Faculty of Social Sciences
Recent Submissions
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The Gift of Gab: A Netnographic Examination of the Community Building Mechanisms in Far-Right Online Space
original article
restricted access
published version
2025
,Terrorism and Political Violence
,37
(3)
Major social media platforms have recently taken a more proactive stand against harmful far-right content and pandemic-related disinformation on their sites. However, these actions have catalysed the growth of fringe online ...
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Negotiating autonomy in the public sector and nonprofits "collaborations" in politically contested fields
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Governance
,37
(4)
Nonprofits are increasingly involved in cross-sectoral collaborations with the public sector. However, we know little about the dynamics behind these collaborations and what happens to them in politically contested fields ...
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Remedies against the Pandemic: How Politicians Communicate Crisis Management
review
embargoed access
published version
2024
,Slovo a slovesnost
,85
(3)
Nadine Thielemann & Daniel Weiss (eds.): Remedies against the Pandemic: How Politicians Communicate Crisis Management. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2023. vi+301 pp. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 102
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How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic
original article
open access
published version
2025
,Political Geography
,117
(Neuveden)
In recent decades, a strong demographic decline has characterized post-communist Central and Eastern European countries. Using the Czech Republic as a case study, we apply a multilevel structural equation model to test the ...
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Using the Campbell Paradigm to Understand the Role of Institutional Trust in Environmental Policy Support
original article
open access
published version
2024
,International Journal of Sociology
,54
(5-6)
Previous studies have shown that institutional trust is associated with people's support for some environmental policies (e.g., support for higher taxation) but not others (e.g., support for subsidies and bans). Such ...
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Exploring children's embodied story experiences: a toolkit for research and practice
original article
open access
published version
2022
,Literacy
,56
(4)
Literacy research and practice are invigorated by evidence that stories enhance empathy and concentration. Both benefits are associated with attending to inner sensory states afforded by stories. Yet children are rarely ...
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Fertility, economic development, and remittances in post-communist times
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Journal of Maps
,20
(1)
This study investigates fertility responses to remittances across developed and developing countries in post-communist times. We first collected fertility, remittances, and income statistics over the 1995-2020 period and ...
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Religious-secular as non-competitive: Encouraging participative church in a Czech Catholic diocese
original article
embargoed access
published version
2024
,Social Compass
,71
(2)
The presented text builds upon 4 years of applied research intended to support the transformation of a Czech Catholic diocese into a more participative organisation, internally and externally. This process allowed us to ...
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Understanding users’ responses to disclosed vs. undisclosed customer service chatbots: a mixed methods study
original article
embargoed access
published version
2024
,AI & Society
,39
(6)
Due to huge advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, chatbots are gaining significance in the field of customer service. For users, it may be hard to distinguish whether they are communicating ...
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Post-COVID health policy responses to healthcare workforce capacities: a comparative analysis of health system resilience in six European countries
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Health Policy
,139
(January)
A cross countries in Europe, health policy is seeking to adapt to the post-pandemic 'permacrisis', where high demands on the healthcare workforce and shortages continue and combine with climate change, and war. The success ...
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Expert, experts et expertise pendant la crise de la COVID-19 – le cas tchèque
Experts, experts and expertise during the COVID-19 crisis - the Czech case
chapter in a collective monograph
open access
published version
2024
,Stockholm
,Stockholm University Press
,Comparing the place of experts during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic
La crise de la COVID-19 a mis en lumière une catégorie d'experts déja bien connue en République tchèque, mais longtemps négligée et sous-financée : les épidémiologistes. Face a des défis que personne n'aurait pu prévoir, ...
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Meta-Analysis of Social Science Research: A Practitioner’s Guide
original article
open access
submitted version
2024
,Journal of Economic Surveys
,38
(5)
This paper provides concise, nontechnical, step-by-step guidelines on how to conduct a modern meta-analysis, especially in social sciences.We treat publication bias, p-hacking, and heterogeneity as phenomena meta-analysts ...
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Conventional wisdom, meta-analysis, and research revision in economics
original article
open access
submitted version
2024
,Journal of Economic Surveys
Over the past several decades, meta-analysis has emerged as a widely accepted tool to understand economics research. Meta-analyses often challenge the established conventional wisdom of their respective fields. We ...
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Student Employment and Education: A Meta-Analysis
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Economics of Education Review
,100
(June 2024)
Educational outcomes have many determinants, but one that most young people can readily control is choosing whether to work while in school. Sixty-nine studies have estimated the effect, but results vary from large negative ...
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Meta-analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Research Synthesis Methods
,15
(2)
We demonstrate that all meta-analyses of partial correlations are biased, and yet hundreds of meta-analyses of partial correlation coefficients (PCCs) are conducted each year widely across economics, business, education, ...
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Transformative Activism and Feminist Solidarity: A Qualitative Study on the Personal Narratives of Polish Activist Women
original article
embargoed access
published version
2024
,Gender a Výzkum
,25
(1)
The intersection of personal experiences, political contexts, and feminist activism are explored in this qualitative study of Polish migrant women activists. Informed by the author's own personal solidarity story and ...
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WHO HOLDS THE POWER IN DIGITAL PARTIES? THE CASE OF THE CZECH PIRATE PARTY
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Studia Politica
,24
(1)
Digital platforms play a dominant role in shaping (part of) the public sphere and are increasingly being adopted by political parties. These platforms connect people to various services, such as taxis and food delivery, ...
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Electoral manipulation and postelectoral protests in Latin America
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Latin American policy
,15
(3)
What is the relationship between electoral manipulation andpostelection protests in Latin America? The political scienceliterature has traditionally expected that election manipulationcan lead to postelection demonstrations, ...
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Publication and Attenuation Biases in Measuring Skill Substitution
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Review of Economics and Statistics
,106
(5)
A key parameter in the analysis of wage inequality is the elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled labor. We show that the empirical literature is consistent with both publication and attenuation bias in ...
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Learnability of state spaces of physical systems is undecidable
original article
embargoed access
published version
2024
,Journal of Computational Science
,83
(December 2024)
Despite an increasing role of machine learning in science, there is a lack of results on limits of empirical exploration aided by machine learning. In this paper, we construct one such limit by proving undecidability of ...
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