Jan Holzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4170623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Holzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Holzer |
| SIGNATURE | HOLZER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4142-219X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The speed offset problem
Automated vehicles are widely expected to play a key role in achieving the European Union’s road safety target of ‘Vision Zero’, which aims to eliminate all road fatalities in the European Union by 2050. To achieve this goal, early design strategies for automated vehicles prioritised strict compliance with traffic rules, assuming that rule-abiding behaviour would inherently lead to safer outcomes. Yet rule deviations such as speeding may, counter…
Armed opposition in wartime Russia
The 2020 Belarusian Presidential Election Campaign
Research on Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s communication strategy shows that the ‘performance of crisis’ was a key pillar in his 2020 presidential campaign strategy, with content analysis illuminating populist elements such as tipping points and stigmatisation. The politician actively disseminated the idea of existential threats to sow fear and foster an image of strength, primarily targeting siloviki and incumbents. For the first time, his election cam…
Russia in the Balkans in the 21st century
Following the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, six newly independent countries sought European and Euro-Atlantic integration. The advantageous geographical position and geopolitical importance of the region as a borderland between East and West gained international attention during the Balkan wars. In this period Russia started to consider the region with more interest, relying on its historical, ide…
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin
The article analyses the thinking of the Russian prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, about the current political regime. The analysis considers his personal policy agenda, which is informed by serving in technocratic positions and his ideological positioning within the Russian political elite, as well as the role of the prime minister in Russian politics. Special attention is dedicated to Mishustin’s perception of the invasion of Ukraine and its i…
Euromaidan(s) in Russian Academic Literature
Euromaidan events represented a major political issue for discussion among Russian political analysts. While from a distance the perception in Russian society might seem monolithic, a closer look suggests that Euromaidan events spurred multiple reactions within the population. To demonstrate this, the article describes the different perceptions of Euromaidan in 108 texts published by Russian academics between 2013 and 2018. While analyzing the ar…
Czech Security Dilemma
Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia
Militancy continues to be characteristic of many supporters of the Russian far right, encompassing a belligerent rhetoric, a strong perception of participants as political warriors and often the use of physical violence. How serious a threat does Russian militant right-wing extremism pose to Russia and the World, and how has the level of threat changed over time? This book addresses this question by exploring right-wing extremism in Russia, its h…
Czech Politics
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Czech politics, past and present. The authors not only cover the main political developments of the past two centuries, they also situate the current political system in the context of communist and pre-communist legacies. They argue that amidst the dramatic changes of the Velvet Revolution, one can find a plethora of continuities in culture and institutions that help to explain the shape of Czech …
Challenges to Democracies in East Central Europe
The introductory chapter contextualises the volume in recent research on democratisation and de-democratisation. The authors review the developments during the 1990s and 2000s, from the emphasis on successful transitions to conceptualisations of democratic consolidation in East Central Europe (Beyme, Merkel) to the shift to ‘degreeism’ in assessing the quality of democracy, influenced by recent debates in normative democratic theory. The authors …
Democratisation of Democracy? On the Discontinuity Between Empirical and Normative Theories of Democracy
The article considers the gap that exists between between normative and empirical theories of democracy. Empirical theories usually stop in their aspirations where normative theories get off the ground, that is, they take the model of liberal democracy as their normative horizon. This is a confusing situation especially with regard to the possibilities of enhancing the quality of existing liberal democracies. We argue that a simple recalibration …
Democratisation of Democracy? On the Discontinuity Between Empirical and Normative Theories of Democracy
The article considers the gap that exists between between normative and empirical theories of democracy. Empirical theories usually stop in their aspirations where normative theories get off the ground, that is, they take the model of liberal democracy as their normative horizon. This is a confusing situation especially with regard to the possibilities of enhancing the quality of existing liberal democracies. We argue that a simple recalibration …
Democratisation of Democracy? On the Discontinuity Between Empirical and Normative Theories of Democracy
The article considers the gap that exists between between normative and empirical theories of democracy. Empirical theories usually stop in their aspirations where normative theories get off the ground, that is, they take the model of liberal democracy as their normative horizon. This is a confusing situation especially with regard to the possibilities of enhancing the quality of existing liberal democracies. We argue that a simple recalibration …
Challenges to Democracies in East Central Europe
The introductory chapter contextualises the volume in recent research on democratisation and de-democratisation. The authors review the developments during the 1990s and 2000s, from the emphasis on successful transitions to conceptualisations of democratic consolidation in East Central Europe (Beyme, Merkel) to the shift to ‘degreeism’ in assessing the quality of democracy, influenced by recent debates in normative democratic theory. The authors …
Czech Politics
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Czech politics, past and present. The authors not only cover the main political developments of the past two centuries, they also situate the current political system in the context of communist and pre-communist legacies. They argue that amidst the dramatic changes of the Velvet Revolution, one can find a plethora of continuities in culture and institutions that help to explain the shape of Czech …
Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia
Militancy continues to be characteristic of many supporters of the Russian far right, encompassing a belligerent rhetoric, a strong perception of participants as political warriors and often the use of physical violence. How serious a threat does Russian militant right-wing extremism pose to Russia and the World, and how has the level of threat changed over time? This book addresses this question by exploring right-wing extremism in Russia, its h…
Czech Security Dilemma
Euromaidan(s) in Russian Academic Literature
Euromaidan events represented a major political issue for discussion among Russian political analysts. While from a distance the perception in Russian society might seem monolithic, a closer look suggests that Euromaidan events spurred multiple reactions within the population. To demonstrate this, the article describes the different perceptions of Euromaidan in 108 texts published by Russian academics between 2013 and 2018. While analyzing the ar…
Russia in the Balkans in the 21st century
Following the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, six newly independent countries sought European and Euro-Atlantic integration. The advantageous geographical position and geopolitical importance of the region as a borderland between East and West gained international attention during the Balkan wars. In this period Russia started to consider the region with more interest, relying on its historical, ide…
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin
The article analyses the thinking of the Russian prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, about the current political regime. The analysis considers his personal policy agenda, which is informed by serving in technocratic positions and his ideological positioning within the Russian political elite, as well as the role of the prime minister in Russian politics. Special attention is dedicated to Mishustin’s perception of the invasion of Ukraine and its i…
The 2020 Belarusian Presidential Election Campaign
Research on Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s communication strategy shows that the ‘performance of crisis’ was a key pillar in his 2020 presidential campaign strategy, with content analysis illuminating populist elements such as tipping points and stigmatisation. The politician actively disseminated the idea of existential threats to sow fear and foster an image of strength, primarily targeting siloviki and incumbents. For the first time, his election cam…
The speed offset problem
Automated vehicles are widely expected to play a key role in achieving the European Union’s road safety target of ‘Vision Zero’, which aims to eliminate all road fatalities in the European Union by 2050. To achieve this goal, early design strategies for automated vehicles prioritised strict compliance with traffic rules, assuming that rule-abiding behaviour would inherently lead to safer outcomes. Yet rule deviations such as speeding may, counter…
Armed opposition in wartime Russia
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (3 works)