Faculty of Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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REFLECTIONS ON TERRITORIAL CLEANSING: LESSONS FROM BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND COLOMBIA
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Glocalism
,2024
(July)
This small-N cross-regional analysis examines the link between extreme but far from isolated massacres perpetrated during the Bosnian War 1992-1995 and the 1997-2003 interval in the Colombian armed conflict. The afflicted ...
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Interesting facts: holistic interviews on children’s nonfiction engagement
original article
embargoed access
published version
2024
,Language and Education
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(4)
Nonfiction has long been left out of the discourse on literacy and little is known about the affective experiences that children seek when they choose to engage with facts via reading and otherwise. We have conducted an ...
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Why and how to construct an epistemic justification of machine learning?
original article
embargoed access
published version
2024
,Synthese
,204
(2)
Consider a set of shuffled observations drawn from a fixed probability distribution over some instance domain. What enables learning of inductive generalizations which proceed from such a set of observations? The scenario ...
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Leader vs. the party dilemma: the case of a party rebirth in Czechia
original article
embargoed access
published version
2024
,East European Politics
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(4)
Influential individuals gaining political weight at the expense of their parties are succeeding. Through case studies of two Czech parties, we explore the role of personalised party leadership. The puzzling set of events ...
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Náhradní výživné jako nedostupná dávka? (Emoční) bariéry jejího čerpání z perspektivy mladých dospělých dětí
Compensatory child alimony as an unavailable benefit? (Emotional) barriers to its access from the perspective of young adults
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Fórum sociální politiky
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(1)
Studie se věnuje problematice náhradního výživného, které je relativně novou dávkou české sociální politiky, ve vztahu k mladým dospělým - zletilým "nezaopatřeným" studujícím dětem, které mají nárok na výživné, ale nedostávají ...
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BEYOND BORDERS: UNVEILING THE MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF ZUZANA ČAPUTOVÁ IN CZECH ONLINE NEWS
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Communication Today
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(1)
This study underscores the influential capacity of transborder media communication in transcending geographical and political barriers, profoundly influencing political inclinations, voter behaviour, and public sentiment ...
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Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
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(3)
This article presents the design of a seven-country study focusing on childhood vaccines, Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe (VAX-TRUST), developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study consists of (a) situation ...
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The Role of Social (Political) Identity and Mediated “Reality” in Voter Behaviour (Case Study Slovakia)
article in reviewed proceedings
open access
published version
2024
,Helsinki
,University of Helsinki
,Working Papers in Emotions, Populism and Polarisation
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The study examines why voters in Slovakia's corruption-ridden political landscape continue to supportpoliticians with criminal ties, despite extensive media exposure of their misconduct. Drawing from LilianManson's 'Uncivil ...
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Expanding Observability via Human-Machine Cooperation
original article
embargoed access
accepted version
2022
,Axiomathes
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(Suppl. 3)
We ask how to use machine learning to expand observability, which presently depends on human learning that informs conceivability. The issue is engaged by considering the question of correspondence between conceived ...
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Is video games' effect on attitudes universal? Results from an empirical study comparing video games' impact on the attitude change of players with different backgrounds
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
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Existing studies confirm that some video games can change players' attitudes. However, since we do not know the specific elements responsible for attitude change, the potential of video games to achieve desired educational ...
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No-Regret Learning Supports Voters’ Competence
original article
open access
accepted version
2024
,Social Epistemology
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Procedural justifications of democracy emphasize inclusiveness and respect and by doing so come into conflict with instrumental justifications that depend on voters' competence. This conflict raises questions about jury ...
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”Against Red Fascism!”: Anti-Communism of the Czech Antifascist Action as a Polarizing Factor on the Czech Radical Left
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Partecipazione e Conflitto
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After the collapse of communism in 1989, several new phenomena emerged in the Czech Republic, including the far right, which built on aggressive anti-communism, nationalism, and support for right-wing currents. At the same ...
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Policy calibration and policy acceptability: assumptions, evidence, and practical implications
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Policy Design and Practice
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Policy calibration is often described as a technical phase of policymaking after the most important aspects of the proposed policy have already been decided. In this article, we show that policy calibration also has an ...
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Unlikely Alliances: How the Wars in Karabakh And Gaza Shape Northwest Asian Security
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Middle East Policy
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(2)
This study analyzes how ongoing conflicts in the Levant and the post-Soviet South Caucasus have upset the balance of relationships among Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Israel, Turkey, and Russia-and how this could escalate ...
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Interesting facts: holistic interviews on children’s nonfiction engagement
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Language and Education
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(4)
Nonfiction has long been left out of the discourse on literacy and little is known about the affective experiences that children seek when they choose to engage with facts via reading and otherwise. We have conducted an ...
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Unerwartete Allianzen Karabach, Gaza und die Folgen
Unexpected Alliances: Karabakh, Gaza, and the Consequences
original article
open access
published version
2023
,OSTEUROPA
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Die sicherheitspolitische Lage in Nordwestasien verändert sich dynamisch. Ausdruck und Folge sind der letzte Karabach-Krieg und der Überfall der Hamas auf Israel. Der Südkaukasus und die Levante scheinen weit voneinander ...
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Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Social Science and Medicine
,346
(April 2024)
Although Covid-19 was not the first pandemic, it was unique in the scale and intensity with which societies responded. Countries reacted differently to the threat posed by the new virus. The public health crisis affected ...
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Leaky Bodies, Vaccination and Three Layers of Memory: Bio-Immune, Social-Collective and Lived Experience
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Health Sociology Review
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(1)
This paper focuses on the omnipresent yet analytically almost invisible role of memory and bodily experiences in childhood vaccination. Previous scholarship on the sociocultural aspects of vaccination has primarily focused ...
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Lokálne politiky integrácie migrantov a ich štrukturálne mechanizmy
Local Migrant Integration Policies and Their Structural Mechanisms
collective monograph
open access
published version
2023
,Bratislava
,Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
Publikace se zabývá integrací migrantů v České republice, na Slovensku, v Belgii (Vlámsku) a v Německu (Bavorskou) s cílem přiblížit kontext integrace migrantů v jednotlivých zemích a najít příležitosti pro vzájemné učení ...
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Civil society organisations and labour market integration: barriers and enablers in seven European countries
chapter in a monograph
restricted access
published version
2023
,Bristol
,Bristol University Press
,Migrants and Refugees in Europe: Work Integration in Comparative Perspective
This chapter discusses the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the labour market integration of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers (MRAs) in the selected countries addressed by the book. It examines the positions ...
