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Value Orientation of "Democracy Today and Tomorrow" by Edvard Beneš.
Broklová, Eva
The work Democracy Today and Tomorrow by Edvard Beneš has a theoretical nature, it is meant neither for practical politics or as directions for "popular democracy". Its value orientation is democratic. Democracy in a broader sense, including political, social and economic aspects, perceives as "humanistic" democracy, not "socializing" as some authors claim. The work promotes individual and civic freedoms against national a state totalitarianism. He considered the conditions on which the cooperation between democracy and the Communists would be possible. As the main objective of democracy he perceived the strengthenning its social aspects, called economic.
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Founding values of Czech Society – the state of research
Broklová, Eva
Six studies on founding values of Czech modern society between the end of the 19th century and the mid1900 investigate the nature of Czech political culture. The findings indicate that shared political values are prevailingly democratic. Consequently, they support the thesis that the nature of the first Republic and its society was democratic.
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Sokol and the Relevance of Its Democratic Tradition
Neudorflová, Marie
The sport organization Sokol was built till the end of the 1930s on pozitive values relating the healthy life-style, cultivation of individual character, and responsible attitudes to society. These values had been very relevant to the advancement of democracy and democratic political culture in Czech society. Considering the present deficit of cultivating democratic values and skills, the renewed Sokol and its tradition seems to be undervalued possibility for the advancement of national integrity as a condition for a functionning democracy.
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National Identity and Integrity in the Context of Democracy
Neudorflová, Marie
Democracy as a political system serving common good can be successfully established only in society with rooted identity, considerably integrated on a number of levels, advanced sufficiently to share values and practices realted to democracy. For that reason and on the basis of historical experience, a nation-state seems to be still the most suitable entity for establishing and maintaining a functional democracy. Entities less integrated face a number of extra problems when trying to maintain a democracy.
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