One key consequence of give-away privatizations was that public housing in most post-socialist states declined within a few years to a residual share of total housing market. Despite the large differences in public/social housing policies introduced after 1995, this article will show that that almost all new social housing measures proved to be unsustainable, ineffective and often had the unintended consequence of further enhancing homeownership tenure in post-socialist housing systems.
Topic: housing
In this discussion paper series, the Prague SECONIMICS team intends toallow the broader academic community to take part in an on-goingdiscussion about the risks and threats, as well as trade-offs, betweenthemselves and security. This research focus stems from the fact thatuntil now, social scientists have primarily studied threats and risksthrough the perspective of social psychology, conducting so-called “risk
Topic: crime, media, politics (and political attitudes)
Scholars have long argued that political participation is determined by institutional context.Within the voter turnout literature the impact of various institutional structures has beendemonstrated in numerous studies.
Topic: civil society, politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: media
Topic: EU
Topic: EU, politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: elections (and polls)
Academic mobility is usually perceived and discussed as a positive phenomenon — as a prerequisite for building a competitive and successful economy and quality science. Academic mobility has now become essential to building a successful academic career in many research domains. On the policy level the negative impact of academic mobility on researchers’ lives and especially women’s is usually overlooked and marginalized.
Topic: gender, sociology of science
Research on thesocio-spatial analysis of crime reaches deep into the past. However, one of the first major sociological theories that influenced the scientific field of criminology is the social disorganization theory of Shaw and McKay, who studied the impact of structural factors on neighborhood crime in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Topic: crime
In the years 2002 to 2012, Czech society experienced a series of events and changes. Similar events and changes, however, also took place in other European countries. State and development of attitudes, values and behaviour of populations of European countries in connection with these events and changes is explored by the European Social Survey research project.
Topic: trust/social cohesion, economics, crime, care, politics (and political attitudes), work, sociological data, age and ageing, health
Topic: religion and religiosity
This paper seeks to introduce readers to a recent trend in migration research. Amenity migration is an emerging concept that focuses on ‘better-environment-seeking’ migration. Firstly, we discuss the basis of amenity migration, its primary driving forces and its consequences on affected areas. Secondly, we present a case study of amenity migration in Czechia, focused on research from the Prachatice region.
Topic: housing, urban and rural studies, migration and mobility, regions, consumption
Topic: identity, regions
Topic: history of sociology
Topic: history of sociology
This study focuses on comparison of factors of job satisfaction within Europe. The rare comparative papers on this subject commonly compare Western Europe (WE) and Eastern Europe (EE) by pooling data on the two regions. By contrast, this analysis takes into account dis/similarities within each of the two regions. We use an ordered probit regression model based on European Social Survey 2010 and test the homogeneity of the two WE and EE regions.
Topic: economics, work
Topic: historical sociology
Topic: economics, globalisation, regions
The aim of the article is to critically reassess relation between moral and economy of agents from the poorest class. The relational concept of the poorest class designates here homeless, drug-users, and some poor individuals generally that all have common particular social practices on the one hand and a position within of the social space on the other hand.
Topic: housing, human relations, social capital, social inequalities
The chapter analyses the development of political cleavages in post-communist Czech Republic, includes detailed examination of elections, the formation of governments, electoral systems and constitutional arrangements. Special attention is paid to development of party system, and existing and emerging political structures.
Topic: politics (and political attitudes)
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