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Crime without Punishment: Countering Corruption and Organized Crime in Bulgaria

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English

The report provides an overview of the state and dynamics of the corruption in Bulgaria as well as of the Bulgarian anticorruption policy and initiatives during the first two years of Bulgaria`s EU membership. This period can be described with a high rate of crimes without punishment such as political corruption and organized crime. This report explores the facets and sources of political corruption in Bulgaria. It tracks the dynamics of the hidden economy in the country and the main channels for corrupt interaction between business and politics.

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European Union at the crossroads: The European perspectives after the global crisis

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In May 2011, during the Hungarian EU presidency a big international conference was organized in Budapest that offered a good occasion to review of the SBH team presidency and to look beyond to the competitive Europe in the postcrisis period in both national and regional terms. No doubt that the European Union arrived at the crossroads and it necessitated to deal with the European perspectives after the global crisis. So this issue has become the central topic, and also the title of the present, 14th volume of this series, based mostly on the papers of the Budapest expert conference. The protracted global crisis took a “W” shape that culminated in the summer 2011, in such a way the authors closed their chapters in an open ending game in August 2011.

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From the Lisbon Strategy to the Europe 2020 Strategy: Think European for the Global Action

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The Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office in cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has initiated a research project to elaborate the strategic vision for the Spanish- Belgian-Hungarian team presidency. The strategic working group of Spanish, Belgian and Hungarian experts had their first meeting on 7-9 September 2007 in Hungary, at the nice resort place, Lillafüred. This process of the intensive SBH cooperation was followed by the second meeting in Brussels on 17-18 April 2008 and in Madrid on 12-13 March 2009. The experts of the SBH team presidency met again in Hungary, on 11-12 2009 in Gödöllő, near Budapest in the former Royal Palace in order to discuss the perspectives of the Spanish presidency as the first rotating presidency in the SBH team presidency. It was followed by a conference in Brussels on 27-28 April 2010 on the incoming Belgian presidency.

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Finanční účetnictví

Author(s): Eva Hýblová,Jaroslav Sedláček,Petr Valouch,Zuzana Křížová / Language(s): Czech

Cílem tohoto studijního textu je uvést budoucí ekonomy do problematiky finančního (podvojného) účetnictví tak, aby pochopili jeho filosofii, jeho úlohu v řízení podniku a jeho význam pro vnější okolí podniku. Hlavním úkolem současného účetnictví je věrně a poctivě zobrazit skutečnost. Kvantifikuje primárně ekonomické jevy a proto je úzce spjatos rozhodováním, avšak na druhé straně uznává požadavky obchodního a daňového práva. Čtenáři se seznámí s účelem a funkcí účetnictví, s jeho právní úpravou a se základními účetními prvky a principy, na které navazují základní postupy účtování o hospodářských transakcích, s nimiž se setkáváme v podnikové praxi. Výklad obsahuje obecné teoretické přístupy včetně jejich praktického uplatnění v oblasti hospodaření podniků.

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Podoby a proměny města ve slovanských a vybraných neslovanských kulturách, literaturách a jazycích

Author(s): Stanislava Adámková,Marek Čorba,Eva Mikulková,Veronika Neničková,Stanislav Oplatek,Michał Przybylski,Anton Somov,Milan Strmiska,Martin Surovčák,Josef Šaur,Pavel Zeman / Language(s): Czech

This publication is the result of research by a young collective (professional staff and doctoral and non-doctoral students) from the Department of Slavonic Studies at Masaryk University’s Faculty of Arts. Its component chapters provide studies on the broadly-defined topic of the urban space in all three zones of the Slavic region—East-Slavic, West-Slavic (Central European), and South Slavic (Balkan-Slavic)—with some carry over into the non-Slavic Balkan environment. The whole publication is based on the area concept, which consists mainly in stepping beyond the conventional borders of traditional philology and creating room for intertwining of philological and social sciences. The individual surveys analyze phenomena traditionally covered by linguistics, language teaching theory, history, religious studies, and literary science.

