Název odkazuje na myšlenku amerického historika Michaela Frische, že orální historie je
přístupem k vnímání a pojímání minulosti, který se symbolicky nachází mezi „laickou …

Against the backdrop of the current popularity of the concept of narrative in the social
sciences the authors analyse the uses of narrative analysis in empirical social research and …

This article compares profiles and policy-related activities of policy workers (PWs) in thirteen
Canadian provinces and territories with PWs in the Czech Republic regions. Canadian data …

This paper examines the profiles and work tasks of officials in central and regional
administration in the Czech Republic. It analyzes data from surveys among the officials of …

The aim of this article is to map out and analyse how the viewers of the communist-governed
Czechoslovak television understood the propagandist television serials during the so-called …

After the fall of communist regimes at the turn of the 1990s, a new era of development began
in many countries. The transformation from communism wasn't always successful. It is this …

This study compares three groups of full-time politicians in the Czech Republic. Two of these–
MPs and mayors–came into existence in the early 1990s immediately after the fall of the …

The article examines how notions of thrift, saving, and frugality were present and active in
the state-socialist discourses of economic behaviour and what meaning these notions …

A large collection of autobiographical life story material available in oral-history data is used
to examine how women and men of different socio-political groups (workers, intelligentsia …

Democratic socialism, when understood as real participation of citizens in social decisions,
cannot be imagined without public opinion research (…) Public opinion can become an …