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From Victimhood to Citizenship

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The three essays we are presenting here for discussion may prove contentious in some readers’ eyes. they trigger a fundamental discussion on the self-image of the roma activists, and the goals they should be pursuing in the future. they sow seeds of doubt as to whether the roma movement is on the right track, and they are doing this, moreover, at a time when the eu commission, the eu member states are tasked with developing action plans for roma inclusion. nicolae Gheorghe welcomes the development options created by the eu’s initiative. he writes: ‘For the first time in history, roma have prospects of reflecting and playing an active part in bringing about social change. the role of roma opinion-makers is to suggest new approaches, focusing on integration rather than on being victims.’ But then, in the course of his argument, he calls for a moratorium: no more payments from the eu before a new strategy has emerged – an ethically grounded action scenario

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Painful adaptation. The social consequences of the crisis in Russia

Author(s): Jan Strzelecki / Language(s): English

The Russian economy has experienced what has proven to be the most painful crisis for society since Vladimir Putin became President of the Russian Federation for the first time. The crisis has worsened the financial situation of all classes of Russian society due to the high inflation rate and a decrease in real wages. It has severely impacted the standards of living of the most politically active segments of the middle class residing in big cities. For a large portion of society the crisis implies a permanent degradation and the need to focus on physical survival in a situation of poverty and extreme poverty. Crisis caused the decline in the social mood, what sometimes triggers isolated economically-motivated protests. Most of the time, society chooses not to manifest its discontent but to adapt to the new reality by focusing on individual survival strategies and limiting consumption. The government’s tactic aimed at minimising the likelihood of further protests mainly involves stepping up the repressive nature of the system and bolstering official propaganda. This is contributing to a progressing atomisation of society and hampering society’s self-organisation.

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Řízení zpětných toků

Author(s): Radoslav Škapa,Alena Klapalová / Language(s): Czech

Reverse flows include several types of flows – raw, material, product, packaging, information, and financial – and therefore they pose a source of different types of values. Reverse flow management includes all activities related to the reverse flows including reverse logistics, effective control of inputs and efforts to reduce reverse flows. The implementation of reverse flowstakes place through internal processes in an enterprise but a substantial part of them occurs within the Supply Chain Management. Interest in reverse flows from practitioners and theorists increased in the 1980s; yet in many models and methods that emerged just in the 1980s and which aim to ensure success (see, e.g., process management models, EFQM, Balanced Score card, etc.) reverse flows were omitted and this situation continues partly until today. Nevertheless, the management of reverse flows is currently considered to be one of the key supply chain management competencies. For some industries reverse flows may even be critical to their competitiveness and success. The perception of the importance and impact of reverse flows on the management and the existence of companies, however, varies considerably among managers. The monograph presents a part of the results of the authors’ empirical research conducted for several years, focused on the attitude of Czech companies to reverse flow management in terms of the perception of a potential value. In addition, it presents a compilation of current knowledge in the field of reverse flow management and value creation within these flows. These findings surely cannot be considered to be a comprehensive summary of the theories, concepts, definitions, etc., as these issues are continuously evolving and involve multiple aspects of management of companies and organizations (including non-profit ones).

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Efektivnost v systému zpětných toků

Author(s): Alena Klapalová,Michal Krčál,Radoslav Škapa / Language(s): Czech

This book deals with reverse logistics from the economical point of view. Various types of losses occurring in this business system can diminish the performance of the system, and thus the competitiveness of the whole company. These losses are the main focus of this book. By “losses”, we refer to the effectiveness- and efficiency-related problems. The issue of performance of reverse logistics (especially the barrier and bottle neck identification) has already been addressed in two publications Management of reverse flows, and Specifics of reverse flows management. Effectiveness in reverse flows systems aims to define the research problems of bottle necks restraining the value recovery from reverse flows. Main chapters are organized as follows: Chapter 2 deals with performance tracking of reverse logistics, Chapter 3 elaborates on outsourcing and Chapter 4 deals with the informational systems supporting reverse flows. All research areas combine theoretical knowledge obtained by literature research with empirical findings. Both quantitative study among representatives of the enterprises operating in the Czech Republic, and one enterprise case study were used.

