Potůček M.Voluntas, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2000Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers Abstract: This paper analyzes both the political discourse and the reality of Czech civil society. It describes how the concept of civil society has emerged in a difficult ideological context, and sets out how policy towards it has developed, also highlighting its economic role….
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Havel versus Klaus: Public Policy Making in the Czech Republic
Havel versus Klaus: Public Policy Making in the Czech Republic Potůček M.Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1999, pp. 163-176Kluwer Academic Publishers Abstract: In Central and Eastern Europe, we can observe and analyze an ongoing social experiment euphemized as “the process of the transformation of totalitarian countries with centrally planned economies into…
Splitting Welfare State: the Czech and Slovak Cases
Potůček M., Radičová I. Social Research, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Winter 1997), pp. 1605-1643 Abstract: The split of Czechoslovakia at the end of 1992 and the establishment of the two independent states saw the creation of a sort of a natural social experiment. How strong is the heritage and how long is the institutional path-dependency…
The Capacity to Govern in Central and Eastern Europe
Potůček M. (ed.) Bratislava, NISPAcee 2004 Publication presenting the outcomes of the High Level Meeting, organized jointly by NISPAcee and CESES ChU FSS under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in Prague on December 18.-20. 2003. Its aim was to analyze problems and challenges of strategic governance in CEE. Introduction (pp….
Public Policy in CEE: Theories, Methods, Practices
L. T. LeLoup, G. Jenei, L. Váradi (editors) Bratislava, NISPAcee 2003 Edited textbook on public policy, targeted on conditions of the transforming countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Preface (with G. Jenei and L. T. LeLoup)
Not Only the Market
M. Potůček Budapest, CEU Press 1999 More information on CESES web page. Study examines the balance between the market, government and the civic sector during the societal transformation of the Czech Republic and makes useful comparison with other postcommunist countries. Focusing on developmental issues, the book looks at a number of public concerns including social…