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Population Policies - MD360P15R
Title: Populační politika
Czech title: Populační politika
Guaranteed by: Department of Demography and Geodemography (31-360)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:combined
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Level: specialized
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : MD360P15, MD360P15N
Is incompatible with: MD360P15
Annotation -
The relationship between population and family policy. Links to the population theory and population climate research. Definition of population policy with respect to various demographic processes such as mortality, fertility and migration. The history of population policy in the world and in Czechoslovakia. Current trends in family policy in the Czech Republic in the context of EU policy. World population conferences after World War II and family planning programmes.
Last update: KOC@NATUR.CUNI.CZ (29.10.2019)
Literature -

Recommended literature:

Henricson, C. A Revolution in Family Policy. Where we should go from here. The Policy Press. UK. 2012.

May, J. F. World Population Policies. Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact. Springer. 2012.

Takayama, N., Werding, M. Fertility and Public Policy. How to Reverse the Trend of Declining Birth Rates. CESifo Seminar Series. The MIT Press. UK. 2011.

Demeny, P. Population Policy: A Concise Summary. Working paper No. 173. Population Council, New York. 2003.

Gauthier, A. H. The State and the Family. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1996.

Kocourková, J. Populační klima a rodinná politika v České republice po roce 1989 v evropském kontextu. Disertační práce. PřF UK. 2006. Doporučená studijní literatura:

Kamerman, S. B., Moss, P. (eds.) The politics of parental leave policies. Children, parenting, gender and the labour market. The Policy Press. 2009.

Wall, K., Deven, F. Family Policy in Council of Europe Member States. Council of Europe. 2009.

Last update: Janáková Kuprová Barbora, RNDr., Ph.D. (23.12.2019)
Requirements to the exam -

Links: World Population Development, Population Development of the Czech Republic. Population theory.

Credit conditions: Active participation in on-line seminars, presentation of two contributions on selected topics and successful completion of two assigned tasks.

Exam: Written test. Obtaining the credit is a condition for admission to the exam.

Last update: Kocourková Jiřina, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (05.10.2022)
Syllabus -

Sylabus is available in Czech.

Last update: Janáková Kuprová Barbora, RNDr., Ph.D. (28.10.2019)
 
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