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Mothers – Grandmothers – Daughters? Reconciling Labour Market Integration with Care Responsibilities in Brno

Author(s): Steven Saxonberg,Martina Kampichler,Miroslava Janoušková / Language(s): English

This book presents a case study of how social policies influence women in the labour market in the Czech municipality of Brno. This study is based on research that we conducted as part of the EU financed project “Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion,” which has been shortened to the acronym FLOWS. The project’s goal was to analyze “how local welfare provision affects the labour market participation of women, and how female employment in turn affects the life course (of women and men), structures of inequality, social cohesion and hence the sustainability of the European social model” (FLOWS 2010: A1: 3).

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České strany a jejich kandidáti: Případ voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny v roce 2010

Author(s): Peter Spáč / Language(s): Czech

Elections constitute a central component of all democratic political systems. Conventionally, the institute of elections is seen is an instrument of conferring and renewing political legitimacy of state officials, as well as a vehicle for expressing citizens’ preferences regarding the future of their country or some other territorial entity. Their particular shape is specified by electoral systems which translate the voters’ political will into the make-up of the elected body (typically parliaments). On the face of it, such a definition emphasises the “technical” aspect of distributing seats among successful parties; we cannot however ignore the fact that elections have an important personal dimension. Their point is always also to select particular people to elected offices and functions.So understood, elections simultaneously represent the outcome of a distinct organisational process that temporally precedes them. Selection of candidates constitutes an inseparable part of the pre-election period, together with formulating election programmes, planning the election campaign and raising funds for it. As a topic of scholarly research in political science, candidate selection (also preselection) has been gradually gaining ground, and both theoretical and empirical resources have been continually expanded. However, whereas international trends are apparent in this regard, the Czech political-scientific community still treats preselection as a topic of secondary importance. This fact underlines the relevance of the present book, which aims to provide an in-depth inquiry into this issue in the Czech context.

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Krajské volby 2012

Author(s): Stanislav Balík,Andrea Smolková,Monika Dvořáková,Michal Pink,Vít Šimral,Alena Macková,Miloš Gregor,Otto Eibl,Michal Nový,Vlastimil Havlík,Petr Voda,Petr Gongala,Kamil Gregor,Lenka Hrbková / Language(s): Czech

Regional (Kraj) elections in 2012, unlike the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2010 or 2013, certainly did not indicate a reversal in Czech politics. On the other hand, 2012’s elections were hardly boring, uninteresting affairs, where everything ran according to plan. Seen from the perspective of second-order elections theory, we had an opportunity to confirm that voters punished parties in the national government and rewarded the opposition, depending on the issues that dominated – whether it was for inappropriate reasons, such as salient, but national-level topics, or for appropriate, but boring, regional reasons. These and the entire gamut of other topics may be understood by arange of reasons. Superficially, through blanket “impressionism“, by way of individual independent case studies, or by pursuing a complex and deeper understanding of causes and effects. Using the format of this monograph focused on a single election (though necessarily with comparisons to previous ones) allows the topic to be investigated with the latter method. This is exactly what the authors of this book have attempted. The structure of the book corresponds to the logic of the electoral process, combining descriptive as well as interpretive and analytical methods.

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Dopady vybraných veřejných politik na regionální rozvoj v České a Slovenské republice: Vědecký sborník

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak,Czech

The proceedings include partial results from the second year of the research in both fields, i.e. the public sector and the financial sector. The results were presented at a seminar held in Šlapanice on 24 and 25th November 2011. Compared to the last proceedings, in which the main topic was the public sector, this year’s outputs focused on the financial sector.

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Destinační management jako nástroj regionální politiky cestovního ruchu

Author(s): Andrea Holešinská / Language(s): Czech

The monograph deals with the theoretical-methodological basis of destination management as a specific form of managing that is applied in the field of tourism. The monograph is based on the premise that tourism is a major factor in regional development and therefore it covers the tourism policy issue concerning the institutional instrument of regional tourism policy which is able to provide effective tourism development in a region. Besides the theoretical base, the monograph presents results of several researches that prove the application of destination management into practice. Foreign experience in destination management is analyzed and is used as a comparison to the conditions in the Czech Republic.