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Konkurence a výkonnost na evropských železnicích

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

European countries after 1993 applied railway reforms. The reform strategy included vertical separation (infrastructure – services), horizontal separation (freight – passenger) and the entry of competition. The aim of this book is to identify the effect of reforms on railway’s output. Based on regression analysis of data in 27 European countries in the period 1995–2011 it was identified, that horizontal separation is increasing output where as no clear effectcould be identified in case of vertical separation. The effect of competition entry was different for sample of Western and Eastern European countries. In passenger sector the entry of competition was increasing output in Western Europe but decreasing it in Eastern Europe. Also other reform and control variables had significantly different effects for samples of Western and Eastern European countries. The results therefore indicate that European railway reform generates different results for Western and Eatstern European countries.

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Český lokální a regionální tisk mezi lety 1989 a 2009

Author(s): Lenka Waschková Císařová / Language(s): Czech

The fall of communism in 1989 brought major social, political and cultural changes in the Czechoslovakia. This book concentrates on changes in one particular segment of the media market, the subsystem of local and regional print media. This segment of the media landscapeis rarely studied although – arguably – it is a significant part of the media system, particularlyas it enables strong identifications at the local/regional level. Czech local and regional press has been the centre of attention in relation to the entry of foreign owners on the market and particularlyin relation to issues of possible media concentration on this segment of the market but concentrated academic study of this subject is seriously lacking. The text aims at mapping structural changes that characterize this segment of the media market between 1989 and 2009. It analyzes political and economic factors that played a role in the transformation and identifies commercialization as a major influence. The book makes use of three research methods: document analysis, semi-structured in-depth interviews, survey and content analysis. The analysis operates at two levels, those of the media system and the media organization and it uses a case study approach for an in-depth analysis of the case of the Vltava-Labe-Press (VLP) publishing house that has become dominant on the Czech local and regional print media market. The main hypothesis that the book addresses is that the influence of commercialization (and its constituting elements on the macro and micro levels) within the transformation process leads to the gradual erosion of the local characteristics (a process we term delocalization) of this particular segment of the media system.

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The Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

Author(s): Tamás Csíki,Jan Daniel,Ľubomír Lupták,Diāna Potjomkina,Richard Turcsányi,Václav Walach / Language(s): English

This book employs various theories of contemporary security studies to explore some of the most important and most common security issues in Central Europe at this time. Individual chapters of the book adhere mainly to European branches of critical and constructivist security studies,through which they look at some of the salient topics of Central European security politics. The distinction between internal and external security issues is employed throughout the book for analytical purposes. Under this framework, alliance building, security guarantees, “special relationships,” the relational politics of identity, and relations with major powers – documented in the book on the case of Latvia’s relations with United States – are examples of external security issues. Various pressing domestic security challenges, illustrated on the case of Hungarian far-right movements and their activities towards the Roma minority, are examples of internal security issues.

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Hudebně-literární slovník. Hudební díla inspirovaná slovesným uměním. Skladatelé 20. století. III. díl slovníkové trilogie

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

The third part of a Musical-Literary Dictionary builds on the first two parts of the Dictionary dealing with international and Czech composers which were published by the Masaryk University Press in 2011. The third part of the Dictionary concludes a monumental dictionary trilogy. This work deals with literary production of the 20th century composers and registers only their musicial compositions which are linked to literary (exceptionally also visual) art. The link could have a form of unspecified literary, visual or musical inspiration. In the most cases the connectionis about a common idea, theme, content or text of a literary work. The Dictionary designed this way brings a new and original point of view to the 20th century artificial and non-artificial musical production in a worldwide context into Czech and world musicial and literary lexicography. The book includes 4,205 musicial works of 533 Czech and international composers living from 1930 to the present and, on the other hand, it includes also 1,995 literary authors whose literary works have inspired the birth of musicial works. Furthermore the Dictionary pays attention to folk literature and its display in musicial production and also to musical works through which their authors have paid tribute to important artists of the past.

