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Empirická šetření realizovaná v rámci projektu

The article informs of surveys conducted during the project „Forms and Effectivity of Intermediation of Interests between Individuals, social groups and the State.“…

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Organizovaná občanská společnost v České republice po vstupu do Evropské unie

Chapter evaluates the transformations of Czech organised civil society following accession to the EU. It formulates following conclusions: civil society is shaping the space between private interests and the state in the Czech Republic. The chapter documents the growth in civil participation, both at the macro level and at the micro level. The Czech society has sufficient potential for the participative nature of civil society, and that this potential is starting to be realised.…

Topics: European Union, Civil Society

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Vliv evropské integrace na politické strany, stranický systém a volební chování v České republice

This chapter studies the influence of European integration on political parties, the party system and the electoral behaviour of the Czech citizens. Europeanisation is an external factor that always emerges when something in a domestic political system is influenced by something European this influence may be direct or indirect. Based on this concept, the authors show minimal effect of Europeanization on the organisational structure and programmes of Czech political parties, the party system, cleavages and ele…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Zájmové asociace územních samospráv

The article explores two main interest groups of local authorities: Asociation of towns and cities and Asociation of regions. It focuses on their relationship towards thein members and on activities dutiny legislative lobbying.…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Proměny reprezentace zájmů po vstupu do Evropské unie

The book gives empirically well-founded study of changes of political and legal framework of the Czech Republic, analysis of existing institutional structures for interest representation. It describes the situation at the moment of joining the European Union and changes which happed after it. …

Topics: European Union, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Sociální dialog a jeho budoucnost

The chapter analyse the role of social dialogue and its importance for harmonisation of opposing interests in the field of capital and labour. Social dialogue means different forms of communication between social partners, employers and employees, organisations representing their interests. Attention is paid first of all to the social dialogue on the national level and its institutionalized form, tripartite. Development of social dialogue is analyzed in the context of European social dialogue at the end of 20t…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Třetí sektor a občanská participace v České republice

The chapter describes third sector and civic participation in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the role of non-governmental organizations, the character of third sector in the Czech Republic and its context in the central European region. It examines the membership of the non-governmental organizations and the third sector as a field of interest articulation. In the last part, it introduces the barriers of the civil sector in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Kritická rekonstrukce diskuse: evropská versus česká politika péče

The final chapter systematically summarizes the debate about the politics of care, respectively family policy in the Czech Republic with the references to the context of European Union. With the references to the up-to-date analysis of contemporary paradoxical societal development and to feminist analysis it critically examines negative moments of contemporary arrangement which serve as a point of departure for the outline of possible way of theorizing and thinking about the societal organization of care. …

Topics: European Union, Gender, Care, Parenting, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

K důvodům nízkého počtu členů českých politických stran

Czech political parties have built their organisations since the beginning of the 1990s in an environment that was hostile to organised partisanship. They face a lack of interest among citizens in joining political parties, which can be seen in the continually falling number of members in the case of KDU-ČSL and KSČM, and in the case of ČSSD and ODS in the stagnation of the number of members since their inception. Political parties have adapted their organisational strategies to these trends and now they st…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Kdo se bojí zaměstnané matky?

The paper focus on the position of women with children on the Czech labour market and the role of social policy. It deals with their working conditions, discriminations and the conditions for work and family reconciliation. The first part of the paper concerns the basic indicators of gender inequalities. The aim of the second part of the paper is to answer the question about who is afraid of working mother. …

Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Nové způsoby vládnutí a proměna vztahu veřejné správy a občanů

The article focuses on the change of relationship between the state, state authorities, and local self-governing authorities on the one hand and the Citizen and thein groups on the other hand. It show the new modes of governance which state and self-governing authorities use to communicate with citizen and to invite them to participace on decision-making.…

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

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Rodičovská (je) pro oba rodiče!

The chapter deals with the degradation of parental leave if taken as „vacation“ and the neglected role of fathers in upbringing and caring for young children. …

Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Kam směřuje česká společnost v oblasti denní péče o předškolní děti?

Czech Republic has abandoned its previous childcare policy after 1989. It is currently among the countries with the lowest percentage of children under the age of three in formal childcare while percentages of older children are rather average or high in European comparison. The chapter analyzes causes of the decline in the formal childcare and answers several questions: Who cares for children in current Czech society? What is the future of pre-school childcare in Czech society? Does Czech society need a new p…

Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Participace a zájmové organizace v České republice

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

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Promarněná šance na změnu: zhodnocení reformy rodičovského příspěvku

The article analyses the shape and the impacts of the reform of parental allowance in the CR in 2008. It shows that the reform will lead to increasing of social inequalities and will disadvantage certain groups of population, for. ex. lone mothers. …

Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Dynamika české společnosti a osudy lidí na přelomu tisíciletí

Political, demographic, social geographic, branch, proffession, economic and cultural changes in the Czech Republic and its mutual relations. Class organisation, stratification, egalitarian levelling of Czech Society after more than ten years of transformation. Life trajectories of individuals and social groups, changes in life strategies. Jakými životními dráhami prošli jednotlivci a sociální skupiny, změny životní strategie? Relationships of modernisation, EU, social cohesion.…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Práce a péče. Proměny "rodičovské" v České republice a kontext rodinné politiky Evropské unie

