scholarly journals Ministerial staff of the Czech Republic 25 years after the ‘Velvet Revolution’

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
František Ochrana ◽  
Michal Plaček ◽  
Michal Křápek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Residual Effects ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Velvet Revolution

The article analyses ministerial staff of the Czech Republic 25 years after the Velvet Revolution. It characterizes ministerial employees during the period of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia (1948–1989) and following the anti-communist coup. In order to analyse the present-day situation, it uses our own survey of the staff working at ministries in the Czech Republic. Within the survey (conducted April–June 2013) all 14 ministries of the Czech Republic were contacted. In total, 1351 respondents (ministerial employees of the Czech Republic) participated in the survey. The research aimed to examine the gender structure, age, education, acquired experience and performed activities of ministerial staff. The results of the research also signal that in some areas (e.g. within the so-called systematized employment positions and the prescribed level of education at some ministries) the residual effects of the previous regime still manifest themselves. The results of this research may be an inspiration for similar research projects in other countries of the former Soviet bloc.

Romani literary endeavours in the Czech Republic: A historical survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
KAROLÍNA RYVOLOVÁ
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Velvet Revolution

This article offers a survey of writing by the Roma in former Czechoslovakia and current Czech Republic over a span of six decades. It traces the beginnings of Romani literature in two Romani journals published by the Union of Gypsies-Roma between 1969 and 1973, reveals some covert centres of activity in the relative silence of the Normalization years of the 1970s and 1980s, and highlights the milestones of development following the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Bringing developments up to present day, the essay shows the Czech Romani literary field as vibrant and ambitious and full of promise.

Czech Republic

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Bazyler ◽  
Kathryn Lee Boyd ◽  
Kristen L. Nelson ◽  
Rajika L. Shah
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
Communal Property ◽  
Property Transfers ◽  
Anti Jewish ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Independent Country

During World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the territory comprising the modern-day Czech Republic (previously part of the independent country of Czechoslovakia), creating the Protectorate of Moravia and Bohemia. All Jews in the Protectorate became subject to German jurisdiction and anti-Jewish laws, including German laws on expropriation of Jewish property. Immediately after the war, Czechoslovakia enacted legislation invalidating property transfers made during Nazi occupation. The measures were short-lived, however, because the country fell under Communist rule that resulted in a second wave of confiscations from all persons. It was not until after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 that new immovable property restitution laws were enacted for private and communal property. The Czech Republic endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.

Waste Building Materials to Roads in Czech Republic

2016 ◽  
Vol 832 ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Dušan Stehlík ◽  
Petr Hyzl ◽  
Michal Varaus
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Building Material ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Recycled Aggregate ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Granular Mixtures

Using waste building materials in pavements is one of the goals of transportation sustainable development in the Czech Republic. As part of research projects of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, a project was devised, which focused on maximal utilization of waste building materials when constructing pavements. After the initial verification of properties of the recycled aggregate (especially concrete waste building material), the research focus shifted towards the utilization of these waste building materials in cement bound granular mixtures.

Motherhood and Opportunities for Activism Before and After the Czech Velvet Revolution

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Shriver ◽  
Alison Adams ◽  
Rachel Einwohner
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Temporal Changes ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Over Time

Extant social movement research emphasizes the nexus of gender and opportunity structures in a variety of contexts, yet little work has examined how gender mediates the effects of structural opportunities on activism over time. We advance the existing literature by examining environmental activism framed around motherhood in pre- and post-revolutionary Czech Republic. Our analysis draws from rich qualitative data, collected over a ten-year span, which highlight temporal changes in mother activism in these two distinct eras. Contrary to expectation, gendered opportunities for mother activists expanded during the repressive era of the communist regime and contracted following the 1989 velvet revolution. We show how and why these dynamics occurred, and conclude by discussing implications for future social movement research on gender and gendered opportunities.

Finanční stabilita rozpočtů obcí Jihočeského kraje v kontextu meziobecní spolupráce

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Dušek
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Graphical Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
The South ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Economic Background

In recent years, several research projects on barriers to inter-municipal cooperation have been implemented in the Czech Republic and abroad. However, the research results reflect the respective local and regional specificities and the results and conclusions are therefore diametrically different depending on the specific conditions in the country. The main goal of the paper is to analyse uneven socio-economic development of the municipalities in the South Bohemian Region on the example of the development of cooperation among the municipalities of the South Bohemian Region in relation to the economic background of the municipalities. When assessing the budget-related aspects of the municipality, it is not possible to prefer and take into account only the revenue side, it is also necessary to emphasize the expenditure side. In our case, we use what is called the self-financing rate (the share of own revenues in the current expenditures of the municipality). There is a hypothesis that municipalities with a higher rate of self-financing tend to get less involved in cooperation of municipalities, i.e. the higher the rate of self-financing, the lower the level of cooperation of municipalities. Economically stronger municipalities have no reason/interest to unite their forces with other entities in order to solve problems of regional development. The theoretical part of the work deals with searching for knowledge related to the issue of regional development and cooperation of municipalities and introduces individual methods, which are then applied as part of the analysis of municipalities. The author researched cooperation of municipalities between 2007 and 2020. However, in spite of the results of the graphical analysis, the above-mentioned hypothesis was not confirmed.

