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Potůček, Martin

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“…This is more surprising given the fact that, as former PMs, they both supervised partially failed privatization: Klaus from 1993 to 1998 and Zeman from 1998 to 2002. Czech elites’ autonomy in general decision-making (Potůček, 2000) and related geopolitical production stands in contrast, for instance, with Poland, where the opposite has been true, from the rise of Solidarność—the independent self-governing trade union representing roughly 10 million workers—in the 1980s to the more recent bottom-up, socio-religious rise of political conservatism and “symbolic thickening of public culture” (Kotwas & Kubik, 2019, for a more systemic CEE comparison, cf. Trencsényi et al, 2018).…”

Section: The Velvet Revolution That Wasn’t: Negotiated Transition And...mentioning

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Running in Place: “Czeching” out the W/E(a)stern Performative Presidential Geoprostitution

Hynek,

Moravec

2023

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

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This article attempts to explain the Czech Republic’s geopolitical vacillation between the West and East over the past three and half decades. We tie this behavior, where one orientation never prevails permanently, to the continuity of political elites from the communist to the post-communist periods. In addition to general relevance, we discuss its implications for the country’s recent reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The focal points of this analysis are the geopolitical discourses and practices of three consecutive presidents: Václav Havel, Václav Klaus, and Miloš Zeman, each marking a decade in the Czech presidential office. We provide a historical-structural context to show that the Czech case has been an important example of a small state with its security continuously compromised by the hierarchical penetrations of great powers: Nazi Germany, the USSR/Russia, and most recently, China and the United States. Yet, as we demonstrate, the Czech Republic cannot be considered a stereotypical victim with mixed-sovereignty agreements being imposed on it. We present the three presidents in their active roles of geopolitical architects vis-à-vis the great powers as well as the Czech government. Heuristically, we conceptualize presidential foreign-and-security activities as performative geoprostitution. We show that for Havel, the primary act of geoprostitution was institutionalizing a civilizational client-patron relationship between a small state and a superpower (the United States). In contrast, not only was Klaus and Zeman’s performative geoprostitution different due to its Eastern orientation, but it was motivated by their self-importance and desire to carve out political legacies and greased by corrupted business interests.

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Section: The Velvet Revolution That Wasn’t: Negotiated Transition And...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Running in Place: “Czeching” out the W/E(a)stern Performative Presidential Geoprostitution

Hynek,

Moravec

2023

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“…The specific features of the Central European non-profit sector obviously result from the extent to which the Communist legacy shaped the composition of the NGO sector in economic terms. The post-communist NGOs remain influenced by the region's communist past (Potucek, 2000).…”

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Long-term Determinants Long-term Determinants of the Size of the Non-profit Sector Serving Households in the Visegrad Countries

Špička

Arltová

Boukal

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Non-profit sector plays essential role in economies despite its marginal share in GDP since it provides valuable services for needy social groups. The article investigates differences in socioeconomic determinants of the size of the non-profit sector serving households in the Visegrad Countries particularly as to the magnitude and direction of the effect that these determinants exert. Getting knowledge about significant determinants of non-profit sector is important both for policy makers and the founders of non-profit organizations in their strategic decision making. The results are based on panel data regression in the long-term period 2000-2014. The Visegrad Group was investigated because it is a cultural and political alliance of four Central European states. Selected indicators represent supply-and demand-side theory of non-profit sustainability. The results show that GDP per capita is the significant determinant of the non-profit sector in the country with no tax assignation. The different systems of care for the elderly have an impact on the determinants of the size of the non-profit sector serving households (old-age dependency ratio, life expectation index). The government failure theory was established only in the Czech Republic where obvious competition between non-profit sector and health care system exists. In most Visegrad countries non-profit organizations help governmental sector to cope with increasing number of refugees in need, which supports the interdependence theory.

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„Wir“ versus „Sie“ — Selbst- und Fremdbilder neuer politischer Eliten in Polen, der Tschechischen Republik und in Ostdeutschland

Fehr

2003

Oberschichten — Eliten — Herrschende Klassen

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Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Running in Place: “Czeching” out the W/E(a)stern Performative Presidential Geoprostitution

Running in Place: “Czeching” out the W/E(a)stern Performative Presidential Geoprostitution

Long-term Determinants Long-term Determinants of the Size of the Non-profit Sector Serving Households in the Visegrad Countries

„Wir“ versus „Sie“ — Selbst- und Fremdbilder neuer politischer Eliten in Polen, der Tschechischen Republik und in Ostdeutschland

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