KLUSÁČEK, Petr, Stanislav MARTINÁT, Tomáš KREJČÍ, Josef KUNC, Jan HERCÍK, Marek HAVLÍČEK and Hana SKOKANOVÁ. Return of the Local Democracy to the Territory of the Military Training Areas (Case Study the Czech Republic). Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Oakland California: University of California Press, 2020, vol. 53, No 2, p. 191-213. ISSN 0967-067X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2020.53.2.191.
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Original name Return of the Local Democracy to the Territory of the Military Training Areas (Case Study the Czech Republic)
Authors KLUSÁČEK, Petr, Stanislav MARTINÁT, Tomáš KREJČÍ, Josef KUNC, Jan HERCÍK, Marek HAVLÍČEK and Hana SKOKANOVÁ.
Edition Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Oakland California, University of California Press, 2020, 0967-067X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50700 5.7 Social and economic geography
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 1.062
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2020.53.2.191
UT WoS 000582843400012
Keywords in English local democracy; military training areas; post-communist transition; brownfields; Czech Republic; municipalities
Tags RIV ne
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
The return of the local democracy to the military training areas raises a number of complex challenges even under the conditions of a democratic state. In the municipalities that were established in the Czech Republic on 1 January 2016 by a separation from the territory of the military training areas, a nondemocratic paternalist system has dominated for many decades at the local level, which in some cases was deepened by a presence of the foreign Soviet army. While other municipalities in the post-communist period after 1989 have undergone a complex development and have gradually responded to new challenges (e.g., the use of subsidy titles, intermunicipal cooperation), and, in the case of the settlements in the territory of the military training area districts, nondemocratic local paternalism was preserved until the end of 2015. In the first phase of their term, the elected representatives of the local government primarily focused on securing the basic functions of the municipality (issues of housing and basic amenities of the village—school facilities, shops), saving local sights as remnants of historical memory, and developing cooperation within different networks of actors on a general level (e.g., issues of tourism development, environmental protection).
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