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Návrh úprav vybraných nástrojů bytové politiky v ČR

Návrh úprav vybraných nástrojů bytové politiky v ČR

Main goal of the chapter is to find out, how could be selected housing policy tools adjusted (or altered) to meet following criteria: anti-cyclical behaviour, tenure neutrality, wealth redistribution towards households (or individuals) in need. The authors focused on following tools: property tax, housing allowance and tax relief.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Hlavní výsledky z výzkumů veřejného mínění

Hlavní výsledky z výzkumů veřejného mínění

The author present the analysis of data from various public opinion surveys addressing higher education, namely it financing and accessibility. The analysis shows that the adult population would support the reform of financing tertiary education based on the investment principle and students’ loans. The chapter also shows that the Czech adult population is aware of the conflict between the requirement of maintaining fully publicly financed tertiary education and the capacity of the system to meet raising dem…

Topics: Public Opinion, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Sociální nerovnosti v bydlení a systémová rizika na trhu bydlení - vliv na sociální soudružnost a ekonomickou stabilitu

Sociální nerovnosti v bydlení a systémová rizika na trhu bydlení - vliv na sociální soudružnost a ekonomickou stabilitu

In situation, when Czech government is not willing and has not sufficient financial means for building cost-based social rental housing, the future of rental housing in the Czech Republic is necessarily connected with private rental housing. The chapter includes description of history of private rental housing and focuses on following questions. What is contemporary status of private rental housing in the CR? Is there a chance that it would become alternative to owner-occupied housing?…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Výzkum studentů prvních ročníků vysokých škol v České republice

Výzkum studentů prvních ročníků vysokých škol v České republice

The chapter presents the main results of the survey of university students in their first year of study. It focuses primarily on social composition of students, their aspirations and further plans, factors leading to the decision to study certain branch and specialization, students´ opinions about quality of education, costs of study as well as their attitudes to various models of financing higher education.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Sociological Data, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Systémová rizika trhu bydlení v ČR

Systémová rizika trhu bydlení v ČR

The chapter aims to answer following research questions: (1) Whether among homeowners repaying mortgage loans significantly increased after 2005 (i.e. in the period of house price boom) share of low-income households. (2) Whether in the same time increased share of risky mortgage products (i.e. mortgage loans with LTV equal or higher than 100%, "interest-only" mortgages, mortgages denominated in foreign currencies etc.) in portfolios of the Czech mortgage providers.…

Topics: Housing, Economy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Investiční princip financování v reformách českého vysokého školství

Investiční princip financování v reformách českého vysokého školství

The chapter is an analysis of the development of tertiary education reforms in the Czech Republic that have taken place after 1989. Each relevant period of the development is judged from the perspective of financing tertiary education, size and a character of its internal deficit and its effect on access to tertiary education. At the end, the chapter presents a comparative analysis of systems of financing tertiary education. For each specific model of financing (liberal, welfare, central-European) represented …

Topics: Social Inequalities, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Vyrovnaný bytový systém jako faktor snížení systémových rizik na trhu bydlení

Vyrovnaný bytový systém jako faktor snížení systémových rizik na trhu bydlení

The authors of the chapter focus on following research questions: (1) What factors explain different impacts of global economic crisis on mortgage markets and housing markets in post-socialist countries? And more specifically: (2) Could differences in institutional arrangements in housing systems and housing policies explain different impacts of economic crisis on housing markets in post-socialist countries?…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Vývoj spotřebních vzorců českých domácností

Vývoj spotřebních vzorců českých domácností

Monografie Standardy bydlení 2010/2011 je již pátou v řadě monografií se stejným názvem, ale různým vročením, vydaných Sociologickým ústavem AV ČR, v.v.i. předcházející monografie byly vydány v letech 2003, 2004, 2005 a 2008.Ačkoliv se v každém jednotlivém případě jedná o originální monografii věnující se prioritně jednomu hlavnímu tématu, kterým jsou v případě nejnovější monografie sociální nerovnosti v bydlení a rizika na trhu bydlení v České republ…

Topics: Housing, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Vývoj cen rezidenčních nemovitostí v ČR a riziko cenové bubliny

Vývoj cen rezidenčních nemovitostí v ČR a riziko cenové bubliny

The goal of the chapter is to answer the question, whether the flat prices increased in 2007 above the long-term equilibrium price level based on basic macro-economic development and the price bubble in the Czech Republic arose. The existence of the price bubble would indicate presence of systemic risk on the Czech housing market.…

