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Regionální studia navazujícího magisterského programu Ekonomie a hospodářská správa na Národohospodářské fakultě VŠE v Praze (listopad 2007) Test je v anglickém jazyce 1. State, state mechanism. Characteristics of state – state territory, inhabitants, state power. System conception of state. State mechanism. Legality and legitimacy. State and nation. 2. Democracy, voting right and electoral systems. Democracy. Types of democracy. Relation between majority and minority in democratic state. Undemocratic state and its forms. Function of election in democratic society. Voting right. Electoral systems. 3. Horizontal division of power, relations between the most important national authorities. Forms of state. Republic and monarchy. Classification of monarchies. Parliamentary, presidential and neopresidential republic. Government of assembly. 4. Vertical division of power, state organization. National and regional state organization. Unitary state. Autonomy. Federation. Confederation. Specific forms of state formation. Personal union. Real union. 5. Basic information concerning the constitutional system of Czech Republic. Characteristics of Czech constitution. Form of government in Czech Republic. Principles of constitutional organization. Constitution and constitutional order. 6. Governance, administration and management. Governance and regulation. Private and public administration. Subjects of public administration. Characteristics and form of state administration. Characteristic and function of regional administration. Other subjects of public administration. 7. Public administration organization. Decision making in public administration. Forms of public administration organization. Organizational principles and models. Bureaucracy and bureaucratization. Decision making and phases of decision making process. Types of decision making and limits of decision making. Situations of decision making. 8. State service, public service. State service, public service, administrative service – terminology. Assumptions and characteristics needed for state service. Special service. Systems of state service, recruit of employees for public services. 9. Legal definition of regional self-government. Characteristics of regional selfgovernment in Czech legislative acts. Municipality and “kraj”. Spatial basis of “kraj”. Connection and division of municipalities. Towns and other municipalities. Position of capital city of Prague. Municipalities with authorized municipal authority and municipality with extended competences. Spatial bases of “kraj”. Citizenship in municipality and “kraj”. Cooperation between municipalities and “kraj” and their forms.
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10. Competence and organization of regional self-government. Independent and delegated competence, its characteristics and relations. Basic competence of municipalities. Basic competence of “kraj”. Municipal authorities. Authorities of “kraj”. Control and supervision of state and of “kraj” in relation to municipalities. Control and supervision of state in relation to “kraj”. 11. European administrative law. European Charter of local government. Right for a good governance. 12. Legal acts, application of Administrative judicial system.
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13. Development and contemporary situation of political map of world. State as a part of socio-economic geography studies, basic characteristics of state, historical development of state formation, state as a political-economic system. 14. General characteristics of world economy geography. Economic organization and primary activity, natural resources and economic growth. Position of Czech Republic in world economy. 15. Methods and techniques of socio-economic and administrative geography – basic approaches, quantitative methods, representative analyses etc. Methods and techniques of economic-cartographic analyses. 16. Theory of regions. Development of theories and conceptions of regions. Structure of regions – homogenous and heterogeneous regions. Order and hierarchy of regions. Boarders of regions. 17. Regionalization. Typology of regions, economic and administrative regions. Administrative and purpose regions. Purpose and administrative regionalization of Czech republic, NUTS. 18. Theory of innovation diffusion. Basic types, growth of innovation in time, waves of innovation, barriers to innovations. 19. Spatial differentiation of population and overall characteristics of regional concentration of population, spatial characteristics of population and migration, world population development and its structural trends. 20. Structure of settlement. Basic elements of settlement. Development of settlement structure, influence of socio-economic and natural conditions on seat creation. Classification of municipalities. Country and temporary settlement. 21. Concentration of population in towns. Creation and development of towns. Points of view, criteria of town definitions, town functions. Spatial settlement system creation. Urbanization. 22. Regional structures of production. Principles of spatial organization of agriculture. Basic characteristics of contemporary world agriculture. Regional structures of industry, industrial junctions and regions, sector structure of industry, factors for localization, inertia of industrial development, concentration and localization of industry. Development and contemporary trends in world industrial production. 23. Traffic and connection of junctions and regions. Classification and types of traffic and communication networks. Contemporary trendy in world traffic.
