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Political Leadership in Issue Networks: How Mayors Rule Their World?

This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago. From this comparative perspective, the book examines how to become a mayor in Europe today, the attitudes of these politicians towards administrative and territorial reforms, their notions of democracy, their political prior…

Topics: Elites, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Czech and Polish Understanding of Democracy

Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Women’s Parliamentary Representation in the Czech Republic: Does Preference Voting Matter?

The U-shaped trajectory of women’s parliamentary representation in Central and Eastern Europe over the post-communist era has generated interest among scholars and non-governmental organizations. One particularly interesting case of the recent increase in women’s parliamentary representation can be found in the Czech Republic. After the initial post-communist drop in representation, the proportion of female members of parliament (MPs) hovered around 15 percent for nearly 15 years. However, in the 2010 parl…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Schützova koncepce sociální intersubjektivity

Schutz’s concept of intersubjectivity departs from radical, philosophical analyses of the constitution of the other (alter ego) in my consciousness. Instead, he takes the existence of the other and his or her subjectivity for granted and investigates the intersubjective relations of understanding and action among individuals. The shifting of phenomenological lifeworld theory from philosophy to sociology enables Schütz to study social interaction and order. The article identifies the premises of this concept…

Topics: Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Energy and the public. How societies communicate and decide about energy issues?

As people living in the EU states we take it for granted that a source of electricity will be there whenever we need it. It is a considerably less self-evident matter, how the electricity we rely on is supposed to be produced and distributed. The energy sector stands at a crossroads today and newly emerging options of energy strategies challenge the old ways of doing the business. This module approaches technical students as potential future energy experts, who will need to integrate social or societal aspects…

Topics: Civil Society, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Philosophy and Ethics of Energy Development. What are the most general questions concerning our attitudes to energy technologies?

Energy production and energy facilities and projects are based on scientific knowledge and they require employment of various kinds of technologies. This links energy development with a more general view of natural sciences and technologies and their function in contemporary advanced societies. The impact of technologies on everyday lives of individuals, groups and communities has been growing unprecedentedly in recent decades. It does not matter whether we like it or not, whether we are techno-enthusiasts or …

Topics: Civil Society, Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Generative hermeneutics: proposal for an alliance with critical realism

This article deals with the recent interest shown by critical realists in the study of generative mechanisms in sociology and proposes stronger integration of hermeneutics into this theoretical approach. There are important differences between realism and hermeneutics. While realism strives to overcome the extremes of empiricism and interpretivism with a new version of naturalism, hermeneutics bases its explanations of society on research into meanings. The question is whether underlining these differences is …

Topics: Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Náboženská víra a vztah k historii – analýza existence vzájemného propojení.

The purpose of this text is to attempt to test the connection between people’s religiosity and their relationship to history, and also to provide some new knowledge about this relationship in the Czech Republic. According to theories, it is assumed that religion and history are somehow connected. This is why we are trying to obtain knowledge about the relationship between people’s religiosity and their historical consciousness. This knowledge should shed light on the role of religious memory. We assume tha…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Mají Češi dobrou práci? II.

This text is the second part of the two states, which are trying to disrupt this simplified illustration demonstrating a discrepancy between whether workers evaluate different aspects of working life in their current job as good or bad, and how important are these aspects for them. In the second part, based on original survey instrument SQWL, is mainly shown that almost every Czech worker experiences a sense of discrepancy between needs and their fulfillment in his working life. The study thus points out tha…

Topics: Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Mají Češi dobrou práci? I.

Surveys of the quality of working life in the Czech Republic usually reveal the positive image of reality, in which most workers are satisfied with their job or in which the average satisfaction found in positive values of offered scales. This text is the first part of the two states, which are trying to disrupt this simplified illustration demonstrating a discrepancy between whether workers evaluate different aspects of working life in their current job as good or bad, and how important are these aspects for…

Topics: Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

The Heritage of Traditional Superior Beers from the Visegrad Group Countries.

Preferences in the consumption of food and drinks can change according to eating habits. A consumer test with total 320 participants held in the countries of the Visegrad Group (Visegrad Four) in April 2016 confirmed, however the popularity of regional beers, particularly those with a medium original wort extract (about 11.5 to 12.0 % wt), with medium to high bitterness, high body-fullness, high carbonation and medium alcohol content. Some groups of participants had different preferences but the beers with low…

Topics: Lifestyle

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Cultural planning in two cities of the Czech Republic

According to the Committee on culture of the world association of United Cities and local Governments and its document "Agenda 21 for culture" (2004), culture should be considered as one of the four pillars of sustainable development on an equal footing with the others. This paper will focus on the process of developing cultural planning process in two small and medium sized towns (Louny and Děčín) situated in the northwest part of the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Culture, Public Administration, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Local and regional studies

