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V západní Evropě sice volební volatilita za posledních třicet až čtyřicet let významně narostla, skutečnou explozi voličské nestability ovšem spojujeme se zeměmi bývalého komunistického bloku ve východní Evropě. Tato publikace se proto zaměřuje na výzkum volební volatility v 11 postkomunistických státech střední a východní Evropy od roku 1990 do roku 2020. Volební volatilitu studie chápe jako změnu voličské preference ve volbách jdoucích po sobě.

Topic: civil society, elections (and polls)

Type of publication: MonographDepartment: Political Sociology

Income redistribution and changes in redistributive policies are highly contested issues that often have a bearing on societal debate and electoral competition. Using European Social Survey data, we trace trends in public attitudes toward income redistribution in 18 European countries from 2002 to 2019, a time period which included the Great Recession, the 2015 migrant crisis, and an increase in income inequality.

Topic: economics, civil society, politics (and political attitudes)

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Political Sociology, Social Stratification

Looking into new Geopolitical EU from and the EU Enlargement from historical perspective

Topic: economics, energetika, EU, globalisation, legitimacy, politics (and political attitudes)

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Political Sociology

Former socialist states made great progress in the institutional set up and development of civil societies after the fall of their non-democratic regimes. However, the gap in levels of political participation between former socialist states and old democracies remains.

Topic: civil society, politics (and political attitudes), education

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Political Sociology

The new age of party democracy and France's elections 

Topic: EU, politics (and political attitudes), social policy

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Political Sociology

The book examines and investigates the legitimacy of the European Union by acknowledging the importance of variations across actors, institutions, audiences and context. The book chapter examines the role of the national parliaments and party politics in exercising the legitimization strategies in contemporary representative democracies.

Topic: trust/social cohesion, EU, legitimacy, politics (and political attitudes)

Type of publication: Chapter in monographDepartment: Political Sociology

Scholars and practitioners endorse public participation in the decision-making process as enhancing the health of democracy, justice, and effectiveness of policy outcomes. To sustain or even increase the number of participants in the long run, it is crucial to start raising a new politically active generation already during their youth and even early adolescence.

Topic: civil society, politics (and political attitudes)

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Political Sociology

The chapter is part of the book which analyzes the situation of democracy in eleven post-communist EU member states and in East Germany. Over the past 30 years, the Czech Republic has experienced democratization, economic transformation and a redefinition of the nation-state. Today, it has consolidated democratic and market-economy institutions, but these are challenged by the concentration of economic, political and media power in the hands of the incumbent prime minister.

Topic: politics (and political attitudes)

Type of publication: Chapter in monographDepartment: Political Sociology

EU and OECD countries vary considerably in terms of their pre-crisis socioeconomic conditions. Their capacity for political reform also varies widely. These differences are likely to grow as the COVID-19 crisis continues.

Topic: politics (and political attitudes)

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Political Sociology

Topic: politics (and political attitudes), elections (and polls)

Type of publication: Non-peer-reviewed articleDepartment: Political Sociology

On Czech elections and the new logic of doing politics: technopopulism

Topic: EU, politics (and political attitudes)

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Political Sociology

Topic: politics (and political attitudes), elections (and polls)

Type of publication: Non-peer-reviewed articleDepartment: Political Sociology

The country study is a part of a cross-national comparative survey Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) designed to identify and foster successes in effective policymaking in the given time period. The project is supported by Bertelsmann Stiftung. The SGI explores how governments target sustainable development in a time period from November 2016 until November 2017.

Topic: politics (and political attitudes)

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Political Sociology

The Sustainable Governance Indicators is a platform built on a cross-national survey of governance that identifies reform needs in 41 EU and OECD countries. The SGI brings together a broad network of experts and practitioners aiming to understand what works best in sustainable governance. The country study is a part of this cross-national comparative survey.

Topic: politics (and political attitudes)

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Political Sociology

The country study is a part of a cross-national comparative survey Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) designed to identify and foster successes in effective policymaking. The SGI explores how governments target sustainable development in a time period from November 2014 until November 2015.

Topic: politics (and political attitudes)

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Political Sociology

Topic: politics (and political attitudes), elections (and polls)

Type of publication: Non-peer-reviewed articleDepartment: Political Sociology

Welfare State, Inequalities, Politics: The Czech Public’s Attitudes towards the Welfare State between 1996 and 2016

Topic: politics (and political attitudes), social policy

Type of publication: MonographDepartment: Political Sociology

Schools for Democracy: A Waste of Time? Roles, Mechanisms and Perceptions of Civic Education in Czech and German Contexts. This article investigates the role of school-based civic education in the formation of political commitment, motivation and self-efficacy. The article is based on 60 qualitative interviews with university students from the Czech Republic and East and West Germany.

Topic: politics (and political attitudes), education

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Political Sociology

The article empirically tests the theoretical propositions on instrument choice articulated by Linder and Peters and their followers. It examines whether decision makers tend to prefer some policy instruments over others, what the patterns of these preferences are, and how they can be explained.

Topic: politics (and political attitudes), social policy, public policy

Type of publication: Peer-reviewed journal articleDepartment: Political Sociology

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