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Interview for Hlídací pes on the upcoming Czech presidential elections, December 15, 2017. Read here.
Media overview of the excellent conference on the Velvet Divorce at Anglo-American University in E15.cz, December 2, 2017. Read here.
Interview for Radio Prague on Czech politics and educational inequality, January 30, 2017. Read here.
Interview for Ego!, Hospodářské noviny, November 25, 2016. Read here.
“Průzkum: Děti, které se nehlásí na gymnázia, ztrácejí sebedůvěru.” MF Dnes, April 18, 2016. (About our research on self-confidence in Czech schools with Miroslava Federičová and Filip Pertold). Read here.
“Jak se mění společnost? Rozsáhlý výzkum hledá, jak zlepšit život Čechů.” MF Dnes, October 17, 2015. (About the first wave of the Czech Household Panel Study we conducted in 2015). Read here.
Michael L. Smith, “The Czech Experience with Party Funding. How to Stop the Money Oligarchs?” Eurointegration.com.ua, March 10, 2015. Read here (in Ukrainian).
Michael L. Smith, “Political Corruption in the Czech Republic – and What Awaits Ukraine,” Eurointegration.com.ua, February 20, 2015. Read here (in Ukrainian).
Michael L. Smith, “Pravdy a nepravdy ve sporu o vědecké projekty na podporu excelence v základním výzkumu”. Read here.
“Přímá demokracie z dílny Pata a Mata,” Lidové noviny, January 25, 2014. Read here
“V rozpočtu ODS levituje 54 milionů. I to odhaluje web o stranických kasách”, Czech Television, November 5, 2013. Read story and watch the video here
“Vědci zprůhlednili financování politických stran v Česku. Dali na web i sponzory”. iHned.cz, November 5, 2013. Read here
“Financování stran hlídá nový web. Prozradí dárce i nepřesnosti v účtech.” iDnes.cz, November 5, 2013. Read here.
Michael L. Smith, “The First 100 Days: The Controversial Presidency of Miloš Zeman”, Euro-Atlantic Quarterly, February 2013. Read here
“Michael L. Smith: ‘Český stát nemá peníze na boj s korupcí?'” Literární noviny, January 14, 2013. Read here
“Financování politických stran,” Czech Television, January 13, 2013. Watch the video here
“Ministerstvo vnitra si cení práce expertů na lobbing,” Czech Ministry of Interior, June 9, 2011. Read here
Michael L. Smith, “Scandal in Bohemia” (on Czech higher education), Transitions Online, January 4, 2010. Read here