An international comparative quantitative survey was conducted as a part of the project. The project also examines legal norms and definitions of the excercise of civil and political rights today and historically, describes the fromation of a political identity, explores basic reasons for the passivity of individuals and social groups, and studies basic socio-demographic and attitusinal characteristics of active and passive social groups.
Project publications (total 27, displaying 21 - 27)
According the theory of civil society generalized social trust is enhanced in all sorts of civic activism; according the alternative hypothesis rather non-institutionalized participation based on collective action should be link to interpersonal trust.
The text analyses the turnout in the elections to the European Parliament in the Czech Republic using aggregate level data for districts and individual-level data from a post-election survey. Electoral turnout was increased by religious confession and living in rural areas and decreased by unemployment,lower income and generally low social class. Party identification together with a sense of political efficacy increased the probability that a citizen turned out to vote.
The article reviews sociological concepts and different measurements of social capital.. We offer different kinds of conceptualization, operacionalization and indicators of social capital used in empirical research.
In this article, a comparison is made between economic and identity explanations of preferences toward EU membership in the Czech Republic. This research demonstrates that economics rather then identity is a more powerful explanation of public opinion toward accession. The results presented should not be taken to imply that instrumental rather than ideological or affect based motivations determine general attitudes toward integration.
The main question examined in this book is why are there relatively few Czech women involved in parliamentary politics. Using an empirical analytical approach, this study also investigates public attitudes towards the participation of women in politics in the Czech Republic. In addition, this research also outlines the barriers to women’s entrance to national politics, i.e. individual, social and institutional factors.
The book analyses theoretically as well as empirically the role of different types of trust in democratization in post-communist Europe after the fall of Soviet bloc. The volume represents a multidisciplinary approach: psychology, sociology, political science, history and economics.
It aims to answer the question, whether the national Parliaments loose their democratic functions and are becoming rubber-stampers in the executive-driven process of Europeanization. The institutional level analysis analyzes changes of the formal structures of CEE legislatures and their functioning (changes in committee structure, changes international cooperation, etc.).
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