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Mladí a nevšední: Studie občanského života mladých lidí z etnických menšin a majority v České republice

Author(s): Jan Šerek,Zuzana Petrovičová,Michaela Porubanová-Norquist / Language(s): Czech

The goal of the book is to capture perceptions of the Czech society and subsequent civic participation among young people from two ethnic minorities (Roma and Ukrainian) and the social majority. The authors focus on young people’s overall evaluation of the society, confidence in institutions, perceived collective efficacy and perceived discrimination. They study the patterns of young people’s civic participation, and also how these patterns relate to person’s social position, perceptions of the society and social environment. In their analyses, they build on two types of data (questionnaire-based survey and focus groups), collected in 2010–2011.

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Ekonomické a správní nástroje ochrany krajinného rázu

Author(s): Jiří Guth,Naďa Johanisová,Martina Filipová / Language(s): Czech

The publication analyses and discusses legal and financial tools, including international strategies and policies, relevant to the protection of landscape character with a focus on agricultural impact in the Czech Republic. The first section summarises the available Czech literature on the subject and includes an analysis of the changes in scale of Czech farms after 1989. The second section summarises relevant financial instruments and their influence on landscape character. In the third section, a more detailed analysis of selected tools is attempted, including several case studies describing their use and impacts in practice. Section four summarises relevant international agreements, strategies, policies, and national and regional government programmes, and discusses their influence on landscape character in the Czech Republic. In the fifth section, policy changes on a national, international, and regional level favourable to landscape character are suggested. The summary in section six offers some general comments, including a plea for more effective control mechanisms and for more complex policies and strategies integrating small-scale rural renewable energy production with water and landscape character conservation and sustainable agricultural production based on local economic and biological loops.

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S genderem na trh: Rozhodování o dalším vzdělávání patnáctiletých

Author(s): Martina Hynková,Klára Janoušková,Lucie Jarkovská,Tomáš Katrňák,Kateřina Lišková,Iva Šmídová,Marie Valentová / Language(s): Czech

The book focuses on the interconnected systems of education and labour market. This qualitative research conducted in families and schools of fifteen years old girls and boys is set in the context of contemporary research of gender aspects of educational systems and the paid-work sphere. It deals with the problem of choosing secondary school and future vocation at the end of the elementary school. The findings of the research are grounded both in sociological theories (emphasising the connection between the social structure and the behaviour of individual actors) and in feminist approaches (emphasising the necessity of social change towards a fair and just society).

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Severoatlantická aliance a řešení ozbrojených konfliktů: Komparace angažmá v Kosovu a Libyi

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

The following conclusions may be drawn from the analysis of cases in which NATO, as a security alliance of democratic states, proactively engaged in armed conflict through the use of military force, and in which its policies sparked controversy with regard to perceptions of international law. The Alliance employs military force in situations where an extensive humanitarian disaster is ongoing, impending, or anticipated, and where the international community exhibits strong expectations that NATO should address the escalating crisis. Both of the examined cases involved humanitarian disaster; however, both crises proved less severe than anticipated by the international community at the time of NATO’s military engagement.

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Child welfare discourses and practices in the Czech lands: the segregation of Roma and disabled children during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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

In terms of methodological approaches, this book puts together eugenic studies and the segregation of Roma in order to indicate the new approaches to exploring the impact of the past on the current policies and routine practices in post-socialist world. It is possible to differentiate two camps of social scientists who practice historical method for reinforcing their attitudes towards the segregation of the Roma. In terms of retrospective analysis, both camps focuson the socialist period as a source of current issues regarding Roma, their discrimination and the intractability of practices. The main difference between these camps is the way of explaining the issue of segregation. Performed by applied scientists who study the strategies for well-balanced co-existence of the Czech and Roma, the first camp of scholars reproduces various essentialist concepts regarding Roma – putting forward the insuperable difference between the “white” majority and Roma as a call for more tolerant attitude. Utilising trans-historical disclosure of “traditional” values, the other camp leads the sources of segregation to the inappropriate discourses disseminated amongst public as well as professionals. Catching others in the act of producing essentialist notion, these scholars often criticise the first camp but remain unable to construct the sustainable alternative to segregation. While the critical response to the first camp connects it with the previous practices and policies of segregation, the critical deconstruction of post-socialist trans-historis mensures the necessity of deeper contextualization in order to recognise options for sustainable integration.