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Přímé a nepřímé financování soukromých neziskových organizací z veřejných rozpočtů České republiky v letech 2008 až 2013

Author(s): Zuzana Prouzová / Language(s): Czech

The economic power of non-governmental and non-profit organizations (NGO-NPOs), whether considering the broader or narrower definition of the private non-profit sector, is not very large in comparison with other sectors. The distinguishing characteristic of the non-profit sector is that it exists in areas where common interest is promoted and public services are provided. These areas are less intensive in terms of financial capital, although they depend on human capital. The significance of NPOs lies in activating human capital, generating free voluntary work, creating free non-market production, and producing goods for economically insignificant prices. In 2008–2013, the definition of non-profit organizations developed by the Czech Statistical Office’s Satellite Account of Non profit Institutions (SÚNI) included 13 legal forms. There were 6 legal forms for NGO-NPOs (of which three forms were a mere selection. There were 84,000–127,000 organisations in the Czech Republic in total) for the years 2008–2013. In 2008, there were 66,000 NGO-NPOs. The share of non-profit organizations in GDP (calculated by means of the expenditure method) was 1.6%, in 2008. In 2008–2013, 100,000–105,000 people (full time equivalent) worked for non-profit organisations, i.e. the share in the employment rate was 1.96–2.09 %. Volunteering also played an important role (25,000–27,000 volunteers, full time equivalent).

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Tři archetypy evropské sociální politiky

Author(s): František Svoboda / Language(s): Czech

A brief look into an etymological dictionary will show that the term economics is indirectly derived from the word nemein, meaning distribute, allot, apportion one‘s due. This implication is connected with the name of the Greek goddess of vengeance, Nemesis. The word economics therefore includes more than just a concern for economy: italso embodies the desire for justice.With respect to justice, the book does not consider its commutative form, but rather the distributive branch, where the examined problem consists in the use of private property for philanthropic and charitable purposes as opposed to the selfishness of one’s own benefit. In its final shape, the text subsumes three institutions of charity, or three universal patterns of behavior transmitted by education and culture, whose long line of development within European civilization can be followed from today’s complex system of social policies back to the realizations adopted in ancient Greece and Rome, obviously not excluding the essential intermezzo of medieval Christianity. The three institutions of charity are as follows: a gift (or alms), work (or an offer of sustenance), and loan. Eventhough specific activities of charitable organizations have been periodically transformed along with changes within the cultural and economic milieu, the patterns of human behavior remained the same.

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Bosna v chorvatských národně-integračních ideologiích 19. století

Author(s): Petr Stehlík / Language(s): Czech

The work comprehensively characterizes and assesses the status and role of Bosnia in Croatian national integration ideologies, which greatly contributed to the formation of modern Croatian nation in the 19th century (Illyrism, Yugoslavism, “Pravaštvo“). The text is written from a historical perspective and based on the comparative analysis of political and literary sources of the time. Although Bosnia has been a subject of interest for practically all generations of Croatian politicians, no similar work has been written so far, describing the transformations and constant ideas about the historical, political and national status of Bosnia, outlining the creation of the image of Bosnia and its inhabitants in the Croatian milieu.

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Národní parlamenty a evropská integrace: kolektivní aktér politického systému EU?

Author(s): Petr Kaniok / Language(s): Czech

The book is concerned with the role that national parliaments of EU Member states have had as a collective actor in the EU political system. The publication explains the historical development of this actorness and analyses its current form. In this regard, this monograph evaluates the use of instruments that have been provided to the national parliaments by the Lisbon Treaty. It explains why and to what extent the parliaments participate in collective scrutiny. The main finding of the book is that parliaments primarily understand their collective actorness as a brake to further European integration. Academic findings of the book are also set in general political context, stressing the need to improve the efficiency of parliaments in this role.

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Understanding Policy Attitudes: Effects of Affective Source Cues on Political Reasoning

Author(s): Lenka Hrbková / Language(s): English

How do citizens form their political attitudes? How do political actors influence people’s political views in their everyday lives? Do people’s feelings towards political parties and politicians influence the public opinion? The book presents a series of laboratory experiments focused on the formation processes of citizens’ attitudes to political issues in the context of their emotional attachments to political actors. The research puts emphasis on negativity and negative feelings of citizens towards political actors and shows that this type of negative attachment influences the way people think about political issues. Since the experimental method is a newcomer in the field of Czech political science, the volume’s ambition is also to introduce experiments as a relevant and useful tool for extending knowledge of substantial political processes and phenomena.