The Effects of Agricultural Conservation Practices on the Local Water Cycle in conditions of the Czech Republic Modeled by SWAT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Noreika ◽  
Tailin Li ◽  
David Zumr ◽  
Josef krása ◽  
Tomáš Dostál
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Agricultural Conservation ◽  
Farm Scale

<p>The Czech Republic is an intensely agricultural country. Agricultural intensification of the Czech Republic started in the 1970s during the Communist regime wherein large monotonous agricultural fields, subsurface tile drainage systems, and artificially straightened streams were incorporated across the landscape. Since 1989 (the end of the Communist era), agricultural land and management has been privatized and has experienced shifts from centrally planned crop rotations to those that are economically-driven. On the other hand, nowadays many Czech farmers are beginning to explore various agricultural conservation practices which can have as significant of an impact as land use changes. The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of various agricultural conservation practices (contour tillage, reduced tillage, and grass strip addition) and decreasing field sizes at the farm scale in a representative agricultural basin in the Czech Republic. We conducted scenario analysis using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to determine the effects of these measures on basin water balance and soil erosion. Through SWAT we were able to determine which measures are most effective when combined at the farm-scale.</p><p>Acknowledgment: The presented research has been performed within project H2020 No. 773903 Shui, focused on water scarcity in European and Chinese cropping systems and the Grant Agency of Czech Technical University in Prague, No. SGS20/156/OHK1/3T/11.</p>

The Music Protest in the Czech Republic after 1989. Jaroslav Hutka’s „Udavačz Těšína” and the discourse on post-Velvet Revolution bardic art

Tekstualia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (53) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Tatiana Witkowska
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
The Press ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
The Relationship

The article analyses the press debate regarding Jaroslav Hutka’s song Udavač z Těšína, with a focus on both the objections against the author as well as Hutka’s defence. The arguments articulated in this debate function on two main levels: a formal and a personal level, the latter shedding light not only on the author’s motivations but also on his audience’s outlook. The analysis traces the shifts within the post-communist bardic discourse in the Czech Republic and the evolution of the relationship between singer-songwriters and the audience with respect to the perception and interpretation of the new post-communist reality as well as their own lives.

scholarly journals Educational mismatch in the Czech Labour Market

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-120
Author(s):  
Martina Mysíková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Education Level ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Educational Mismatch ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Measurement Approach

Abstract Educational mismatch in labour markets is a phenomenon that has been widely analysed, mainly with respect to rising concerns about a possible oversupply of graduates. Like most European countries, the Czech Republic has experienced a boom in tertiary education in the last decade. The incidence and determinants of over- and undereducation vary substantially depending both on the mismatch measurement approach and the data source applied. Educational mismatch is also reflected in wage levels: overeducated workers have lower wages and undereducated workers have higher wages than workers with the same education whose jobs match their education level. Second, overeducated workers earn more and undereducated workers earn less than their co-workers with exactly the required level of education. The effects are qualitatively the same regardless of the data source and measurement approach applied, but their sizes differ slightly.

scholarly journals Possibilities of security measures in museums in the czech republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 03010
Author(s):  
Marek Tomastik ◽  
Katerina Vichova ◽  
Eva Hoke ◽  
Erik Pfeffer
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Current State ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Better Than

The threat of theft of works of art, antiques and books which are always being stolen from museums, galleries and archives in the Czech Republic, as well as abroad, remains present. Given the existence of the current stolen objects markets and the fact that artefacts keep their value which grows in time, theft will continue into the future. Thus, the security of museum collections and buildings is a pressing issue. It is, therefore, important to seek modern, secure and cheap solutions for the smaller museums in the Czech Republic. This paper describes the current state of security in the Czech Republic and proposes appropriate solutions of the problem of security in museums and galleries. The situation is very critical in some museum areas. Historic heritage is not sufficiently protected. The present study solves the analysis of the state of the historical heritage at present. The protection of the historical heritage is better than the Velvet Revolution. The article deals with the protection of monuments currently, analyzes the current security situation in museums in the Czech Republic and suggests a solution that would improve the future security of artefacts. Faculty of Logistics and Crisis Management prepares a workplace to help museums work with risks.

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