Citizenship and Democracy
In Citizenship and Democracy we investigate how individual psychological and social factors reflect on citizen participation, on young people’s political attitudes and on inter-group attitudes. We are interested in how a person shapes their relationship with democracy, trust in other people and institutions and the sense of one’s influence on societal situation. We also examine differences between young people from majority and minority groups, and the role of the new media or citizenship socialization in the school environment.
Projects
Psychological processes linking civic engagement to well-being
The project aims to describe how civic involvement/engagement in young adulthood can strengthen or weaken well-being (a feeling of personal contentment closely linked to the quality of life). By civic engagement, we mean individual and collective activities aimed at achieving change or helping in the public sphere. They can include a wide range of activities from volunteering to political protest or participation in traditional politics.
Seznam publikací projektu
Total number of publications: 4
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System justification as a buffer against perceived threats Year: 2024, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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The Effect of Civic Engagement on Different Dimensions of Well-Being in Youth : A Scoping Review Adolescent Research Review, year: 2024, volume: neuveden, edition: neuveden, DOI
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Psychological processes linking civic engagement to well-being Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Revisiting collective narcissism: sense of community, civic identity, EUpartisanship, and well-being Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
Enlightened trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance – conditions, effects and remedies (TRUST)
This project aims to address trust and distrust in governance in the European context by focusing on three axes. First, it considers trust and distrust as distinct, equally relevant and mutually interrelated dimensions of the relations between citizens and various governance actors. Second, the proposal looks at trust and distrust and their complex interrelations as collective phenomena that are created and reproduced through practices, contestation, negotiation, interpretations between various actors across different societal arenas or fields. Third, the proposal takes account of the complexity of trust/distrust relations by taking a differential look at the various targets of trust and distrust situated at different levels of aggregation and in various arenas.
Project Period
2/2020 - 1/2024
Researchers
prof. PhDr. Petr Macek, CSc.
Bc. et Bc. Patrik Rudolf
Bc. Andrea Sandanusová
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Šerek, Ph.D.
Mgr. Lenka Štěpánková, Ph.D.
Cooperating Organization
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
University of Belgrade, Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory
List of Publications
Total number of publications: 13
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Impact of Respectful Decision-making by Authorities on (Dis)Trust across Early to Late Adolescents in Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, and Serbia Year: 2024, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Mapping the Foundations of Institutional Trust and Distrust from Adolescents to Adults in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis Perspective Year: 2024
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“That’s how the trust began” : Forming trusting friendships from adolescence to adulthood Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, year: 2024, DOI
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Different cognitive appraisals of the Covid-19 pandemic by three adolescent age groups from the Czech Republic Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Difficulties, uncertainty, and opportunity : The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic by early to late adolescence in the Czech Republic Social and Personality Psychology Compass, year: 2023, volume: 17, edition: 10, DOI
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Důvěra a nedůvěra ve společenské institucea jejich rozhodování Year: 2023
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Důvěra v autority a instituce : prezentace a diskuze výsledků Year: 2023, type: Workshop
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Integrated report on the Psychological Insights into Trust/Distrust : Deliverable 5.2 Year: 2023
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The development of (dis)trust in interpersonal relationships : From essentialist reasoning to complexity Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Trust across the development : A mixed-methods study of institutional and interpersonal (dis)trust Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
Psychological determinants of perceived democratic legitimacy
The concept of democracy encompasses a variety of decision-making procedures (e.g., direct vote, decision of elected representatives, deliberation-based consensus) that might put emphasis on different, often conflicting, principles (e.g., majority rule vs. minority rights). This project aims to broaden our understanding of factors leading people to perceive some democratic procedures and principles as being more legitimate than others. Building on recent developments in social and political psychology, we aim to examine particularly the roles of implicit cognition (i.e. implicit attitudes and conceptions of democracy), social identity, threat, and personal involvement.
Project Period
1/2018 - 12/2020
Researchers
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Šerek, Ph.D.
Mgr. Lucie Lomičová
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Macháčková, Ph.D.
