Abstrakt
This chapter addresses the development of policy analysis as science-based policy-related advising in the Czech Republic and the former Czechoslovakia. I attempt here to describe and explain the state of policy analysis in the Czech Republic using a historical overview of Czech policy analysis based on the theoretical supply-demand model (deLeon, 1988; Trent and Stein, 2002).
It is an attempt to grasp the development of Czech policy analysis from science-based policy-related knowledge over professional policy-related work activities during the communist era to the establishment of a specific academic (sub)discipline dealing with policy problem solving after 1989. I emphasise the demand side concerning the social and political factors influencing the development of policy analysis.
First, I examine the roots of Czech policy analysis going back to the beginning of the 20th century and the foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. Then I focus on policy analysis during the communist regime.
In the last section, I consider the development of Czech policy analysis after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and its contemporary state.