Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3)

Incumbency in Multi-Level Political Systems and Recruitment Advantage: The Case of the Czech Regional Assemblies

Josef Bernard, Jiří Šafr

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 267-292 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.259  

The article addresses the differential recruitment advantages of individual candidates in regional assembly elections. The authors argue that in a multi-level polity different types of incumbency exist that are reflected in the recruitment process, favour officeholders over newcomers, and at the same time differentiate the accessibility of regional offices for officeholders at various system levels. Moreover, it is argued that the effect of multi-level incumbency can be well observed even in proportional electoral systems. Empirically, the impact of incumbency on a candidate's chances to succeed in the recruitment process and to obtain preferential...

Social Determinants of Suicides in the Czech Republic between 1995 and 2010

Tomáš Katrňák, Lucia Tyrychtrová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 293-320 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.260  

The text is concerned with suicides in the Czech Republic. It seeks to determine which social variables, and to what extent, have affected suicidal behaviour since 1989. The authors draw on Durkheim's theory that society prevents suicidal tendencies. They formulate six hypotheses to account for the effects of social variables (year, sex, age, education, and marital status) on suicide rates, which they test using data from 1995 to 2010. Their findings show that time weakens the odds for committing suicides. Regardless of the time, women and people who are young, more educated, and living in a marriage face the lowest risk of suicide. That marriage works...

Civic Participation and Gender Beliefs: An Analysis of 46 Countries

Malina Voicu, Bogdan Voicu

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 321-346 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.261  

Gender equality has progressed a great deal in recent decades in response to modernisation, industrialisation, and the generally rising level of education. A transformation in gender beliefs has accompanied the progress on gender equality and beliefs about gender roles have mainly changed in countries in North America and Europe, while in Muslim and Asian countries they have remained the same. The analysis in this article focuses on civic participation and investigates its relation to equalitarian gender beliefs. Multi-level regression models and data from World Values Survey (WVS) collected from 46 countries in 2005 allow depicting the relationships....

Keeping Marketisation at Bay: The Quality of Academic Worklife in Czech Universities

Kateřina Zábrodská, Jiří Mudrák, Petr Květon, Marek Blatný, Kateřina Machovcová, Iva Šolcová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 347-374 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.262  

This study examines quality of academic worklife in Czech public universities to assess the extent to which the global drive towards marketisation in higher education has affected Czech academic staff. A total of 2229 academics (men = 57.1%) completed a survey measuring their job satisfaction, job stress, and work environment perceptions. Findings revealed high levels of overall job satisfaction (83.6% satisfied with their jobs) and relatively low levels of stress (13.7% regularly stressed). Most academics reported positive features of their work environment including autonomy and quality, role clarity, influence over academic work, and a strong social...

Where Are The Effects of Family Structure? The Educational Level, Current Partnership and Income Level of the Czech Adult Population Socialised in Single-Parent Families

Petr Fučík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 375-402 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.263  

Socialisation in a single-parent family has been associated with negative consequences both in previous research and popular discourse. This article investigates whether this association may be different in a society with a high rate of divorce and extramarital fertility. Using data from the Czech contribution to the EU-SILC survey, it tests hypotheses concerning the difference between the current situation of adults who grew up in single-parent families and those who were raised in intact families. We look for the influence of socialisation on single-parent families in three areas-educational attainment, current partnership situation, and current...

Sociological Imagination for Future ESA Conferences

Tereza Stöckelová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 403-404  

'Conference Business' as Usual? An Open Letter to the ESA

Tomáš Bek, Petr Kubala, Terezie Lokšová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 405-408  

A Reaction to the Open Letter to the ESA from the Chair of the Local Organisational Committee

Tomáš Kostelecký

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 409-415  

Some Thoughts on the Open Letter

Tiziana Nazio

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 416-422  

The Politics of the Academic Agora

Mark Featherstone

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 423-427  

An Open Letter to the ESA: A Response

Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 428-431  

Business as Usual and More: A Response to Tomáš Bek, Petr Kubala and Terezie Lokšová and a Modest Proposal

John Holmwood

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 432-434  

The European Sociology We Want

Frank Welz

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 435-440  

Enlisting the ESA-Towards Better Conferences

Laura Horn

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 441-446  

Claus Offe: Europe Entrapped

Romana Careja

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 451-452  

Daniel Beland and Klaus Petersen (eds.): Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

Sergiu Delcea

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 453-455  

Marius B. Busemeyer: Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics and the Political Economy of Education Reforms in Western Welfare States

Liudvika Leišytė

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 456-457  

Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck (eds.): Politics in the Age of Austerity

Luis Ernesto Taborda Moreno

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 458-460  

Carsten Jensen: The Right and the Welfare State

Alexandre Afonso

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 461-463  

Marek Rymsza (ed.): Toward Active Welfare. The Development of Social Work and Community Work in Poland and Europe

Tomáš Sirovátka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 464-467  

Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik (eds.): Twenty Years after Communism: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration

Nikolina Židek, Carmen González-Enríquez

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 468-469  

Jelena Ĉvorović: The Roma: A Balkan Underclass

Natalie Forster

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 470  

'Mobility and Migration: A Crisis for Europe's Citizens?': A Workshop Held on 21-23 January 2016, Bologna, Italy

Ludmiła Władyniak

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(3): 447-450