Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:33:36 +0200Jan Hartl: In the early ‘90s even politicians felt they needed to learn from public opinionhttps://english.radio.cz/jan-hartl-early-90s-even-politicians-felt-they-needed-learn-public-opinion-8115189© 2026 Radio Prague International Sociologist Jan Hartl set up Czechoslovakia’s first modern-day polling agency, STEM, in 1990 and has been closely monitoring domestic politics and society ever since. When we spoke, the conversation took in Czech politicians’ shifting attitude to opinion surveys, Václav Havel’s private discussion circle and the “cautious nature” of the country’s voters. But I first asked Mr. Hartl for his standout memories of the Velvet Revolution. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/hartl_jan.jpg?timestamp=1632482874 Jan Hartl: In the early ‘90s even politicians felt they needed to learn from public opinion https://english.radio.cz/jan-hartl-early-90s-even-politicians-felt-they-needed-learn-public-opinion-8115189 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9