Mgr. Jan Kohoutek, Ph.D.

Monographs

• Nekola M., Hejzlarová E., Kohoutek J., Dobiášová K., Jelínková M., Jeřábková A., Kotrusová M., Novotný V., Procházka M., Smolík P., Vlčková K., Wolfová V., & Mouralová M. (2020). Česká veřejná politika optikou teorie sociální konstrukce cílových populací. Karolinum.

Chapters in monographs

• Kohoutek J., & Nekola M. (2020). Policy Outcomes and Effects in Higher Education. Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions (pp. 2271-2277).
• Kohoutek J., Nekola M., & Veselý A. (2018). Policy work and its significance for public policy. Handbook on Policy, Process and Governing (pp. 253-271).
• Veselý A., Kohoutek J., & Štech S. (2016). New Public Management in Czech education : From the side road to the highway?. New Public Management and the Reform of Education : European lessons for policy and practice (pp. 127-140).
• Nekola M., & Kohoutek J. (2017). Policy formulation as policy work: developing options for government. Handbook of Policy Formulation (pp. 39-62).

Articles

• Kohoutek J. (2010). Studying Policy Implementation in Higher Education : Higher Education Development Fund and Development Programmes as Two Implementation Instruments for Assuring Quality of Czech Higher Education. Central European Journal of Public Policy, 4(2), 64-87.
• Kohoutek J., & Nekola M. (2021). Politicisation of the Czech Republic's ministries: still trailing behind the West?. East European Politics, 37(3), 514-533. UT-WOS link
• Kohoutek J., & Nekola M. (2016). Politizace pracovníků ministerstev v České republice dle pracovních pozic: současná teorie a praxe. Sociální studia, 13(3), 85-99.
• Kohoutek J. (2013). Three Decades of Implementation Research in Higher Education: Limitations and Prospects of Theory Development. Higher Education Quarterly, 67(1), 56-79.
• Kohoutek J., Nekola M., & Novotný V. (2013). Conceptualizing Policy Work as Activity and Field of Research. Central European Journal of Public Policy, 7(1), 28-58.
• Nekola M., & Kohoutek J. (2016). Policy work at the sub-national level: Analytical styles of Canadian and Czech directors and managers. Canadian Public Administration, 59(2), 289-309. UT-WOS link

Contributions in the conference proceedings

Educational Policy (JSM685)

Educational policy issues with regard to the higher education sector (e.g. equity of accesss, quality, third mission of universities, students' and graduates' profiles, internationalization)
Policy work and policy workers
Politicization of public administration
Policy design, policy implementation and policy instruments

01/2011-12/2013. Project LLP EU no. 511491-2010-LLP-CZ-KA1-KA1SCR „Identifying barriers in promoting the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance at institutional level and making recommendations as to how these may be adressed“ (IBAR). (investigator)
05/2015-04/2017: The contribution of higher education Institutions to strengthen socio-economic development of peripheral regions in Norway and the Czech Republic. Czech-Norwegian Research Programme (CZ09). ID: 7F14442. (investigator)