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• The Effect of Education and Life Satisfaction on Engagement of Czech Citizens

  (2017/2)

  The general aim of the article is to assess the ways residents of Czechia engage in particular types of action in public interest (including attending a public hearing on a local issue, volunteering, donating or signing a petition) and in such...

• Editorial

  (2017/2)

  The electronic version of the second number of the fifteenth edition of the review Our Society (Naše společnost). Our Society issues Center for Public Opinion Research, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Celá...

• On components of political socialization – their generational continuity and discontinuity

  (2017/1)

  The process of political socialization, as shown by numerous findings, is characterised as the transmission of political action and behaviour through the generations. In connection with the political changes the Czech Republic experienced since 1945,...

• Public opinion on abortion and euthanasia – May 2017

  (Relations, Attitudes)

  In May 2017 within the regular survey the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on issues that could be perceived as morally controversial. Specifically, respondents answered questions concerned with the abortion and euthanasia. Celá tisková zpráva ke...

• Czech public opinion on the rights of homosexuals – May 2017

  (Relations, Attitudes)

  In May 2017 CVVM included a block of questions related to tolerance of Czech society towards homosexual oriented men and women into its regular survey Our Society. At the same time, there were questions focused on the attitudes of citizens to whether...

• Agreement with statements about the EU – April 2017

  (International Relations)

  The press release contains the outcome of the European Union statements questioning, in which the repondents have to express their agreement or disagreement. This press release contains the percentage ratio of agreement and disgreement and a comparsion...

• The Opposition Agreement Era in the Light of Public Opinion

  (2016/2)

  The so-called opposition agreement was concluded by the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) and the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) after the Chamber of Deputies elections of 1998. It paved the way for a ČSSD minority government in 1998–2002. To present...

• Trust in European and international institutions – April 2017

  (International Relations)

  In April 2017 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to confidence in European Union and international institutions. Questions focused mainly on trust in European Union in general and its concrete authorities. In...

• Opinions on European Integration – April 2017

  (International Relations)

  In the opinion poll carried out in April 2017 by the Public Opinion Research Centre, questions regarding attitudes of Czech citizens towards integration in the EU were included. More specifically, the questionnaire asked surveyors about their opinion...

• The Czech public on the future of the EU and adopting the euro – April 2017

  (International Relations)

  In April 2017 Public Opinion Research Centre focused on opinion to the level of integration of EU a the role of Czech Republic in this process. We were also interested about Czech public's opinions to the future of the of the united Europe. The part of...

• Public opinion on foreign nationals settling in the CR – March 2017

  (Relations, Attitudes)

  In March 2017 Public Opinion Research Centre examined as a part of its survey the opinions of the Czech public on long-term or permanently residing foreigners in the Czech Republic. Specifically, there were examined attitudes whether there are too...

• The Czech public’s views on foreign nationals – March 2017

  (Relations, Attitudes)

  In March 2017 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to foreigners. Respondents commented on foreigners who live in the Czech Republic and in their place of residence. Research also included set of questions about...

• The Czech public’s views of ethnic groups living in the Czech Republic – March 2017

  (Relations, Attitudes)

  In March 2017 Public Opinion Research Centre investigated attitudes of Czech public to seventeen national groups that are living in the Czech Republic in significant number. The most positive relation was observed to Czechs, Slovaks, and Poles, the...

• * Parameters of Czech voters’ party identity

  (2004/2)

  Motivation context for party preferences and the election act criteria are a very multi-faceted variable difficult to grasp and cannot be isolated from the entire process, in which opinions are formed. Understanding or interpretation of natural laws...

• * Public Opinion and Shifts in Political Parties Preferences

  (2003/3-4)

  Undoubtedly, party preferences are an indicator (and, from the point of view of media discourse, the most rewarding one) of political moods in the public. Why is it precisely party “popularity” that lays in focus of attention of laymen and expert...

• * Abstention from elections as one of the indicators of social cohesion / non-cohesion and its wider context (with special regard to the 2004 regional elections)

  (2005/1)

  The initial empirical background for this study (and a springboard for analysis of supplementary data and for further interpretation and hypothetic conclusions) is based on the results of a public opinion survey carried out by the Centre for Public...

• * Method of elections, powers of authority and the role of the president of the republic: public opinion versus constitutional practice

  (2005/1)

  In every democratic system, the position of the head of state has a specific meaning and various administrative and constitutional embedment. It is an institutional as well as symbolic expression of the state’s sovereignty, of its “unity in diversity”...

• * Women in politics and the attitudes of the public

  (2003/1-2)

  Low rate of representation of women in politics is closely connected with the status of women, who are regarded rather as a social group than as individuals. At the same time, their social status is lower than that of men. Perception of citizenship as...

• * Czech Public to European Union

  (2003/1-2)

  Many significant findings were obtained from a number of surveys conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre (Centrum pro výzkum veřejného mínění – CVVM) of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in connection...

• * Analysis of the European Parliament elections 2004 in the Czech Republic. Is the theory of second-order elections still valid?

  (2004/2)

  The results of the European Parliament elections in the Czech Republic were surprising for party participants, as well as for observers and students of political science, both from the viewpoint of election turnover, and success achieved by certain...