Nastolování politické agendy: Strategie Římskokatolické církve v ČR

Abstract

In the following text, we describe an interaction between Catholic Church and catholic politicians in the policy agenda setting process in the Czech Republic. We introduce agendasetting theoretical concepts and terms that we intend to apply to the case of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. We use the method of semi-structured interviews for our empirical analysis. We collected eight semi-structured interviews with informants from diff erent strata of the Church structure, and catholic politicians. We describe the way the Church would like to co-operate with catholic politicians. The Czech Catholic Church intends to set policy agenda through inspiring laics active in the top of political hierarchy. We confront this strategy with catholic politicians. We conclude by rejection of strategy based on principle of inspiration. We also suggest revised strategy based on principle of personal effort.