2011 ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************************** * Substance Use in a Comparative Perspective (The Case of Bulgaria, Czechia, Croatia, Roma ****************************************************************************************** Arnošt Veselý Dagmar Dzúrová (Eds.) Nakladatelství Karolinum Praha, 2011 The book puts together different pieces of evidence on the developments of substance use i communist countries over time. It builds a complex and reliable evidence base for empirica and identifies evidence gaps. Such developments are analyzed and interpreted using an orig framework and a combination of both quantitative and qualitative methodology. ****************************************************************************************** * Public programs, public projects and public procurement ****************************************************************************************** Frantiček Ochrana Wolters Kluwer Česká republika Praha 2011 The book focuses on most important aspects of public programs, public projects and public The book is devided into four chapters. The chapter one explores different approaches to a (evaluation) design and offers advice on the reform design of public resources in the Czec The chapter two desribes procedures a methods on program evaluation within tight time and Constraint. The author descibes method for evaluation of program and procedures for collec on program performance and indicates a new ways of quality control public programs. The ch supplies managment and financing techniques for avaluating public project. This chapter pr necessary to evaluate public project and illustrates quantitative techniques and shows how daily situations. The chapter four starts with general theory of acquisition processes, in issues, and proposes new incentives for reform public procurement order in the Czech Repub ****************************************************************************************** * Contemporary Methodological Issues of Public Policy ****************************************************************************************** Martin Nekola Hana Geissler Magdalena Mouralová (eds.) Nakladatelství Karolinum Praha, 2011 The publication aims at responding to such contemporary methodological issues in the field policy that are not only being debated internationally but also perceived by the authors a the field in the Czech Republic. The first part of the publication discusses specific anal and general research approaches. Extensive attention is paid to methods for analyzing the of attitudes and values among policy actors and their and argumentative strategies, such a analysis, frame analysis or Q methodology. More general research approaches are presented on policy research, comparative methods and case studies. The second part of the publicati different aspects of policy impact assessment. It reflects issues surrounding the implemen and RIA methodologies, both internationally and in the Czech Republic, and presents contin a relatively unknown method in the context of Czech public administration. ****************************************************************************************** * Studying the Future as a Challenge ****************************************************************************************** Martin Potůček a kolektiv Nakladatelství Karolinum Praha, 2011 The publication offers a comprehensive characteristic of seven fundamental challenges to s forecasting exercises from a holistic perspective. It begins by defining forecasting as th of conditional accounts of possible futures. It goes on to review forecasting methodologie with respect to the theories and assessment criteria applied. It studies the role of elite general public in forecasting production, the form of an institutional framework for forec challenges of globalization. It formulates a series of practical recommendations for socia and identifies the key substantive challenges that will confront Czech society and Czech g future ****************************************************************************************** * Social Rights, Active Citizenship and Governance in the European Union ****************************************************************************************** Edited by Prof. Thomas P. Boje, PhD and Prof. Martin Potucek 2011, 203 pp., pb., € 29.00 ISBN 978-3-8329-5419-2 (European Civil Society, vol. 10) The volume presents the main outcomes concerning social rights, active citizenship and gov the European Union as presented at the final conference of the CINEFOGO Network of Excelle March 2009). The classic social question that has faced modern nation states since the 19t been coming back – in the changing contexts of globalization and European integration. Res been involved in deepening the understanding of the role of civil society and new forms of Europe and the making of European citizenship. They have been systematically studying poli institutional, and economic conditions as well as different roles of various actors and in extent of their involvement in decision-making, and how their actions influence the changi conditions – including the actual accessibility of social rights to EU citizens. Different structural changes to welfare states and the extent and forms of citizens’ participation i public affairs have been placed in the centre of research attention. The authors are socia both the Old and New EU Member States who participated in the CINEFOGO Network of Excellen ****************************************************************************************** * Vzorce a hodnoty dobrovolnictví v české společnosti na začátku 21. století [Patterns and Volunteering in Early 21st Century Czech Society] ****************************************************************************************** Pavol Frič, Tereza Pospíšilová a kol. Nakladatelství Agnes Praha, 2010 The publication presents volunteering as a complex phenomenon and an integral part of the development. It understands volunteering as an outcome of both existing traditions and con at the level of individual activities and at the level of organizational and cultural fram of studying the causes of volunteering in the Czech Republic, the authors focus on the way functions and is practiced in the Czech Republic, indentify which ones are dominant, and s differ from the ideal volunteering patterns adopted from the literature and adapted for th of Czech society. Chapter 1 reviews and analyzes relevant theoretical literature on volunt attention is paid to the concept of volunteering patterns and values and to the delimiting dimensions at the individual and collective levels. Chapter 2 applies the concept in analy era volunteering and uses two logically coherent hypothetical stories to formulate assumpt the effects of that era on the shape of contemporary volunteering patterns. Chapters 3 to individual dimensions of Czech volunteering on the background of the concept of volunteeri the theory of modernization. The concluding chapter summarizes the evidence from individua analyzes relations between the internal dimensions of volunteering patterns and, finally, developments in Czech volunteering over the past twenty years.