Main goal of this project is to identify how local communities understand to idea of partnership and participation, to what extent and with what instruments is participation realized and what structures of partnership are created between particular actors.
Project publications (total 29, displaying 11 - 20)
The main objective of this book is to analyse the processes of cooperation, partnership and participation in local public administration. The authors ask: How local actors understand to these processes, what are main assets and shortcomings of mentioned processes? The book contains both theoretical framework and practical examples in studied area of partnership and participation in municipalities and regions.
In this volume of Sociological Studies, readers are presented with the results of a number of studies that examined the participation of citizens in the decision-making process at the local level and in the partnership between public administration (the municipal authorities) and NGOs or even businesses.
The chapter shows the context in which the local politics and different forms of development partnership are executed. It analyses the position of three small and mid-sized municipalities according to their geographic location, its local economic atractiveness and socio-economic structure of its inhabitants. It shows that all three of them are important local employment centre with a suburban belt around them.
The chapter is based on data of surveys conducted between 1998 and 2008 in Blatná, Český Krumlov and Velké Meziříčí. The chapter is focused on the relation of the respondents to public affairs, their sense of informedness, their opinion about the influence of selected institutions and people on the decision-making of important town issues, satisfaction of citizens with performance of town leadership, and on how the respondents acquire information about events in their town.
Main objective of this chapter is to describe how the inhabitants of three small towns in the Czech Republic (Blatná, Český Krumlov and Velké Meziříčí) express their interest for participation in local government.
Participation and cooperation are conceptions that often occur in the local public service more frequently. Individual and institutional actors’ interest is crucial aspect of participative and cooperative processes in the locality. Knowledge – sufficiency of information of public affairs– is basic condition for this interest. In the process of acquiring this knowledge both individual motivation to be informed and informational strategy of the institution are important.
The chapter deals with a comparison of theoretical claims on processual features of community care planning and the reality of their application in praxis. The participative features of the process are accentuated in the chapter. The author shows that there exist some institutional specifics in the social care system in the Czech Republic which make the implementation of participatory ideals difficult.
The objective of this study is to describe the basic discourse of cooperation, participation, and partnership in terms of how it is defined in the process of democratic administration in the Czech Republic and its regions. This basic discourse is determined from a legislative perspective by the laws in effect within the country, but it is also shaped by the results of current research in the Czech social sciences and studies in public administration, and even by the media.
The chapter maps the main forms of legal regulation of cooperation between municipalities, of their partnership with private subjects and of participation of citizens in local government that are currently available in Czech law.
The chapter summarizes the results of contemporary social research on the processes of participation and partnership at local level in the Czech republic. The papers are classified according to their theoretical focus and the empirical field of interest.
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