Covers the period from 1988 to 1993.

Based on a case study approach in twelve countries, analyses and compares current practices and trends in employment relationships in higher education.

Discusses the history of social dialogue and its achievements in the Czech Republic during the 1990s.

Examines legislative changes since 1990 in Central and Eastern European countries with regard to the mechanisms, institutions and levels of collective bargaining, the legal nature of collective agreements, union representativeness, and labour dispute settlement.

In the first section, this paper describes the methods employed to calculate the first ever hedonic price index created in the Czech Republic using data from the country’s biggest mortgage lenders. This section also presents the wider context of the creation of this index and its practical...

This paper draws on James Ferguson’s concept of ‘anti-politics machine’ and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of illusio to explore the nature of the international development cooperation programmes financed by the Czech government. It argues that its character as an ‘anti-politics machine’...

This paper describes and discusses the development and use of health technology assessment (HTA) in five Central and Eastern European countries (CEE): Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. It provides a general snapshot of HTA policies in the selected CEE countries to date...

Im Beitrag werden die regionalpolitischen Strategien untersucht, die in der Tschechischen Republik, in Ungarn und in Polen nach deren EU-Beitritt praktiziert werden. Es geht um die Frage, ob in diesen Strategien eher dem räumlichen Wachstums- oder dem Ausgleichsziel Priorität gegeben wird....