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Pravé, věrné a křesťanské příměřie…: Dohody o příměří mezi husity a stranou markraběte Albrechta na jižní Moravě

Author(s): Petr Elbel / Language(s): Czech

The monograph addresses a hitherto neglected area in the history of the Hussite Wars – the truce agreements between the warring parties. It focuses on South Moravia, where an interesting collection of these agreements from 1427–1433 has been preserved. The author focuses on the form of these agreements and subsequently places them within the wider context of the Hussite history in the region and elsewhere. The analysis of the truce agreements as a whole extends our knowledge of the political history of the Hussite era, provides information on the history of the everyday and expands our knowledge of the topography and prosopography of Hussite South Moravia. The book includes of the documents analysed a clearly laid-out table, a map, and an appendix of photographs.

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Panie k deťom a na upratovanie: Podoby platenej práce v domácnosti

Author(s): Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková / Language(s): Slovak

The monograph describes the emerging market of paid household work in Slovakia which is rather unusual: Unlike in other European countries, Slovak households mostly do not hire female migrants as domestic helpers but rather women who share nationality with those who hire them.

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Politicization in the Natural Gas Sector in South-Eastern Europe: Thing of the Past or Vivid Present?

Author(s): Martin Jirušek / Language(s): English

"In the last decade, there has been a number of mutual accusations of politicization of energy supplies between Russia and the West. These accusations came on heels with the general worsening of mutual relations between these two blocks. The biggest concerns have been related to gas supplies that were in the centre of the most serious supply crisis in January of 2009. The southeastern European states sustained the hardest blow as all Russian gas supplies flowing through Ukraine were stopped. On top of that, the impact on these states was more severe than in other parts of Europe due to their import dependency and structure of economies. In this book, the author addresses the question whether Russia really misuses gas supplies for its policy goals and what are the conditions for such use. Based on 13 case studies, the author examines whether Russia, through the state-owned company Gazprom and its subsidiaries, subscribes to the so-called strategic approach to energy policy. In other words, whether these companies serve as foreign policy tools of its homeland government."

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České předsednictví Rady EU – most přes minulost

Author(s): Petr Kaniok / Language(s): Czech

The book analyzes the Czech EU Council Presidency from the first half of 2009. The book consists of twelfe chapters describing and analyzing all aspects of Czech EU Presidency. The Presidency is analyzed in wide context, including case studies on preceeding French EU Council Presidency and suceeding Swedish EU Council Presidency.

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Liberální demokracie v době krize: Perspektiva politické filosofie

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech

Liberal democracy seems to be facing systemic threats that can be no longer labelled as normal oscillations in trust or explained as retreat of political activity to non-electoral participatory spheres. This volume brings together several key debates in political philosophy and theory which aim to provide responses to the perceived difficulties of liberal democracies. The authors share the conviction that the announced crisis of liberal democracy has important political roots – in other words, that its origins are to be primarily looked for in the normative background and institutional structure of extant liberal-democratic political systems. At the same time the book aims to provide an “advanced introduction” to contemporary debates in political philosophy, so that both students and researchers can draw on a balanced exposition of some central problems which animate political thinking about deeper roots of the systemic crisis of liberal democracy.

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Data analysis in the maritime domain

Author(s): Milena Stróżyna,Witold Abramowicz,Krzysztof Węcel,Dominik Filipiak,Jacek Małyszko / Language(s): English

The book delivers a rich set of foundations, state-of-the-art knowledge, new approaches and methods for the purpose of anomalies detection, maritime traffic analysis as well as risk and reliability assessment. It addresses relevant research problems at the intersection of maritime transport in global economies, reliability and risk assessment, and information systems and data processing. The book provides a theoretical overview of available maritime data sources and approaches for maritime data analysis, as well as a set of novel tools and methods for maritime data retrieval, fusion, and analysis. The proposed methods are evaluated on real-life AIS data, covering the entire world and more than 200 thousands of vessels, illustrating how they may be used for anomaly detection and risk assessment. The primary audience of the book are researchers from the fields of computer science and maritime transport as well as logistics service providers, shipping companies and port authorities companies that need support in managing security, safety, and risk of maritime transport services in global economies by making use of large-scale data processing.

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