Mgr. Zuzana Scott, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Dana Seryjová Juhová
List of Publications
Total number of publications: 7
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How Citizens Evaluate the Legitimacy of Direct Vote and Representation-Based Decision-Making : Findings From the Focus Groups on Adoption of the Euro and Acceptance of Refugees Journal of Social and Political Psychology, year: 2023, volume: 11, edition: 1, DOI
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How a direct vote and public deliberation contribute to the legitimacy of political decision-making : examining situational and individual-level moderators Acta Politica, year: 2022, volume: 57, edition: 4, DOI
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The legitimizing roles of respectful treatment and direct democracy in collective decision-making : A school-based study Journal of Applied Social Psychology, year: 2022, volume: 52, edition: 2, DOI
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What reduces support for civil liberties : Authoritarianism, national identity, and perceived threat Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, year: 2021, volume: 21, edition: 1, DOI
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Who does not protect democracy? : Examining the role of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation Personality and Individual Differences, year: 2021, volume: 181, edition: October, DOI
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Adolescents’ transitions between different views on democracy : Examining individual-level moderators Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, year: 2020, volume: 66, edition: January-February, DOI
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The Effect of Media and Political Beliefs and Attitudes on Trust in Political Institutions : A Multilevel Analysis on Data from 21 European Countries Communication Today, year: 2020, volume: 11, edition: 2
Constructing Active Citizenship with European Youth: Policies, practices, challenges and solutions (CATCH-EyoU)
This project will investigate young people’s views on the EU and their social and political engagement as “active EU citizens”. We focus on “active EU citizenship” as a guiding concept, which we conceptualize, differently than previous approaches (cf. Hoskins, 2006; Hoskins & Mascherini, 2009) as including both “psychological” citizenship (composed of dimensions such as EU identity, sense of belonging and trust in the EU, among the others) and participatory practices in formal and informal contexts at different levels (EU, national, regional, local) through which citizenship is enacted.
Project Period
9/2015 - 11/2018
Researchers
Mgr. et Mgr. Alena Macková
doc. Mgr. Jakub Macek, Ph.D.
Mgr. Zuzana Scott, Ph.D.
Mgr. Johana Kotišová, Ph.D.
prof. PhDr. Petr Macek, CSc.
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Šerek, Ph.D.
Mgr. Lucie Lomičová
Cooperating Organization
Università di Bologna & Forum Nazionale dei Giovani
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
List of Publications
Total number of publications: 28
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Adolescents’ Patterns of Citizenship Orientations and Correlated Contextual Variables: Results From a Two-Wave Study in Five European Countries Youth & Society, year: 2021, volume: 53, edition: 8, DOI
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National and European Identity Formation : A Longitudinal Cross-National Comparison Study Identity : An International Journal of Theory and Research, year: 2021, volume: 21, edition: 1, DOI
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When Facebook Is (Not) Enough : Hybridity in the Media and Political Strategies of Leftist Youth Organisations Youth Active Citizenship in Europe : Ethnographies of Participation, year: 2020, number of pages: 29 s.
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Citizenship’s tangled web : Associations, gaps and tensions in formulations of European youth active citizenship across disciplines Youth Citizenship and the European Union, edition: Vyd. 1st ed., year: 2019, number of pages: 20 s.
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Contextual moderators of the link between national and European identity among European youth Journal of Youth Studies, year: 2019, volume: 22, edition: 4, DOI
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Trust in alternative and professional media : The case of the youth news audiences in three European countries. Youth Citizenship and the European Union, edition: Vyd. 1st ed., year: 2019, number of pages: 15 s.
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Apathy or alienation? Political passivity among youths across eight European Union countries European Journal of Developmental Psychology, year: 2018, volume: 15, edition: 3, DOI
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Being both – A European and a national citizen? Comparing young people’s identification with Europe and their home country across eight European countries European Journal of Developmental Psychology, year: 2018, volume: 15, edition: 3, DOI
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Citizenship’s tangled web : Associations, gaps and tensions in formulations of European youth active citizenship across disciplines European Journal of Developmental Psychology, year: 2018, volume: 15, edition: 3, DOI
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Sociální studia. Vol. 15, no. 2 : Youth Public and Political Year: 2018, type:
Determinants of the growth of extremism and populism in times of economic crisis
The project focuses on increasing the electoral support of extremist and populist parties, which became visible (at least in the media) in parallel with the global economic crisis. Therefore, the project will be to verify the extent to which and how the financial crisis has affected the rise in electoral support of extremist and populist parties. The analysis will focus on the European Union's member states in the relevant period 2008-2014 and reflect the years preceding it. There are indications that the economic crisis has only become a tool for exposing deeper tensions within European society that are longer-term. Therefore, the project will use not only the knowledge of economics but also other social sciences. It will bring together scientists from three faculties of Masaryk University (ESF, PrF, FSS) and five scientific disciplines necessary for studying this issue (economics, political science, law, social psychology, and sociology).
Project Period
3/2015 - 12/2017
Researchers
Faculty of Economics and Administration
prof. Ing. Antonín Slaný, CSc.
Ing. Jitka Doležalová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Hana Fitzová, Ph.D.
Faculty of Law
JUDr. Kateřina Uhlířová, Ph.D., LL.M
prof. JUDr. Marek Fryšták, Ph.D.
Faculty of Social Studies
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Vlastimil Havlík, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Petra Mlejnková, Ph.D.
Mgr. Zuzana Scott, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Šerek, Ph.D.
Mgr. Michal Šindelář
PhDr. Michal Vašečka, Ph.D.