Topics: Housing, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Příčiny bezdomovství v České republice

Příčiny bezdomovství v České republice

Chapter focus on the following research questions: (1) Are the causes of homelessness in the Czech Republic country-specific or more or less the same as in developed countries? (2) Could be some country-specific features of homelessness following from change in political and economic system of the Czech Republic used for extension of homelessness theories based on experiences of western countries? (3) Differ methods of successful solution of homelessness in the Czech Republic with respect to the existence of c…

Topics: Housing, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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České vysoké školství na křižovatce. Investiční přístup k financování studia na vysoké škole v sociologické reflexi

České vysoké školství na křižovatce. Investiční přístup k financování studia na vysoké škole v sociologické reflexi

This monography shows, to what extent do exist in the Czech Republic the conditions for transition from public model of financing the higher education to the share-costs principle and what are the barriers which block this transition. The team of the authors tried to link up the discussion which takes place on an economic field with the analysis of the development of efforts to reform financing of the Czech higher education in the context of his whole transformation in the post-communist époque.…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Transformation, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Regionální nerovnosti ve finanční dostupnosti bydlení v ČR

Regionální nerovnosti ve finanční dostupnosti bydlení v ČR

Chapter answers following research questions: (1) Whether the development of regional disparities in housing affordability accords with the theory of convergence or the theory of divergence or it does not correspond to any of these theories. (2) What was the number of household’s types threatened by housing unaffordability and potential social exclusion in the Czech regions? (3) Whether changes in regional disparities in housing affordability could influence labour mobility in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Housing, Regions, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Třídy bydlení v postsocialistické společnosti: realita nebo budoucnost?

Třídy bydlení v postsocialistické společnosti: realita nebo budoucnost?

Chapter focuses on three research questions: (1) How strong is the relationship between the key aspect of social stratification – socio-economic status of the household head – and housing inequalities in the Czech Republic? (2) If such relationship exists, how it has been evolving during past two decades? (3) What dimension(s) of housing inequalities, if such exists, is most significantly linked to social stratification?…

Topics: Housing, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Vývoj finanční dostupnosti nájemního a vlastnického bydlení v České republice (1991-2009)

Vývoj finanční dostupnosti nájemního a vlastnického bydlení v České republice (1991-2009)

Key research question of the chapter is whether and to what extent were social inequalities in housing affordability increasing or decreasing among different social groups of households in the period 1991-2009. Authors used innovative methodological approaches to answer the key research question.…

Topics: Housing, Research Methodology, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Mass and Elite Attitudes during the Prague Spring Era: Importance and Legacy

Mass and Elite Attitudes during the Prague Spring Era: Importance and Legacy

This monograph explores public and elite opinion toward events associated with the Prague Spring of 1968 in Czechoslovakia. This investigation is based on an analysis of a unique collection of aggregate and individual level survey datasets. The central goal of this study is to illustrate how the survey evidence from the 1967 to 1969 period may increase understanding of the Prague Spring era. More specifically this study integrates theories associated with the Prague Spring era and public support for the variou…

Topics: Elites, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Privatizace bytového fondu v České republice

Privatizace bytového fondu v České republice

Chapter is focused on following research questions: (a) Whether clear idea about the goals of the privatization of the housing stock existed. (b) Whether there were some alternatives of the chosen privatization strategy. (c) What was the role of ideology by decision about privatization strategy? Chapter includes also discussion about changes in the Middle and East European countries after 1989 and relevance of terms like ‘transitive’ and ‘path-dependence’.…

Topics: Housing

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Restituce majetku a transformace soukromého nájemního bydlení v České republice

Restituce majetku a transformace soukromého nájemního bydlení v České republice

Chapter is focused on three research questions: (1) Why was part of the housing stock in the Czech Republic restituted and why it happened in the form of natural restitution instead of financial compensation? (2) Why was preserved conservative rent control and quasi-ownership of housing even for restituted flats? (3) What were the consequences of property restitution on perceptions towards private rental housing, private landlords and their tenants in the Czech Republic?…

Topics: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Standardy bydlení 2007/2008: Faktory vysokých cen vlastnického bydlení v Praze

Standardy bydlení 2007/2008: Faktory vysokých cen vlastnického bydlení v Praze

The goal of the analytical part of the book is to present the main findings from the range of sociological surveys on factors of low financial affordability of owner-occupied housing in Prague. The factors behind high house prices in the capital city are looked for both at the demand as well as at the supply side of the housing market. The unique detailed analysis of the housing supply (housing construction) may serve as a contribution to more general discussion on housing market efficiency. …

