The project examines the legal and institutional environment in the Czech Republic, the effect of the most prominent collective actors prior to its accession to the European Union, and changes that are occuring due to the process of Europeanisation. It also explores new challanges resulting from the full integration of the Czech Republic into the EU political and decision-making mechanisms, the creation of mechanisms to influence European and national politics, and the impact of collective actors within a pan-European political arena.
The project also concentrates on analysing the existing institutional structures for interest mediation between individuals, social groups, organizations and the State, and the influence of these structures on the legal system. At the core is interest in the political institutions involved in the process, civil participation, the activities of the most prominent political actors (political parties and interest groups in a wide sense of the world) and the attitudes of these actors toward the studied institutions and each other.
Publikace vydané v rámci projektu (celkem 36, zobrazeno 11 - 20)
The process of the Europeanisation of Czech alien and asylum laws seems to be rather inconsistent. The integration into the EU has brought some changes, which have not yet had a profound affect on the actual nature of immigration. Today immigration to the Czech Republic is often described as a short-term labour migration.
This chapter shows that (1) Czech citizens know most about local and national politics; (2) the distribution of political knowledge in the Czech Republic is biased leading to political inequality; (3) in contrast to other citizens in the EU-25 member states, Czechs have lower than average levels of general knowledge of the Union; (4) level of political knowledge is most strongly determined by citizen motivation followed by access to information, and ability to make sense of politics.
The chapter deals with classical topics of social research methodology in tight connection with separate surveys conducted within the project Politic-legal institutional frame of the Czech republic and its transformations in the context of European Union accession.
The publication analyses the 2004 European Parliament elections from different angles and contains 15 studies. The book is divided into four parts. The first one is devoted to the analysis of positions of voters and parties, the second one to electoral behaviour, mainly the electoral participation and party choice, and the third one to party system. The last part contains studies of European parliament elections in the Czech and Slovak Republics.
The publication analyses the 2004 European Parliament elections from different angles and contains 15 studies. The book is divided into four parts. The first one is devoted to the analysis of positions of voters and parties, the second one to electoral behaviour, mainly the electoral participation and party choice, and the third one to party system. The last part contains studies of European parliament elections in the Czech and Slovak Republics.
This study describes the socio-demographic structure of the membership base of the Christian Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party (KDU-ČSL) and the party’s voters. It is based on a questionnaire survey carried out among the party’s membership base in the middle of 2005. Only part of the survey’s results is used in this study. The membership base is examined according to when member-respondents joined the party and where they reside – Bohemia or Moravia.
The study focuses on minority ethnic groups and populations that have become a recognisable presence in the Czech Republic: Slovaks, Ukrainians, Vietnamese, and Roma. The main objective of the study is to map the situation of these communities or populations in the Czech Republic.
The study focuses on minority ethnic groups and populations that have become a recognisable presence in the Czech Republic: Slovaks, Ukrainians, Vietnamese, and Roma. The main objective of the study is to map the situation of these communities or populations in the Czech Republic.
Based on differentiation between the terms civil society and the third sector the text defines the space of civic participation. The establishment of terminology and theoretical framework appears to be a key component, as the terms civil society and third (non-governmental) sector are often confound. Notwithstanding its long tradition the term, civil society is rather abstract and is today used mainly in theoretical and conceptual context.
This study explores why the third sector is an important agent for promoting civic participation and interest representation. The empirical evidence presented in a first part of the study is organized using an analytical typology based on two key criteria: (a) type of organizational structure evident within specific non-governmental actors and (b) the organisational composition of the entire third sector in the Czech Republic.
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