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Authors: Bischof, S., Decker, A.
Rural governance increasingly involves a broad range of political agents – but whom do rural dwellers consider responsible for creating and maintaining local opportunity structures? Focusing on the issue of places to socialise, our paper investigates resident-municipality relatio...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Vobecká, Jana
Social inequalities have increased in the Czech Republic since the collapse of communism. While this has not led to an intensification of territorial inequalities, yet the analysis of the Prague metropolitan area presented in this chapter shows that pressure toward socio-spatial...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef
In the chapter the author explains endogenous local development of rural communities and how it relates to the concept of community development. The author then examines the various ways in which local development is defined and some Czech empirical studies based on the terms of...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký
In the chapter, the authors present a statistical analysis of the internal development potential of small rural communities or settlements. Drawing on statistical data (census data, election statistics, urban and municipal statistics, demographic statistics, municipal budget stat...
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Authors: Heřmanová, Eva, Illner, Michal, Vajdová, Zdenka
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Authors: Vobecká, Jana, Josef Bernard, Michal Illner
The chapter summarises the results of three qualitative case studies of local government and the development potential of three selected small municipalities: Verměřovice, Vražkov, Roztoky. The case studies are based on interviews with the main actors of public affairs in the com...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Michal Illner, Jana Vobecká, Tomáš Kostelecký
The chapter summarises the main findings of the study. It describes the basic factors which impact the development of small rural communities and the main development actors. Local governments are explained as the dominant development actors on the local level. The chapter points...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký, Michal Illner, Jana Vobecká
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision maki...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision maki...
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Authors: Illner, Michal
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 integratio...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef
The scholarly debate on size-specific features of local democratic systems is inconclusive. Contradictory arguments concerning size effects have been formulated for three normative qualities of democracy – participation, accountability and representation and for system capa...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Michal Illner, Tomáš Kostelecký
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision maki...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka, Daniel Čermák
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 municipali...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka, Daniel Čermák
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 info...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Jana Vobecká
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision maki...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef (ed.)
This study focuses on the development of small rural municipalities, their endogenous developmental potential, and the role of the local authority in setting and achieving development goals. The authors apply a complex approach to examine the issue of local development. Given tha...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision maki...