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24. Regional structures for tourism and recreation, services and retail. Individual recreation as a new phenomena for 21st century and its economic and regional importance. International tourism. Market roles for creation of spatial supporting system. Territory and commodity structure of foreign trade. 25. Centre-periphery world order. Europe in socio-economic overview, north American region, Latin America, Asia-Pacific region of the future, underdeveloped countries and world geopolitical situation. 26. Integration, disintegration and globalization processes in contemporary world. Spatial point of view of world economy and economic development. Classification of world states. 27. European Union and its institutional framework, EU institutions, its functions and operation, regions, euroregions. 28. Regional economic structure. Economic structure and regional development level indicators and its evaluations. 29. Teorie lokalizace (přístupy von Thünena, Webera, Isarda atd., klasické, moderní; vliv vědy a globalizace na lokalizaci). 30. Regional economic theories I. Theory of spatial equilibrium, conceptions of W. Christaller and A. Lösch and their impacts on regional development economic theories. Theory of regional multiplicator. 31. Regional economic theories II. Neoclassical and neoliberal approach to spatially economic analyses; neokeynesian approach towards regional growth disparities; theory of export base, theory of sector base, theory of cumulative causes, theory of regional economic base, theory of polarized development; institutional economics and new growth theories for spatial analyses. 32. Spatial economic structure. Firm localization, localization factors. Localization of inhabitants, theory of human capital. 33. Regional economic level. Basic factors for the regional economic level. 34. Theoretic and analytic approaches concerning the evaluation of regional employment and unemployment 35. Efficiency of towns and municipalities, regional and agglomeration factors of localization, internal savings, agglomeration savings, agglomeration loss and additional cots, optimal size of towns and municipalities. 36. Regional budgets and financing. Economics of municipal property, its financing. 37. Reasons for introduction of regional policy. Definition and development of regional policy. Reasons for existence of regional policy (economic, ecological, political and social). 38. Conceptions of regional policy (traditional, modern, accelerated). Regional policy instruments (microeconomic, macroeconomic, others). 39. Regional policy and its importance for the European integration, its position within the economic policy of the EU, economic and social cohesion. EU regional policy (EU economic and social cohesion policy) development, differences in individual programming periods.
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40. EU regional and structural policy (cohesion policy) principles. Objectives of EU regional and structural policy; general long-term objectives, specific objectives and Community initiatives in individual programming periods; programming period 20072013. 41. EU regional policy instruments. EU structural funds – European regional development fund, European social fund, Cohesion fund – objectives, supported areas and activities. Role of European investment bank in EU regional policy. 42. Urban development support in programming period 2007-2013. European Agricultural Fund for Urban Development. 43. Legislative and institutional framework of regional and structural policy. Programming and procedures applied in the EU regional and structural policy. Preparation and implementation of the programmes. 44. Current situation, main trends and problems concerning the regional development in Czech republic. Legislative framework of regional policy in Czech republic (laws concerning the regional development, municipal and regional governance). 45. Institutional structure for regional policy implementation in Czech republic. Supported regions in Czech republic – types of supported regions (indicators used for selection of supported regions). Regional development support in Czech republic given from the EU. 46. Programme documents of regional policy in Czech republic – types of programmes, Regional development strategy of Czech republic, operational programmes. 47. Development programmes of municipalities and regions – reasons for the programme preparation, its structure (socio-economic analyses, SWOT analyses, strategic objectives, priorities, implementation, financial framework etc.). 48. Conception of local development and its economic application. Local economic development, its typology, key factors, its evaluation. Importance of local factors – locally stimulating conditions. Concept of multi-dimensional development, its typology and importance for local and regional planning. Resource basis evaluation for the multi-dimensional development. External function of regions and local areas. Problem concerning the utility comparisons in development strategies. Priority analyses concerning the resource allocation. Options for evaluations of regional plans. Literature: AGNEW, J., KNOX, P.: The Geography of the World Economy. London: Arnold. 2004. ISBN 0-340807121. ARMSTRONG, H., TAYLOR, J.: Regional Economics and Policy. Philip Allan, Oxford, 1985. COLE, J.: Geography of the World's Major Regions. Routledge. 1996. De BLIJ, H. J., MUPHY, A. B.: Human geography: culture, society, and space. 7th ed. New York : John Wiley & Sons. 2003. 555 s. ISBN 0-471-44107-4. GOODALL, B.: Dictionary of Human Geography. 1990. 0-14-051095-8. HAGGETT, P.: Geography: a global synthesis. 1st pub. Harlow : Prentice Hall. 2001. 833 s. ISBN 0-582-32030-5.
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