Martin Horák: Success and disappointment
- Where: Vaclav Havel Library, Řetězová 7, Prague
- When: April 24, 2014, 19:00 – 21:00
Democracy and Public Policy in Prague 1990–2000.
This book presentation and debate with the author, a Canadian political scientist of Czech origin, will illuminate the numerous mysteries surrounding the poor performance of the public administration in contemporary Prague. The year 1990 brought a renewal of democratic administration to the city. What followed included numerous dubious decisions and public disillusionment, which Prague is still going through today. Horák arrives at the roots of the current situation via an analysis of the political decisions of the 1990s.
After the fall of communism new political representatives, faced with an unstable political environment, resorted to simple, short-term solutions. Such behavior ingrained problematic political structures and norms in Prague, creating new hard-set interests that it is far from easy to get rid of…
In cooperation with the Karolinum publishing house.