Topics: Housing, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Standardy bydlení 2010/2011: Sociální nerovnosti a tržní rizika v bydlení

Standardy bydlení 2010/2011: Sociální nerovnosti a tržní rizika v bydlení

Housing Standards 2010/2011 is the fifth monograph in a series with the same title published by the Institute of Sociology AS CR. Although each volume in the series is a separate monograph devoted to one main theme, which in this case is social inequalities in housing and market risks in the housing market in the Czech Republic, they all are divided into a module section and an analytical section devoted to the given main theme. The structure of the module section is the same in each monograph and it is design…

Topics: Housing, Social Inequalities, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Výskyt obtěžování, úzká definice a bezradnost při řešení: shrnutí hlavních zjištění výzkumu sexuálního obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí a doporučení pro vedení vysokých škol

Výskyt obtěžování, úzká definice a bezradnost při řešení: shrnutí hlavních zjištění výzkumu sexuálního obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí a doporučení pro vedení vysokých škol

The paper sums up the findings based on a research on sexual harassment at university conducted as a part of a research project "Equal opportunities in the science: Analysis of gender barriers and development of talents" kindly supported by the Ministry of Youth and Education CR. The research report has 3 parts. The 1st part presents a findings based on a quantitative survey on a faculty of a Prague University. The 2nd part summarizes the findings based on qualitative survey of in-depth interviews. The 3rd par…

Topics: Gender, Sexuality, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Theory, Data and Analysis. Data Resources for the Study of Politics in the Czech republic

Theory, Data and Analysis. Data Resources for the Study of Politics in the Czech republic

This book deals with empirical research using political survey data and is primarily intended for anyone exploring politics in the Czech Republic using quantitative data. Many of the themes addressed in this study have application to the use of quantitative political data in other national contexts and across the social sciences more generally. This book is divided into three parts: theory, data and analysis. In the first part there is an examination of the theories underpinning the most important source of po…

Topics: Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Jak vytvářet politiky zahrnující problematiku sexuálního obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí a jak je zavádět do praxe?

Jak vytvářet politiky zahrnující problematiku sexuálního obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí a jak je zavádět do praxe?

The paper sums up the findings based on a research on sexual harassment at university conducted as a part of a research project "Equal opportunities in the science: Analysis of gender barriers and development of talents" kindly supported by the Ministry of Youth and Education CR. The research report has 3 parts. The 1st part presents a findings based on a quantitative survey on a faculty of a Prague University. The 2nd part summarizes the findings based on qualitative survey of in-depth interviews. The 3rd par…

Topics: Gender, Sexuality, Public Policy, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Kvalitativní studie sexuálního obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí

Kvalitativní studie sexuálního obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí

The paper sums up the findings based on a research on sexual harassment at university conducted as a part of a research project "Equal opportunities in the science: Analysis of gender barriers and development of talents" kindly supported by the Ministry of Youth and Education CR. The research report has 3 parts. The 1st part presents a findings based on a quantitative survey on a faculty of a Prague University. The 2nd part summarizes the findings based on qualitative survey of in-depth interviews. The 3rd par…

Topics: Gender, Sexuality, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Sexuální obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí v číslech. Kvantitativní studie vybrané fakulty pražské vysoké školy

Sexuální obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí v číslech. Kvantitativní studie vybrané fakulty pražské vysoké školy

The paper sums up the findings based on a research on sexual harassment at university conducted as a part of a research project "Equal opportunities in the science: Analysis of gender barriers and development of talents" kindly supported by the Ministry of Youth and Education CR. The research report has 3 parts. The 1st part presents a findings based on a quantitative survey on a faculty of a Prague University. The 2nd part summarizes the findings based on qualitative survey of in-depth interviews. The 3rd par…

Topics: Gender, Sexuality, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Politická agenda

Politická agenda

The publication presents more than just theoretical approaches, it puts forth a complex and very well-grounded overview of several dimensions and conceptualizations of the given phenomenon, collectively ordered according to the concept of agenda-setting. Despite the usually delimitation of this concept an attempt is made at a more three-dimensional thematic discussion and alongside covering the historical background to the various dimensions of the given phenomenon the publication tries to deal with it in both…

Topics: Media, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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