

The paper concerns with contemporary Czech spirituality/religiosity and its impact on socio-economic values.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Postoje k rodině, manželství a rodičovství

Postoje k rodině, manželství a rodičovství

The volume provides sociological interpretation of policie and institutions in the period of Czech transformation and accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union, as well as involved value backgrounds. …

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Parenting, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Hodnoty práce a spokojenost v zaměstnání

Hodnoty práce a spokojenost v zaměstnání

The volume provides sociological interpretation of policie and institutions in the period of Czech transformation and accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union, as well as involved value bacgrounds.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Work

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Obrazy zaměstnaných žen v současných českých televizních seriálech

Obrazy zaměstnaných žen v současných českých televizních seriálech

This publication presents a quantitative look at the issue of gender segregation – a statistical image – and a qualitative image of the social reality of women’s labour as portrayed in contemporary Czech television serials. The analysis showed that the Czech labour market continues to be and has long been heavily segregated and the degree of segregation is only decreasing very slowly. The interconnected gender system of prestige, segregation, wage differences between men and women, and the aspects and co…

Topics: Gender, Media, Work

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Proměny socioekonomických hodnot v důsledku migračních procesů

Proměny socioekonomických hodnot v důsledku migračních procesů

The paper describes and analyses contemporary migrations to the Czech Republic and its socio-economic consequences. The author epmhasise value differences between imigrants and Czech majority.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Ekonomická kultura veřejné správy

Ekonomická kultura veřejné správy

The volume provides sociological interpretation of policie and institutions in the period of Czech transformation and accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union, as well as involved value bacgrounds.…

Topics: European Union, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Press and Publications Department

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Příčiny a důsledky segregace - úvod do genderové perspektivy v sociologii

Příčiny a důsledky segregace - úvod do genderové perspektivy v sociologii

This publication presents a quantitative look at the issue of gender segregation – a statistical image – and a qualitative image of the social reality of women’s labour as portrayed in contemporary Czech television serials. The analysis showed that the Czech labour market continues to be and has long been heavily segregated and the degree of segregation is only decreasing very slowly. The interconnected gender system of prestige, segregation, wage differences between men and women, and the aspects and co…

Topics: Gender, Work, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Tradice a změny v zemědělství

Tradice a změny v zemědělství

The paper concerns with the transformation of Czech agriculture in an international kontext after 1989, i tis based on data from qualitative research.…

Topics: City and Village, Transformation, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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