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Constitutional and Legal Aspects of the Development of the Party System in Chzechoslovakia after 1989
Nosek, Jakub ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Marková, Klára (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on democratic transition and forming of pluralist political system at the federal level of Czechoslovak federal state which took its start during so called velvet revolution in November 1989 and meant rejection of previous not competitive model of one party rule which did not accepted real opposition and have only tolerated satellite political parties to Communist party of Czechoslovakia, that did not opposed its monopolist model of government. After fell of the communist regime gradually emerged and crystalized a pluralist party system. First part of this thesis is focused on theory of democratic transition and consolidation subsequently there is space dedicated to the theory of political parties and party systems. Second part is single case study dedicated to description of the Czechoslovak transition with regard to theoretical concepts of the theory of democratic transition and consolidation and through content analysis of relevant laws and constitutional laws are observed emergence and subsequent forming of pluralist party system at the federal level of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Šumava National Park and Interests of its Municipalities: The Case of Postmaterial Cleavages?
Musilová, Karolína ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The diploma thesis Šumava National Park and Interests of its Municipalities: The Case of Postmaterial Cleavages? analyses, if the postmaterial cleavage is present in the case of Šumava National Park and how is it projected on the national level. Since the very beginning, there have been argues about the notion of the national park, where two different set of ideas collide. On the one hand, there are local municipalities which depend on incomes from tourism, on the other hand, the environmentalists seek for growing extent of areas without any human intervention. The theoretical background is based on concept of cleavages by S. Rokkan and S.M. Lipset. Special attention is paid to the postmaterial dimension of the cleavage, which was evolved by R. Inglehart. The analytical part consists of case study, which examines the attitudes of the stakeholders. The examination is based on semi-structured interviews with mayors, official documents and media coverage of the topic. According to the findings, there is a cleavage, which is visible on all levels of political system, including political parties and presidents.
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Political Participation of National Minorities in the Czech Repbulic
Větrovec, Lukáš ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Charvát, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the political participation of national minorities in the Czech Republic. The main aim of this thesis is to find out what the possibilities of national minorities are to enter the political process in order to articulate their specific minority interests and how effective these possibilities are from their perspective. The emphasis is placed on ethnic political parties, minority interest groups, advisory bodies such as the Government Council for National Minorities and committees for national minorities at all political levels. At the same time, these selected minority institutions and bodies are also examined at the international level, which makes it possible to gain an overview of the attitudes of some states to national minority policy and their comparison, or even inspiration for the Czech Republic. The analysis was carried out on a group of five national minorities: German, Polish, Roma, Slovak and Vietnamese. The author also tried to find out how these selected national minorities are politically active, what factors influence their political participation and what is the interest in the issue of national minorities among the majority political parties. The author chose a qualitative research method for the research project and the technique of...
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Václav Havel, Politician and Intellectual: The Idea of Non-Political Politics
Jelínek, Jiří ; Franěk, Jakub (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
Non-political politics, ergo an alternative approach to the classical politics of power engineering, is one of the major philosophical themes of Václav Havel. Havel is placing this concept against the communist post-totalitarian regime, which forces the society to live in ideological lies. This post- totalitarian regime claims the absolute control over the society, its behavior and thinking, by which it suppresses natural identity of every man. Solution to this situation is the life in truth, integral part of the non-political politics. The life in truth is a defence against lies of the regime and it allows people to preserve their identity. Post-totalitarian regime in its core seek to control everything and cannot ignore such existential mutiny. It attempts to suppress it and thus making dissidents its political oposition. Dissidents only declare truth by which they obtain respect of western countries and consequently some influence over the communist regime. Havel is further developping this concept since 70's into separate approach to the politics in general, which makes it still current even nowadays. Although the possible naivety, this concept definitely played its role as we can see on Charter 77, which became the first swallow of freedom in the normalization Czechoslovakia.