The book examines legislative and institutional framings of childcare and its gendered impacts in the Czech Republic in the context of current policies of care in other European countries. The aim is to introduce results of analyses of empirical data on childcare to public debates and to point on several conceptual mistakes in current policy of care in the Czech Republic. …

Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Parenting, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Dráhy bydlení

This chapter consists of the theoretical description of common approaches used by analysis of housing careers in studies of foreign researchers. The approaches based on the concepts of the life cycle, life course and housing consumption are explained. With the use of the data from the survey Housing Attitudes in the Czech Republic 2001 is presented basic knowledge about the housing careers of the Czech households in the period 1960 - 2001. This knowledge is also compared with the findings of selected research …

Topics: Housing, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Adresný příspěvek na nájemné

The focus of this text is a comparison of two selected models of rent subsidies in the Czech Republic. The reader will also find a theoretic description of systems found in selected countries of the EU, as well as the situation in the Czech Republic. With the use of the data from the Family Budget Survey of the Czech Statistical Office testing and analysis was carried out on a simplified German model and the proposal for the concept of the new rent subsidy devised in the Czech Republic. In the conclusion are s…

Topics: Housing, European Union, Social Policy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Sociální bydlení

The authors of the book „Housing – Res Publica“ describe the development of housing policies in selected developed and transitional societies and they especially provide the description and comparison of different systems of social housing and housing allowances. The authors evaluate the current housing policy tools in the Czech Republic from the point of view of efficiency and effectiveness. Based on international comparison and the conclusions from analyses of state inteventions to housing market in th…

Topics: Housing, European Union, Social Inequalities, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Kdo je kdo v české sociologii a příbuzných oborech

Scholarly elboreted biographical and thematical encycloppaedia of 213 contemporary Czech sociologists and academics in related disciplines and 28 sociological departments/institutes in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Finanční dostupnost vlastnického a nájemního bydlení v ČR a zemích EU

The aim of the study is the evaluation of the financial affordability of owner-occupied and rental housing in the Czech Republic, the description of the trend during 1990s, and the comparison with selected EU countries. The common indicator of affordability of the rental housing is used ů the housing expenditures to income ratio. The significant improvement of the traditional approach consists in the adjustment of the disposable data with regard to incomes from grey economics, housing overconsumption, expendi…

Topics: Housing, European Union, Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Bydlení - věc veřejná. Sociální aspekty bydlení v České republice a zemích Evropské unie

The authors of the book „Housing – Res Publica“ describe the development of housing policies in selected developed and transitional societies and they especially provide the description and comparison of different systems of social housing and housing allowances. The authors evaluate the current housing policy tools in the Czech Republic from the point of view of efficiency and effectiveness. Based on international comparison and the conclusions from analyses of state inteventions to housing market in th…

Topics: Housing, European Union, Public Policy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Slovník českých sociologů

Comprehensive biographical, bibliographical and analytical dictionary on 178 key figures of Czech sociology from its beginnings in the 19th century until the present.…

Topics: History of Sociology, Historical Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Nebezpečné známosti. O vztahu sociálních věd a společnosti

This book is about different forms of societal impact of the social sciences. It presents a polemic with a narrow understanding of societal impact of research as practiced by science policy in the Czech Republic (and elsewhere). Three basic theses are proposed and argued. 1. Social sciences’ operation in society is multiple and more significant than usually assumed in public and policy debate, and by the academic community. It entails not only intentional and controlled but also unintentional and collateral …

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Empirická šetření realizovaná v rámci projektu

Organizovaná občanská společnost v České republice po vstupu do Evropské unie

Vliv evropské integrace na politické strany, stranický systém a volební chování v České republice

Zájmové asociace územních samospráv

Proměny reprezentace zájmů po vstupu do Evropské unie

Sociální dialog a jeho budoucnost

Třetí sektor a občanská participace v České republice

Kritická rekonstrukce diskuse: evropská versus česká politika péče

K důvodům nízkého počtu členů českých politických stran

Kdo se bojí zaměstnané matky?

Nové způsoby vládnutí a proměna vztahu veřejné správy a občanů

Rodičovská (je) pro oba rodiče!

Kam směřuje česká společnost v oblasti denní péče o předškolní děti?

Participace a zájmové organizace v České republice

Promarněná šance na změnu: zhodnocení reformy rodičovského příspěvku

Dynamika české společnosti a osudy lidí na přelomu tisíciletí

Práce a péče. Proměny "rodičovské" v České republice a kontext rodinné politiky Evropské unie

Dráhy bydlení

Adresný příspěvek na nájemné

Sociální bydlení

Kdo je kdo v české sociologii a příbuzných oborech

Finanční dostupnost vlastnického a nájemního bydlení v ČR a zemích EU

Bydlení - věc veřejná. Sociální aspekty bydlení v České republice a zemích Evropské unie

Slovník českých sociologů

Nebezpečné známosti. O vztahu sociálních věd a společnosti

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