Životní styl po roce 1989 – proměny trávení volného času ve sféře kulturní participace

Trends in selected indicators of leisure activities in the Czech society since beginning 1990´s using results of CVVM surveys and CZO statistics are outlined. Using data from large surveys from 1994 to 2011 (SOÚ), main factors influencing highbrow culture participation are pursued. It is shown that generally socio-demographic characteristics have very slowly weakened. Cultural and social class homology is still present in the Czech society, and convergence of cultural life in rural areas and urban setting ha…

Topics: Culture, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Local and regional studies

„Kulturní plánování: nová výzva v českém kontextu“

Topics: Culture

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Sociální a institucionální podmíněnost rozvoje kultury a uchování kulturního dědictví v regionálním prostředí a její využití v efektivnější organizaci kulturních aktivit regionu. Redakčně upravená závěrečná zpráva projektu.

The report summarizes the results of the research project Social and Institutional Conditionality of Culture Development and Cultural Heritage Maintaining in the Regional Setting and its Exploitation for Effective Organisation of the Regional Cultural Activities. The main of the project was paid to research on relations between social, economic and political characteristics of the inhabitants and regional cultural distinctiveness research on relations between characteristics of the institutions supporting or o…

Topics: Culture

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Obyvatelé Česka —jejich vztah k půdě a jejich znalosti o půdě

Topics: Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Půda - kompetence a zájem veřejnosti 2017

The survey is focused on the relation of population to soil and on their opinions on selected issues related to soil in the context of the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Volný čas a práce v české a slovenské společnosti

The chapter presents the development of the position of leisure and work in the value system of the population of the Czech and Slovak Republics between 1991 and 2017, then focuses on the selected characteristics of leisure and work in more detail and shows how many hours the inhabitants of the Czech and Slovak Republics spend at work, how their work affects their personal and family life and whether they have enough time for their hobbies and interests. It is based mainly on the data from international survey…

Topics: Work, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Vývoj subjektivní kvality pracovního života v ČR.

The article presents basic results of monitoring the development of subjectively perceived quality of working life in the Czech Republic. It uses data from representative surveys of workers since 2011, which implemented the SQWLi (Subjective Quality of Life Life Index) questionnaire. Firstly, the results show that changes in specific aspects as well as in wider domains of working life occur over time, both in terms of importance and evaluation. They also suggest that overall the gap between the expectations of…

Topics: Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Povaha aspektů pro měření objektivní kvality pracovního života

The paper deals with the analysis of various aspects used to assess the quality of working life. It draws on the data from the representative survey of economically active population of the Czech Republic conducted in 2019. On an empirical basis, it shows that the impact of working-life circumstances on workers is not always universal or unambiguous, that there are at least four basic patterns of effect. Therefore, it may be misleading to assess the level of quality of working life directly on the basis of som…

Topics: Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Is marriage an outdated institution in the Czech Republic?

In the Czech Republic, the context for starting a family has changed dramatically since the fall of communism in late 1989. Fewer Czechs are getting married, and if they do, they do so at a later age. Cohabitation has become a long-term household arrangement in which children are raised. Today, marriage is not the only socially acceptable form of a shared life among Czech couples. In addition, views about cohabitation, marriage and when is the right time for marriage had become more variable.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Jak se mění představy o rodičovství a manželství?

Okolnosti zakládání rodiny v České republice se v posledních pětadvaceti letech výrazně proměnily. Méně lidí uzavírá manželství, a pokud ano, tak ve vyšším věku. Nesezdané soužití se stává stále častěji prostředím, ve kterém jsou vychovávány děti. Manželství již nepředstavuje jedinou společensky přijímanou formu partnerského soužití. Postoje k nesezdanému soužití, manželství a představy o časování vstupu do manželství se rozrůzňují a rozvolňuje se ná…

Topics: Value Orientations, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Studená válka, horký mír: politická ekologie v antropocénu

Topics: Globalization, Climate Change, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Subjective equivalence scales and income poverty in Eastern vs Western European countries

This study uses the intersection approach to estimate Subjective Poverty Lines and implicit subjective equivalence scales for European countries. The subjective poverty lines are derived from the Minimum Income Question included in the 2017 EU–Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data. Subjective equivalence scales differ across the European region, showing lower economies of scale for Eastern European countries. When the estimated subjective equivalence scales are applied to derive the official at-ris…

Topics: Standard of Living

Publication Type: Working Paper

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

František Stárek Čuňas – Martin Valenta: Podzemní symfonie Plastic People

Topics: Culture

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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