POLICY ANALYSIS IN THE CZECH REPUBLICInternational Library of Policy Analysis
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POLICY ANALYSIS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Edited by Arnot Vesel,
Martin Nekola, Eva M. Hejzlarov
International Library of Policy Analysis, Vol 8
First published in Great Britain in 2016 by
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Contents
Arnot Vesel |
Martin Potek |
Vilm Novotn |
Eva M. Hejzlarov |
Martin Potek, Vladimr Hulk, Klra Hulkov Tesrkov, Libor Stejskal |
Ivo losark |
Arnot Vesel, Martin Nekola |
Martin Nekola, Arnot Vesel |
Dan Ryav |
Kateina Merklov, Kateina Ptkov |
Paulna Tabery |
Vojtch Sedlek, Arnot Vesel |
Vilm Novotn, Martin Polek, Michel Perottino |
Karel ada, Kateina Ptkov |
Vlastimil Neas, Tom Trampota |
Ondej Csa, Milan Hrube |
Tereza Stckelov |
Arnot Vesel, Eva M. Hejzlarov, Anna Zelinkov |
Arnot Vesel, Martin Nekola |
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Karel ada is lecturer and researcher in the Institute of Sociological Studies at Charles University in Prague. His main research interests lie in interpretative policy analysis, discourse analysis, deliberative democracy, social inclusion and health policy. Among his latest publications is the paper Between clients and bureaucrats: an ambivalent position of NGOs in the social inclusion agenda in Czech statutory cities (with K. Ptkov, Policy and Society, 2014); Category making in discourses of health policy reforms: the case study of the Czech Republic (AsiaEurope Journal, 2014) and the chapter Social exclusion of the Roma and the Czech society (in The Gypsy Menace: Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics, 2012).
Ondej Csa is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Charles University and is also affiliated to the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; he is editor-in-chief of the Czech edition of Czech Sociological Review. His main research interests lie in the fields of political mobilisation, social movements and political sociology. His recent publications include The emergence of a European social movement research field (with M. Diani, Routledge Handbook of European Sociology, 2014), Promoting competition or cooperation? The impact of EU funding on Czech advocacy organizations (with J. Navrtil, Democratization, 2014) and Social movements in political science (The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements, 2015).
Eva M. Hejzlarov is lecturer and researcher in the Department of Public and Social Policy at Charles University in Prague. Her main research interests lie in interpretive policy analysis and marginalised groups. Among her latest publications are Policy analysis in the Czech Republic: positivist or postpositivist? (Central European Journal of Public Policy, 2010) and Neviditeln akti v policy analysis [Invisible stakeholders in policy analysis] (Sociln studia [Social Studies], 2014).
Milan Hrube is a PhD student in the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, and a researcher in the International Institute of Political Science at Masaryk University. His research interests include political language analysis, framing analysis and political framing. Recent publications include For rule of law, political plurality, and a just society: use of the legislative veto by President Vclav Havel (with V. Havlk and M. Pecina, East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 2014) and Analza Policy[Policy Analysis] (editor, 2011).
Vladimr Hulk is head of the Analytical Unit at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. His research interests are focused on benchmarking and indicators of education systems (especially in the international context) and methods for output forecasting of education systems. Recent publications include Dopady demografickho vvoje na vzdlvac soustavu v esk Republice [Impacts of the demographic development on the education system in the Czech Republic] (with K. Hulkov Tesrkov,