Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik

Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik
founded in the year	1999
acronym	CI
City	Bratislava
Country	Slovakia
Website	http://www.institute.sk/
address	Medená 5, 81102; Bratislava
number of employees	12
Networks	Stockholm Network, Atlas Network (Europe), New Direction Foundation, Think Tank
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Climate Change Skeptics, Austerity politics
Last revision	24.09.2016
Presence of Think Tank affiliates in the various fieldsWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows in which fields the affiliates are present. Every presence is counted once.
People n = 10
Presences n = 26
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Kind of activities of Think Tank affiliatesWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows which kind of activities the affiliates conduct. Every presence is counted once.
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Author,1 Leader (CEO etc.),8 Consultant,0 Editor,3 Interviewee,0 Member,7 Participant,1 Lecturer,1 Employee,5 </pPie>

The following coordinate was not recognized: 48.14067;17.11036.The following coordinate was not recognized: 48.14067;17.11036. The Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik (CI) is a conservative think tank that is named after the Slovak general and politician Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880-1990). First statements were released in 2000, among them one document of the character of a founding declaration.

Organizational Structure and Funding

The Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik is a non-profit organization and was set-up as non-investment fund. Its annual budgets for 2009 and 2010 amounted to 131,600€ and 102,600€, respectively.

Address

Medená 5, 81102; Bratislava

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Vladimír Čečetka

• Ján Králik

• Peter Zajac

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Ivan Kuhn

• Peter Gonda

• Ondrej Dostál

• Dušan Sloboda

• Zuzana Humajová

• Radovan Kazda

• Dana Feketeová

• Ľuboš Mikuška

Some of the institute’s staff is aligned to the Institute of Public Affairs Slovakia.

Budget

• Budget 2010: 102,600€

• Budget 2009: 131,600€

Cooperations with Think Tanks

• New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation Network
• European Coalition for Economic Growth
• Hayek Institute
• Austrian Economics Center
• Standing Conference of Civil Institute
• Institute of Economic and Social Studies
• SOCreform
• Center for Economics and Politics (CEP)
• Instytut Sobieskiego
• SOCIA – Foundation to promote social change
• Slovak F.A. Hayek Foundation

Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik

While the section above shows Think Tanks the Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik claims to cooperate with, the list below shows Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik.

• Centre for the Study of Democracy and Culture
• European Coalition for Economic Growth
• New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform

Cooperations with Non-Think Tanks

• http://www.fri.uniza.sk/en
• http://www.ekf.tuke.sk/
• www.itradersclub.sk/
• http://www.ef.umb.sk/
• http://www.euba.sk/
• http://www.vsm.sk/svk/
• http://euserver.parlamentnilisty.cz/default.aspx
• http://euportal.parlamentnilisty.cz/default.aspx
• http://eurabia.parlamentnilisty.cz/default.as
• http://www.impulzrevue.sk/
• http://bratyslawa.msz.gov.pl/en
• www.chroniclesmagazine.org/
• http://www.martinus.sk/knihy/vydavatelstvo/Ideal/
• http://slovakia.usembassy.gov/
• http://en.nhf.euba.sk/
• http://www.velkaepocha.sk/
• www.upn.gov.sk/
• http://www.konzervativci.cz/
• http://www.odm.sk/
• http://www.backorder.sk/subject/INST-0018/owned
• http://www.postoy.sk/
• http://www.kubon-sagner.de
• http://www.tyzden.sk/
• www.etrend.sk/
• www.tasr.sk/
• www.energie-portal.sk/
• www.prave-spektrum.sk/
• http://aktualne.atlas.sk/
• www.infonet.tv/

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

• Foreign and Security Policy
• Enterprise and Industry
• Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
• European Integration
• Maritime affairs and fisheries/Agriculture and rural development
• Environment/Climate Action
• Regional policy
• Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

• Subordinating climate change mitigation to economic interests (Climate Change Skeptics): Two members of the institute signed: The Open Letter to Attendees COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009 - Free Trade, No Climate Taxes! <http://www.institute.sk/article.php?3116> {signatories: Dr. Tomasz Teluk, President, Globalization Institute; Prof. Zbigniew Jaworowski, President, Ecologists for Nuclear Energy; M.A., Eng. Jan Michal Malek, President, Polish-American Foundation for Economic Development (PAFERE), Member of Mont Pèlerin Society; Krystian Dąbek, Vice President and Spokesperson, KoLiber Association; Medeni Sungur, Vice Chair, 3H Movement; Peter Gonda, Economist, Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik; Radovan Kazda, Environmental policy analyst, Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik; Rachel Kania, Social Outreach Manager, Young Americans for Liberty; Doc dr eng. Andrzej Strupczewski, Vice President, Ecologists for Nuclear Energy - SEREN; Dr Tomasz Sommer, Editor and Managing Director "The Times in Now!", weekly; Dr Marcin Masny, Columnist; Arkadiusz Bińczyk, Entrepreneur; Dr Jerzy Polaczek, Editor, "Chemistry Industry Magazine”; Jerzy Majchrzak, President, Polish Chamber of Chemistry Industry; Dr Tim Evans, President, Libertarian Alliance; Hubert Jongen, Entrepreneur; Derek Bernard, Entrepreneur; Jerzy Samborski, President, European Union for Small and Medium Enterprises and Mid-Class Unicorn; Prof. Adam Wielomski, Polish Academy of Science}

• Austerity measures (Austerity Politics): Promoting spending cuts