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Neziskové organizace: teorie a mýty

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

The roles and functions of non-profit organizations have been transforming in the last few decades; massive change is occurring in the non-profit sector and its organizations. Their position have progressively shifted, their traditional philanthropic and associational roles are being supplemented by other functions, missions and goals. Non-profit organizations are increasingly becoming competitors and collaborators with private firms and government agencies; they also represent important economic forces. The role of non-profit institutions in the modern world is certainly considerable and worthy of study. This book is focused on those above mentioned issues: non-profit organizations behaviour and the way particular theories and definitions reflect the non-profit phenomenon. The basic and favoured theories are being examined and confronted with real manners of the non-profit subjects. The attention is being paid especially to the basic concepts of the non-profit economics. The analysis of the particular theories and concepts serves as a base for the recommendations for the public policies towards the non-profit sector.

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Jugoslávie – Srbsko – Kosovo: Kosovská otázka ve 20. století

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

Kosovo issue represents a comprehensive complex of problems and issues, ensuing from troubles involving the coexistence of provincial Albanian majority and Serbian minority, residing at small common territory situated in the middle of Balkans. The submitted monograph describing the Kosovo issue covers the entire 20th century. Wherever it may be necessary, we strive to disclose deeper roots of some phenomena, or in cases, where an interpretation of certain development trends may remain unclear without elucidating their historical past. It specifies trials of Yugoslavian establishment to resolve “Albanian issue” in interwar royal Yugoslavia and during WW II. Commonalty of the publication then analyses genesis, development, and functioning of Kosovo autonomy in communist Yugoslavia since 1945 to 1990. Reflections of these events were given based on detailed studying of archival resources.

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Living in the Digital Age: Self-presentation, Networking, Playing, and Participating in Politics

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Some of the most pertinent questions those of us living in developed countries encounter – both as individuals and as members of societies – have to do with how we live in the digital age. The range of scientific, economic, legal, and ethical discussions on the issue may, at times, feel overwhelming. Initial scholarly and policy claims about the revolutionary impact of the internet – on the ways in which we conduct our everyday lives, relate to one another, develop personality traits, and exercise our democratic rights – that surfaced in the early 1990s have gradually become more nuanced as more scientific evidence became available. This book Living in the Digital Age: Self-presentation, Networking, Playing, and Participating in Politics seeks to contribute to some of the most up-to-date, complex explorations of the topic.

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Socializace do školního jazyka

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

It could appear that people use the same language in school as they do everywhere else. Nonetheless, school language is so specific that it is often considered to be a foreign language. In fact, students begin to learn particular facts together with ways to talk about them as soon as they enter school. The sole purpose of this book is to examine this process which is typically called school-language socialization. The book, based on empirical research of classes of Czech language at lower secondary schools, describes how students learn to use language in a specific culturally determined way in conformity with the customary teaching activities of a given school subject.

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Role lokálních projektů v české politice zaměstnanosti: Evaluační studie projektu zaměřeného na zvýšení zaměstnatelnosti zdravotně postižených osob a osob starších padesáti let

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

The book deals with the topic of local employment projects financed by the European Social Fund in the Czech Republic and their potential to enhance employability of selected vulnerability groups of job seekers. Most chapters are devoted to the evaluation of an example local employment project. On this case study, the author shows how similar projects can be evaluated, what may be their strengths and weaknesses, and how much they can contribute to increasing employability of their participants.

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Alokacja czasu jako podstawowego zasobu człowieka. Perspektywa nowej ekonomii gospodarstwa domowego

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

Książka prezentuje nową ekonomię gospodarstwa domowego przez analizę alokacji czasu z użyciem narządzi statystycznych. Autor przeprowadził badania, których głównym celem było wyjaśnienie sposobów alokacji łącznego zasobu czasu w polskich gospodarstwach domowych w procesie maksymalizowania użyteczności z konsumpcji. Chcąc zidentyfikować czynniki, które determinują alokację czasu, odwołano się do cech społeczno-demograficznych i ekonomicznych osób i gospodarstw domowych, szczególnie zwrócono uwagę na sposoby gospodarowania czasem w zależności od płci.

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