http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96217 Issue 2 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:56:59 GMT 2026-04-04T04:56:59Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97189 Engineering Legend Jakubec, Ivan Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97189 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97062 Path Dependency Regarding Forms of Ownership through the Conception of Political Capitalism Cviklová, Lucie Major argument of the article draws on the perspective of institutional economics according to which post-communist privatizations were not symmetrical to communist nationalizations and for this reason it was not possible to conceptualize economic reforms in terms of the big bang claimed by liberals. More concretely, adherents of institutional economics have claimed that post-communist transformations should be seen through the perspective of formal rules and informal constraints; while formal rules could be changed relatively quickly by political mechanisms, informal rules have been rooted in social habits and routines and they cannot be changed very quickly due to their ʻpath dependency tendenciesʼ. The article highlights the notion of political capitalism elaborated by Polish researcher Jadwiga Staniszkis as a theoretical framework that could elucidate dissolution of nomenklatura system as well as explain transformation of economic domain in last decades of posttotalitarian regimes. Later on argumentation proceeds to explanation of institutional conceptualization of early post-communist property changes by differentiating among notions of ‘institutional privatizationsʼ, ‘spontaneous privatizationsʼ and ‘political capitalismʼ in order to provide a framework for the adoption of the more elaborated model that could contribute to insight in recent privatization processes. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97062 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97060 Concepts, Theories, Methods Štaif, Jiří Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97060 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96975 Prague’s Urban Elites and the Problem of Spreading Hunger, 1914–1918 Pojar, Vojtěch The presented study should by means of a discourse analysis related to an impact of food and other goods shortage on human body help to understand the purpose that in the period of the „Great War“ communal elites and other urban participants attributed to their standings. It points out continuity of mental stereotypes of the fear of hunger and epidemic in the Czech society that were influencing reasoning of communal elites. It also draws attention to an existence of the human body discourse stressing out the fact that human life and health are virtues as such and that it is necessary to protect them. This discourse started to be heard more in the speeches after 1917 and later on it even got a nationalist framework. In spite of that the shortage became a reason for their deligitimization. By contrast, the humanistic national discourse of the charitable organization České srdce established in the autumn of 1917 made use of an emotional and markedly gender representation of hunger and starving body and with an idea that the national identity bridging over conflict zones in the Czech society it achieved in the last war year a considerable resonance. The study presents by virtue of two examples an ambivalence of shortage impacts in the context of a disintegrating social consensus that became both a reason of deligitimization of particular social participants and a source of a public activity of other participants. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96975 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z