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Vyuziti pristupu noveho institucionalismu pro vysvetleni institucionalnich zmen v oblasti politiky regionalniho rozvoje ve Slovinsku
In: Politologický časopis, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 432-450
ISSN: 1211-3247
The aim of the article is to apply the approach of new institutionalism to the development of the institutional framework for Slovenian regional development policy. In the first part, we present the elementary principles of new institutionalism & its typology, including the three basic types: historical institutionalism, sociological institutionalism, & rational choice institutionalism. We apply the concepts of logic of appropriateness & logic of consequences to explain & understand the stimuli, dynamics & scope of these changes. In Slovenia, one can identify two main phases of institutional adaptation: 1) the architecture of the institutional system for program administration in the pre-accession period (interpretation & translation of the rules); & 2) editing the established structure for the period of full EU-membership. Adapted from the source document.
How the Sociology of Housing Emerged
In: Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 207-225
The article attempts to examine the main topics in the sociological study of housing from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s & distinguishes the following five: (1) housing systems & housing policy, (2) the relationship between social stratification & housing differentiation, (3) the relationship between the family & housing, (4) the relationship between housing & neighbourhoods, & (5) housing & architecture as components of culture. During this period the sociological study of housing was strongly influenced by the changes occurring in the housing situation. The post-war housing shortage in Europe & the state's heavy involvement in tackling this problem, along with the rapid rise in the importance of social housing, led to an emphasis on the study of housing systems, housing policy, the methodology of quantitatively measuring housing needs, & the role of the state in the housing sphere, with a heavy stress on the economic dimension of housing issues. A shift to qualitative research on housing, i.e. studying the relationship between the family & housing & the housing needs of the elderly & new families, occurred as the housing shortage declined. Culturally oriented housing research followed, as a response to the search for new identities & for genius loci. As housing has become commodified in Europe & social housing has almost disappeared over the past twenty-five years, there has been revival of the study of the social consequences of narrowly defined economic concepts of housing policy.