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This article reports on a new empirical study evaluating crime concentration at places in a postsocialist city. We use principles of the law of crime concentration at places and the Cambridge Crime Harm Index to measure crime count and crime harm concentration at the level of street segments. The research found differences between crime concentration in a post-socialist city and crime concentration reported by recent studies from US or UK cities.
The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the equivalence scale used to transform household income to an equivalent for individuals.
Výzkum na téma Násilí na ženách v souvislosti s COVID-19 vznikl jako reakce na nastalou pandemickou situaci v roce 2020. Díky tomu, že obě výzkumnice byly díky své předchozí činnosti v pravidelném kontaktu s nestátními neziskovými organizacemi, které se v oblasti domácího násilí pohybují – konkrétně Acorus, ROSA a proFem – se k nim záhy po začátku pandemie v roce 2020 dostaly informace o tom, jak nesourodé jsou informace o situaci uvnitř systému pomoci obětem domácího násilí.
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.
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.
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.
Kniha vztahuje kutilství k obecnějším otázkám o současné společnosti, jejím vývoji a proměně a otevírá tak kutilství jako téma a terén, skrze který je možné tyto otázky nově nahlížet a zkoumat. Ukazuje, v čem a proč je kutilství zajímavé (nejen) pro společenskou vědu nikoli samo o sobě, ale jako prostředek, skrze který je možné lépe porozumět palčivým problémům současnosti.
In this article we discuss multi-level career paths of Czech politicians from 2000 to 2017. First, we describe typical career movements between policy levels, differentiating between ascending and descending paths. Subsequently, we focus on ascending paths targeting at the national level which are the most common way how to enter the Parliament.
This article focuses on the topic of the young adult’s cleft habitus influenced by a housing affordability crisis in the Czech Republic and examines how this situation affects the young adult’s relation to the imagination of a temporally structured life course and synchronization of life spheres (housing, family, and work). This article is based on qualitative in-depth interviews conducted in the four cities most affected by the house and rent price increase.
Self-help housing has been proposed as a solution to provide qualitatively adequate and affordable housing not only nowadays, but also during the late state socialism in the 1970s and 1980s in the for- mer Czechoslovakia. In this article, we focus on how the self-help housing provision was during that era linked with the responsibilisation of households, a technique of governance usually associated with neoliberal regimes.
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