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Transforming of Executive Coalitions in Prague in the Electoral Period 2010-2014
Horký, Miroslav ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Říchová, Blanka (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis Transforming of Executive Coalitions in Prague in the Electoral Period 2010 - 2014 is to analyze influences, which have an important role in a process of establishing executive coalitions and also in their stability. The analysis is based on a classical theory of coalitions, discursive analysis, interviews with direct participants and on official documents. One of the aims is to describe the level of possibility in application of theoretical concepts of coalition theory in the area of Prague's political system. There are many points of view, from which we look at stability and forming of coalitions. For example, very important point of view is an influence of making and implementing politics or an influence of politicians from national level. A big importance is focused on negotiating between participants, their statements in media and their real steps and decisions. The intention of this thesis is not an invention of general model which should be applied on similar local system, but to explain and describe the uniqueness of Prague local system and the election period of 2010 - 2014.
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Direct Mayor Elections in Europe
Švadlenková, Michaela ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The master's thesis "Direct election of mayors in the European experience" is dealing with the direct election of mayors, which is being used in more than a half of the European countries. The focus of the thesis is the trend and the impacts of the direct election of mayors. The purpose is to find out, if the direct election of mayors causes an increase in the voter's turnout, if there are cases of divided majorities under the direct election of mayors and if those are causing issues with the system functioning. Lastly, if the direct election of mayors is a trend which is going to spread into further countries. The first theoretical part deals with the phenomenon of the direct election of mayors, the leadership theories at the local level, typologies of local systems and brings a theoretical basis for the analysis of the voter turnout and divided majorities. The second part contains an overview of the European countries according to the direct or indirect method of voting for their mayors and also case studies of chosen countries. In the cases of England, Norway, Croatia, Poland, Italy, Austria and Germany the voter turnout, the frequency of divided majorities and the functioning of a system under divided majorities is analyzed. The analysis is based on the primary primary data, existing research and the...
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Parliamentary elections in Slovakia in 2016: Analysis of the causes of election results and post-election negotiations
Trojanová, Tereza ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
Cílem práce je analyzovat příčiny výsledků parlamentních voleb na Slovensku konaných v teoretické části práce je na základě Ústavy SR nejprve popsán průběh sestavování vlády. Dále je prostor věnován důrazem na koaliční vládnutí, teo následujících voleb totiž měla na základě vývoje průzkumu voličských preferencí vzejít právě koaliční vláda. Důležitou součást tvoří také olebního systému, které značně ovlivňují politickou soutěž. nějž navazuje vývoj a podoba stranického systému na Slovensku. Následující část volební kampaně a předvolebních možnostech sestavení vlády. Samotné výsledky voleb jsou poté analyzovány zejména ve snaze nalézt příčiny klesající SD a obecně tradičních stran, propadu strany #Sieť a posílení povolebního rokování tvoří závěrečný úsek práce, v němž jsou srovnány předvolební a povolební rétoriky politiků stran, které spolu posléze vytvořily
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Scottish National Party after 1999
Modlitbová, Jitka ; Říchová, Blanka (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The aim of this paper is to analyse the development of the Scottish National Party and to try to outline its future. The method used in this case study is process tracing. The paper is based particularly on Scottish Parliament election results, on the changes of the leader of the SNP, on the election campaign and manifesto of the SNP and its perception in the Scottish media. The author makes the conclusion that the party leader and the election manifesto are the main causes of the SNP election success.
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Public Media Ownership as an Instrument of Political Contest
Nováková, Iveta ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
The connection between world of media and world of politics is unchallengeable. Every politician wants to show himself in the best way in front of the electors. It is understandable that they care about how they are presented in media. There is one opportunity how politicians could influence the media content - they could control part of the media market. And that could be a potential problem. There are many countries which solve this question in recent few years and Czech Republic is not an exception. Andrej Babiš is the chairman of Czech political party ANO and founder of supra-national company Agrofert. He bought one of the biggest and most influence media groups in Czech Republic MAFRA in 2013 (MAFRA contains for example the website iDNES.cz and newspaper Mladá Fronta DNES). Since that time many people talk about Babiš's conflict of interests, which is unacceptable for many politicians, experts and also for many citizens. The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse Czech political scene related with this topic. Theoretical part enables the higher orientation in the world of media and it also provides the information that is necessary for the analytic part of the thesis. On the other side the analytic part concentrates on the Czech Republic and it analyses the specific situation in Czech...
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