Interrelated aspects of residential suburbanization and collective quality of life: A case study in Czech suburbs

Most people moving to suburban municipalities seek to enhance their quality of life. However, residential suburbanization may contribute to spatial separation of the population and adversely affect the collective quality of life. This article focuses on socio-geographical aspects of quality of life in the context of suburbanization from a theoretical perspective and also based on a case study in the countryside around the Czech city of Olomouc. Due to the complex nature of this issue, a range of qualitatively oriented methods was applied in the municipalities most affected by residential suburbanization. The findings of the case study show that quality of life for people living in these suburbs is influenced by geographical conditions as well as relations within the community and residents’ participation in public life in the municipality

Four Cases, the Same Story? The Roles of the Prime Ministers in the V4 Countries During the Covid-19 Crisis

The goal of this paper is to deliver a comparative analysis of the behaviors and statements of the PMs in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, using the concept of adaptive leaderships as a base for analysis. We employed the usage of four fundamental skills proposed by Glover, Friedman and Jones (2002) and of five fundamental recommendations proposed by Macpherson and ‘t Hart (2020) to assess the behaviors and relevant statements of the PMs of the four analyzed countries during the time of the pandemic. The fact that all four analyzed PMs did not employ many adaptive leadership skills and recommendations may serve as one of the possible explanations for the very problematic results in fighting COVID-19 during the second phase of the pandemic, when especially the Czech Republic and Slovakia belonged to the most affected countries. The costs of such limited competence are borne by citizens and businesses

Možnosti zvyšování efektivnosti veřejného sektoru v podmínkách krize veřejných financí II

Title in English: Improving Public Sector Efficiency in Times of Public Finance Crisis This publication is the summary of results of free selected PhD theses prepared by students from ESF MU, dealing with two very actual topics: – the analysis of impact from introducing heath care fees in the Czech Republic (Krutilova), – efficiency of taxation – administrative and compliance costs (Pompura, Cizmarik)

The Health Care System in Czechia

This country report provides a description of the emergence of a health care system under public responsibility in Czechia. The inception of the health care system refers to the first legislation stipulating entitlements to medical care after the independence of Czechoslovakia from the Austrian Monarchy. The report includes a brief description of major health care reforms, and the current organization of the health care system in the Czech Republic. It is part of the CRC 1342 Social Policy Country Briefs Series.1

Public Goods and Publicly Provided Goods

There seems to be an inaccuracy concerning the concept of public goods in the common Czech language. While the most scholars define this concept using some specific characteristics of its consumption, for instance education and health services are calls "public goods" by public often because they are publicly provided. This leads to some statements as "the government has to finance health care services because they are public goods". Such an arbitrary definition of public goods is possible, but it is not correct if we want to use the concept as an example of objective micro-economic market failure. We believe the characteristics of consumption of public goods have the objective nature and there is no way to put them under any arbitrary judgement. The human "right" for the better health can be accepted by society, but it does not mean that there is non-exclusion from the consumption of health cervices.

Competitive environment in waste management and its impact on municipal expenditures

This paper is based on the analysis of competitive environment in waste management in the South Moravian Region and its impact on current municipal expenditures. The paper presents the changes in the development of the municipal waste management and more specifically in the municipal solid waste expenditure per capita of the municipalities from South Moravia Region in the Czech Republic. The main goal of this paper is to examine the impact of competitive environment on the expenditure efficiency. We assume that spatial aspect of competitive environment has significant influence on the expenditure. This hypothesis was based on results of research rejected. The paper compares expenditure per capita for several municipality size groups and the data are also analysed separately for the each of the 7 districts of South Moravia Region in order to identify any significant differences in the development between the districts within the region. The period of the analysis covers 5 years from 2007 to 2011 and the sample consists of all 673 South Moravian municipalities

Integral representation theory: applications to convexity, Banach spaces and potential theory

This ambitious and substantial monograph, written by prominent experts in the field, presents the state of the art of convexity, with an emphasis on the interplay between convex analysis and potential theory; more particularly, between Choquet theory and the Dirichlet problem. The book is unique and self-contained, and it covers a wide range of applications which will appeal to many readers