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Geopolitical topics in Northern Ireland elections
Král, Josef ; Jelen, Libor (advisor) ; Vrhel, Matěj (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is to analyse and interpret the electoral manifestos of several Northern Irish political parties, namely the Democratic Unionist Party, Traditional Unionist Voice, Ulster Unionist Party, Sinn Féin, Social Democratic and Labour Party, People Before Profit and Alliance, in terms of the projection of geopolitical and globally significant social events, namely Brexit and the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, into the electoral manifestos of the parties in question. The thesis uses a combination of critical discursive analysis and content analysis to process the given electoral programmes. In terms of timing, these are documents drawn up by the parties for the Northern Ireland Assembly elections in May 2022. The importance of each issue for the parties in question, the frequency with which the issues appear in the programmes and the way in which the parties deal with the issues in their programmes are examined. The parties' attitudes to the issues, or the existence of consensus or cleavages within the Northern Irish political scene, are also examined. The theoretical framework of the thesis is based on the theory of cleavage lines. The thesis has identified the projection of the aforementioned events into electoral...
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Comparation of Software Process Maturity Level of Enterprises in Czech Republic
Borský, Miroslav ; Richta, Karel (advisor) ; Král, Josef (referee)
There are many software developing companies in the Czech republic. However the quality of their software processes is almost unknown. The thesis provides insight into the maturity level of the software processes and finds a relation between the maturity level and a size of the company. The survey of the maturity level was performed at fifteen companies developing the financial software. Additionally, a bank and a foreign company teams were chosen for a comparison. Collected data were represented in a graphical format and a description was provided. A correlation between a size of a company and the maturity level rating have been detected at five out of eighteen process areas and at two out of four process area groups. A possible explanation for those correlations was offered.
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The Troubles and its current cleavage lines - spatial analysis
Král, Josef ; Jelen, Libor (advisor) ; Vrhel, Matěj (referee)
Main goal of this work is searching for spatial patterns of The Troubles and analysing of their relation to cleavege lines of contemporary society of Northern Ireland. This work further examines relations between spatial layout of victims of The Troubles and characteristics of brexit referendum of 2016. Analysis was performer using Spearman corelation coefficient. Cleavage line theory was used in this work, which originates in work of Lipset and Rokkan. This work found existence of relations between spatial layout of The Troubles and some factors of brexit referendum of 2016. KEYWORDS Northern Ireland, Irish republicanism, The Troubles, unionism, referendum, brexit
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Comparation of Software Process Maturity Level of Enterprises in Czech Republic
Borský, Miroslav ; Král, Josef (referee) ; Richta, Karel (advisor)
There are many software developing companies in the Czech republic. However the quality of their software processes is almost unknown. The thesis provides insight into the maturity level of the software processes and finds a relation between the maturity level and a size of the company. The survey of the maturity level was performed at fifteen companies developing the financial software. Additionally, a bank and a foreign company teams were chosen for a comparison. Collected data were represented in a graphical format and a description was provided. A correlation between a size of a company and the maturity level rating have been detected at five out of eighteen process areas and at two out of four process area groups. A possible explanation for those correlations was offered.
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