List of Publications
Total number of publications: 33
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And What About Siblings? A Longitudinal Analysis of Sibling Effects on Youth’s Intergroup Attitudes Journal of Youth and Adolescence, year: 2018, volume: 47, edition: 2, DOI
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Economic factors determining the electoral success of far-right and far-left parties in the EU countries Society and Economy In Central and Eastern Europe, year: 2017, volume: 39, edition: 1, DOI
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Economic performance, institutions, and electoral support of far-right and far-left parties at regional level Year: 2017, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Kulatý stůl k extremismu Year: 2017, type: Workshop
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Obavy a nejistota jako příčiny netolerance v současném světě? Výsledky z evropských výzkumných šetření Year: 2017, type:
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Radicalisation in Czech prisons : empowering of prison staff as “must” for effective facing the issue Year: 2017, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Sociocultural legacies in post-transition societies in Central and Eastern Europe and the relationship to the resurgence of right-wing extremism and populism in the region Political Populism : A Handbook, edition: Vyd. 1st ed., year: 2017, number of pages: 11 s.
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Valence and protest: The Rise of Anti-Establishment Parties in the Czech Republic Year: 2017, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Cleavages, protest or voting for hope? The rise of new populist parties in the Czech Republic Year: 2016, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Competence and hope: Voting for populist parties in the Czech Republic Year: 2016, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
Psychological aspects of adolescents´ civic development
Proposed project aims to examine psychological processes and characteristics underlying the formation of civic orientations and behavior among adolescents (age 14-17). The main focus is on the experiences from proximal social contexts, particularly school, family and peer groups. Longitudinal study will enable us to examine these effects among middle and late adolescents. The project will utilize established survey methods to capture these effects in adolescents as nested in their classrooms, as well as qualitative interviews that will explore different understandings of citizenship among youth. Additionally, the role of adolescents’ individual characteristics, which can produce diverse responses to the context, will be acknowledged. The outcomes will deepen knowledge on everyday (not explicitly political) factors that shape young people’s civic development. Such design will allow the authors to formulate both theoretical and practical implications.
List of Publications
Total number of publications: 12
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Tolerance more than equality? Two facets of tolerance towards immigrants among Czech adolescents European Journal of Developmental Psychology, year: 2020, volume: 17, edition: 5, DOI
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Our Democracy : Czech Adolescents Talk About the Meaning of Democracy and Attitudes Toward Immigrants Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, year: 2019, volume: 19, edition: 1, DOI
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Role of school climate and personality in the development of Czech adolescents’ political self-efficacy Applied Developmental Science, year: 2019, volume: 23, edition: 3, DOI
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Občanské postoje a participace u adolescentů žijících v dětských domovech Sociální práce, year: 2018, volume: 18, edition: 3
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Who crosses the norms? Predictors of the readiness for non-normative political participation among adolescents Journal of Adolescence, year: 2018, volume: 62, edition: January, DOI
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Attitudes toward ingroups versus outgroups as unique distinctions between political trust and generalized social trust : A study of ethnically diverse youth in the Czech Republic Československá psychologie, year: 2017, volume: 61, edition: 5
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Does ‘clicking’ matter? The role of online participation in adolescents’ civic development Cyberpsychology : Journal of psychosocial research on cyberspace, year: 2017, volume: 11, edition: 4, DOI
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Noví mladí Masaryci? Podpora demokracie a jejích principů u českých adolescentů Sociologický časopis, year: 2017, volume: 53, edition: 2, DOI
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The Chicken or Egg Question of Adolescents’ Political Involvement : Longitudinal Analysis of the Relation Between Young People’s Political Participation, Political Efficacy, and Interest in Politics Zeitschrift für Psychologie, year: 2017, volume: 225, edition: 4, DOI
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The role of adolescents’ need for cognition in the formation of their sociopolitical attitudes within families and schools Year: 2016, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
Processes influencing democratic ownership and participation (PIDOP)
This project will examine the processes which influence democratic ownership and participation in eight European states. It will draw on the disciplines of Politics, Sociology, Social Policy, Psychology and Education to examine macro-level contextual factors (including historical, political, electoral, economic and policy factors), proximal social factors (including familial, educational and media factors) and psychological factors (including motivational, cognitive, attitudinal and identity factors) which facilitate and/or inhibit civic and political engagement and participation.
Project Period
5/2009 - 4/2012
Researchers
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Šerek, Ph.D.
prof. PhDr. Ing. Ondřej Císař, Ph.D.
Mgr. Kateřina Vráblíková, Ph.D.
Cooperating Organization
The Queen's University of Belfast
Universidade do Porto
Faculdade de Psicologia Uni Porto
Université de Liege
Universita di Bologna
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
University of Surrey
Örebro universitet
Ankara Universitesi
List of Publications
Total number of publications: 0
