Annales Scientia Politica

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Authors: Martin LAČNÝ

The article focuses on mapping the past and contemporary discourse on corporate social responsibility in its various theoretical and practical levels. It reflects the characteristic features of individual-ethical and institutional-ethical paradigm, which vary widely in their starting points, especially when it comes to the overall view of definition of the matter and the subjects of social responsibility. Within this context, the author briefly compares the stockholders theory with the stakeholders theory.

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Authors: Alexander DULEBA

This article aims at identifying a nature of the current Russo-Ukrainian crisis. It argues that the crisis is not accidental and short term episode, but it is necessary and objective outcome displaying long term development trends in and/or of Europe after the end of bipolar conflict. Author backs his argument by comparing different integration dynamics in the Western and Eastern parts of Europe. The collapse of the communist block helped to deepen the integration process in the Western part of Europe and it also pushed the EU to be more engaged in its neighbourhood through offering integration perspective to former communist countries as well as through offering European perspective to the Western Balkans. The Eastern Partnership with the Association Agreement, including Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, has become the EU response on Russia’s military intervention against Georgia in August 2008. The EU failed to establish a joint European project under the name of Common Spaces with Russia (2003-2006), therefore, confrontation between two integration projects in Europe - the one led by the EU and the other one by Russia - has to appear sooner or later.

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Authors: Gilbert FUTÓ

Freedom of religion as a part of broader concept of freedom of conscience is one of the most precious rights held by a civilized men. First Amendment's Establishment Clause of the Constitution of the United States prevents government at least from establishing federal or state religions, discriminating, aiding or favoring one religion over the other and coercing individuals into religious participation. In 1983 the Supreme Court of the United States carved out an exception for opening state legislative session with a prayer. Based on a historical evidence the Court found that unless there is a an indication that the prayer has proselytizing, advancing or disparaging effect, Establishment Clause does not preclude this type of prayer. In 2014 was the same practice upheld on a local government level (town board meetings).

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Authors: Gabriel SZÉKELY

The study analyses a problematic status of the Greek Catholic Church in a political and ideological establishment of the Slovak Republic during 1939 – 1945, as well as the confrontional relationship of both subjects. Slovak Republic – as it is formulated in the Preamble to the Constitution – has identified itself with the (catholic) Christianity, i.e. the concept of National Socialism has originated at the background of a Christian worldview. This ideological construct has adored one (Slovak) nation to indoctrination of a society. Such construct has ultimately led to the discrimination of national minorities, in this case Ruthenian minority, which members has mostly identified with the Greek Catholic confession. In a regime with a close connection of the Catholic Church and the political system there were fluently applicated undemocratic practices which infringed upon internal affaires and operation of the Greek Catholic Church, primarily its educational system (Greek Catholic Seminary and Theological Academy) in the intention to weaken its internal structure and integrity.

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Authors: Anatolij KĽUČKOVIČ

Distinctions of electoral behavior among different regions of Ukraine are analyzed in the article. The election results in the period 1991 – 2012 made it possible to conclude that the fundamental importance of regional factors is present in the system of electoral preferences of citizens. The main reasons and factors of ideological differences among the regions are presented. Main attention is paid on the clarifying the regional polarity of political culture and electoral behavior of citizens according to an axis “east – west”.

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Authors: Наталия A. ШЕСТАК

Describes the index of the effective number of electoral and parliamentary parties. Explained by the peculiarity of their application for the analysis of party systems. In the paper calculated the effective number of parties in the electoral and parliamentary levels for Ukraine after the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 1994, 1998 , 2002, 2006, 2007, 2012.

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Authors: Ľubomír DUNAJ

The European Union is facing new challenges, which it has to solve for its survival. In fact many of them have deeper roots and are at least partially originating in a misconception of European institutions. The economic crises 2008 accelerated the urgency for their solution. This paper focuses on three problems. First, it claims the necessity for a transnationalisation of the debate of social justice. Secondly, it shows that the rigid concept of a state’s sovereignty blocks the possibility to democratise the European institutions. And finally, that predominating Germany can cause the collapse of EU.

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Authors: Helena MELKUSOVÁ

The acceptation of the environmental problems leads people towards the promotion of sustainable development as a mean that could help to overcome the predatory principle in the anthropologically orientated Euroatlantic culture. An important condition to achieve radical changes is to leave behind the consumption lifestyle and to create the mechanisms that will be able to achieve collective interests. This tendency has been shown in the market economy through the institute of Corporate Social Responsibility. This institute is a manifestation of introducing a certain form of the basic moral principles to the economical practice. CSR accepts the compliance not only of ethical standards and principles, but also social, cultural and environmental requirements for its own production.

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Authors: Pavol MARCHEVSKÝ

The submitted work has the ambition to get involved in the present discourse of education in the area of neoliberalism. Referring to the work of J. Habermas Wozu noch Philosophie?, the work attempts to present the topical nature of the legacy of this German sociologist and philosopher in the outlines discourse of neoliberal education. The work also attempts to map and confront opinions of current authors concerning applicability of Habermas’s ideas in the given discourse. The work also focuses on aspects of the discourse in the form of issues related to marketization and public interest in education.