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The paper herein presents a summary of research targeting the attitudes of mayors of Czech municipalities towards the financing of municipalities and the submitted legislative determination of taxes. Data reflect expert interviews with a representative sample of nine municipalities in Central Bohemian region. The research was originally incorporated into the doctoral thesis by Ilona Kruntorádová accomplished at the Institute of Political Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague; it is contextualized in the paper with political debates about the new rules concerning the funding of municipalities. Such rules create divisions among the municipalities as well as the parties within the Nečas coalition government. The main research findings underline the prevailing lack of funds facilitating the development of small municipalities, mediation of the interests of municipalities through personal contacts rather than special interest associations, and deeper divisions between small municipalities and large cities. The research herein should primarily serve as a pre-research for larger inquiries involving a broader sample of municipalities throughout the Czech Republic.

Examining the interpretations on the "U.S. observation case," I am trying to answer the question of which contemporary theory may serve as the adequate context for telling the story of the birth of our right to privacy and the modern power structures endeavoring to oppress this right. Relying on the relevant literature, I have attempted to reconstruct twopossible theories in light of the strength of the relationship between privacy and power: the paradigm rooted in the sociology of work; and one judicial approach based on human dignity. The analysis of the two privacy paradigms in contrast with each other highlights their advantages and disadvantages. I also attempt to outline normative points of viewrelevant when analyzing the relationship between power and privacy in the digital age.

The issue of optimizing the mechanism for providing public services in the field of social protection of the population due to the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine on the part of Russia (from 2014 to the present), as a result of which internally displaced persons need to solve a number of urgent needs both in European countries (Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, etc.), including related to their accounting in these countries. In this sense, the objective of this editorial is twofold, on the one hand, to present volume 40, number 74 of Political Questions and, on the other, to highlight the concept and types of guarantees of ensuring legality concerning provision of public services in the sphere of social protection of population. It is concluded that the following types of guarantees of ensuring legality concerning provision of public services in the sphere of social protection of population in Ukraine have been justified: appeal of decisions, actions or inaction of public administration subjects on the provision of public services in the sphere of social protection of population in court (administrative proceedings); control over activities of public administration subjects concerning provision of public services in the sphere of social protection of population.

Among the female Polovtsy burials there are a little of burials with rank objects which are definitely connected with one social category. They can be divided into 3 groups: with one rank object, with two, and three ones. The analysis of a funeral ceremony and accompanying goods has revealed that all these burials undoubtedly belonged to notable Polovtsy women.Apparently, women buried with a cauldron before their death used to be leaders of a social cell (kosh, kin) for a while, or were wives (widows) of heads of tribal associations. Probably, the lifetime status of women with neck grivnas was not lower than that of the women buried with a cauldron. Most likely, they were wives, mothers, daughters, or sisters of elders, heads of kins or tribes. The rank level of women with unbent grivna was apparently somewhat lower than that of the women among whose grave goods there was a cauldron or neck grivna. Probably, these burials belonged to wives (widows) of military leaders.The lifetime status of women with two and three rank objects is most likely similar. These Polovtsy women possessed the highest status in a society and all completeness of authority in their social cell. ; В статье раскрывается социокультурный аспект женских половецких погребений, в состав погребального инвентаря которых входят шейная или распрямленная гривны, котел или набор этих предметов. Автор делает попытку определить прижизненный статус и ранг представительниц половецкой знати. ; В масиві жіночих половецьких поховань виділяється невелика кількість захоронень з ранговими предметами, які безперечно пов'язані з єдиною соціальною категорією. Їх можна поділити на 3 групи: з одним ранговим предметом, з двома і трьома. Аналіз поховального обряду та супровідного інвентарю виявив, що усі ці поховання, без сумніву, належали знатним половчанкам.Жінки, яких було поховано з казаном, мабуть, якийсь час перед смертю очолювали соціальний осередок (кіш, рід), або були дружинами (вдовами) голів родових об'єднань. Прижиттєвий статус жінок з шийними гривнами був, імовірно, не нижчим, ніж жінок, похованих із казаном. Скоріш за все, це були дружини, матері, доньки, сестри старійшин, голів родів або племен. Ранговий рівень жінок з розпрямленою гривною, мабуть, був декілька нижчим, ніж жінок, в інвентарі яких був присутній казан або шийна гривна. Можливо, ці поховання належали дружинам (вдовам) військових вождей.Прижиттєвий статус жінок з двома та трьома ранговими предметами, напевно, був близьким. Ці половчанки мали найвищий статус у суспільстві й усю повноту влади в своєму соціальному осередку.

During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana's new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies.Looking particularly at the nation's politically fraught decades from the 1950s to the present, Jackson explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Through government documents, in

"This book compiles and considers the politics of social institutions, from the time of the ancient Greeks to the Reformation in the sixteenth century. The focus is on those civil society institutions which occupy the intermediate social space which exists between the family or household, on the one hand, and what Hegel refers to as 'the strictly political state,' on the other. The book relies upon a way of thinking about politics according to which the internal affairs of social institutions are a legitimate concern for students of politics. A central feature here is the notion of authority, together with that of my station and its duties. The book considers what the theorists selected have said about the relationship that exists between superiors in positions of authority and their subordinates within hierarchical social institutions. It is assumed throughout that claims to authority always involve issues of social identity and of recognition. Individual chapters are devoted to an exploration of these themes in the writings of the ancient Greeks; in the writings of the Roman Stoics and the Roman law of corporations; in medieval Christianity; in the corporation theory of the later medieval and early modern periods; and finally in the works of the Protestant Reformers of the sixteenth century. The thinkers discussed include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua, Nicholas of Cusa, Jean Bodin, Charles Loyseau, John Calvin, Martin Luther and Gerrard Winstanley"--

Computers and Society explores the history and impact of modern technology on everyday human life, considering its benefits, drawbacks, and repercussions. Particular attention is paid to new developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the issues that have arisen from our complex relationship with AI.