Thi arcticle sums up the developmnet of public policy as a scientific discipline and as an object of research and instruction in the Czech Republic. This is presented within a historical context (examining different stages of the development of Czech social sciences even before it was formalized, and the development of its being constituted since the early 1990s) with due regard for the broader cultural, political and institutional context of its formation and appliction. A characteristic is given of the main streams of research and instruction in the field (with references to key literature, its authors and context). This is followed by a reflection of results and specification of development potentials., Martin Potůček., and Obsahuje použitou literaturu
There were two or more types of headship succession and inheritance practices in traditional, early modem, Japan, and also within any given village as exhibited in the village studied here. The population of a village, Yukinobu, was a heterogeneous one. In particular, there were clear differences between the dozoku and other families. Even within the dozoku families, the family strategies and inheritance practices varied. Population growth also played a decisive role in determining succession and inheritance practices. Because of this growth, the number of households could increase, and thus the opportunity to thrive would increase for individuals of both sexes insofar as local resources could sustain the population. Females would surely have more favourable survival chances than males if the number of households, and thus the number of opportunities to become housewives were balanced with the number of women in the population. Almost all of the family strategies concerning inheritance practices were shaped by demographic conditions and consequences, and also by economic and natural environmental conditions and changes to those conditions. Together, these sets of conditions promoted a distinctive inheritance system in each village. However, the rules of inheritance patterns were not entirely unique to the village, as they were characterised by the inheritance rules of each family. The existing inheritance rules were not the custom of the village, but were conventions sustained over generations in some families and that survived over time in the village. The inheritance patterns of the village were determined by the characteristics of the family strategies of these surviving families. Therefore, primogeniture as well as equal inheritance practices could exist within a single village.