Completed project

Local governments in small municipalities and their endogenous development potential

Project duration: 
2009 - 2011

The project focuses on the possibilities and limits of local governments in small municipalities in the Czech Republic (less than 2000 inhabitants) to influence the situation in the community and to make use of its endogenous development potentials.

The research team analyses diverse relationships between formal and informal features of local governments and the development potentials of municipalities. The analysis is based on on qualitative and quantitative data.

Principal investigator: 
Grant agency: 
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)

Project publications (total 15, displaying 1 - 10)

Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký, Michal Illner, Jana Vobecká

The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision making processes. At the same time, they deal with the problem of local development potentials and development opportunities and deficiencies of rural communities.

Topic:
urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), regions, public administration
Department:
Local and regional studies
Type of publication:
Monograph
Bernard, Josef

The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision making processes. At the same time, they deal with the problem of local development potentials and development opportunities and deficiencies of rural communities.

Topic:
urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), public administration
Department:
Local and regional studies
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph
Bernard, Josef, Michal Illner, Tomáš Kostelecký

The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision making processes. At the same time, they deal with the problem of local development potentials and development opportunities and deficiencies of rural communities.

Topic:
urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), public administration
Department:
Local and regional studies
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph
Bernard, Josef, Jana Vobecká

The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision making processes. At the same time, they deal with the problem of local development potentials and development opportunities and deficiencies of rural communities.

Topic:
urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), public administration
Department:
Local and regional studies
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph
Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký

The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision making processes. At the same time, they deal with the problem of local development potentials and development opportunities and deficiencies of rural communities.

Topic:
urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), public administration
Department:
Local and regional studies
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph
Bernard, Josef (ed.)

This study focuses on the development of small rural municipalities, their endogenous developmental potential, and the role of the local authority in setting and achieving development goals. The authors apply a complex approach to examine the issue of local development.

Topic:
urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), public administration
Department:
Local and regional studies
Type of publication:
Monograph
Bernard, Josef

In the chapter the author explains endogenous local development of rural communities and how it relates to the concept of community development. The author then examines the various ways in which local development is defined and some Czech empirical studies based on the terms of those definitions. At the end of the chapter the author presents a community development model that includes external and endogenous development potentials.

Topic:
urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), public administration
Department:
Local and regional studies
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph
Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký

In the chapter, the authors present a statistical analysis of the internal development potential of small rural communities or settlements.

Topic:
urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), public administration
Department:
Local and regional studies
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph
Štych, Přemysl, Tomáš Hudeček, Josef Bernard

The chapter forms a methodological supplement to the study. The authors describe geoinformation systems and their possible uses in various types of social analyses, especially analyses of local development. The authors focus on the use of geoinformation systems in the statistical analyses contained in the second chapter of the study – calculating the traffic accessibility of municipalities and identifying individual settlements.

Topic:
urban and rural studies
Department:
Local and regional studies
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph
Vobecká, Jana, Josef Bernard, Michal Illner

The chapter summarises the results of three qualitative case studies of local government and the development potential of three selected small municipalities: Verměřovice, Vražkov, Roztoky. The case studies are based on interviews with the main actors of public affairs in the communites and on participant observation of the meetings of the local council. The studies document the dominant role of the mayor as development actor.

Topic:
urban and rural studies, civil society, politics (and political attitudes), public administration
Department:
Local and regional studies
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph

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