Duration: 1.7.2019 - 30.6.2023
Programme: APVV-18-0218

Principal investigator: Ing. Mgr. Miloslav Bahna, PhD.

Project team at the Institute for Sociology of SAS:
Mgr. Jozef Zagrapan, PhD., Mgr. Robert Klobucký, PhD., PhDr. Vladimír Krivý, CSc., Mgr. Milan Zeman, CSc.
PhD students: Mgr. Paula Ivanková, Mgr. Ľubomír Šottník

Project team at FiF UK:
prof. PhDr. Ján Sopóci, PhD., Mgr. Roman Džambazovič, PhD.

Project team at the FSEV UK:
PhDr. Oľga Gyárfášová, PhD.

The project aims to provide answers to the question if comparative analysis can identify enduring similarities between the societies of the former Czechoslovakia a hundred years after its establishment. The means to this end is to continue the participation of Slovakia in the international comparative research programs International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). Stability and change will be analyzed within three contemporary grand narratives of social change as well as within theories identifying changes in the respective areas of society. Participation of Slovakia in the ISSP already since 1995 (since 1992 as a part of the ČSFR) offers the opportunity to analyze the period of the last thirty years. Within the project itself ISSP surveys on social inequality, environment, health and family will be fielded as well as electoral behavior will be analyzed as part of the CSES survey. Further analyses will be carried out on data which became available before or during the course of the project. These will include comparative analysis of ISSP modules on national identity, citizenship, work orientations, role of government, social networks and religion. Surveys carried out within the project will include a series of methodological experiments aimed at evaluating the reliability of measurement and at improving the level of standardization within comparative research. The planned tests under the circumstance of the extraordinary language and cultural closeness of the two ex-Czechoslovak
countries offer an interesting laboratory for measurement invariance testing. Research carried out within the project will also enable the inclusion of Slovakia into contemporary comparative analyses. The successful fielding of the surveys is also a precondition for further participation of the project team in the scientific and thematic heading of the ISSP where they serve as one of the five members of the steering committee.