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Projects aimed on enhancing active citizenship among primary school pupils
Křešničková, Pavla ; Stará, Jana (advisor) ; Zemanová, Blanka (referee)
This diploma discusses projects to enhance active citizenship among primary school pupils. The work seeks to describe the importance of education for active citizenship in primary schools, to map projects dedicated to deepening knowledge regarding the role of an active citizen, and at the same time to inspire interested teachers to incorporate this issue into their lessons. The work is divided into two parts, theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part defines the concepts of citizenship and active citizenship, the goals of education for active citizenship, and its inclusion in the curriculum, as well as a description of two different projects devoted to this issue. The empirical part tries to answer several questions regarding the projects. First, it answers why it is essential to include education for active citizenship as early as the 1st grade of primary school. It further discusses the goals and risks of this inclusion. Lastly, the empirical part focuses on new and existing programs and initiatives that deepen the development of education for active citizenship among children in the 1st grade of primary school. This part is implemented using the method of in-depth interviews with people who deal with active citizenship and civic education in the Czech Republic and, at the same time, have...
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Masaryk’s Concept of Central European and Whole-European Democratic Unity
Bednář, Miloslav
By 1915 in London Thomas G. Masaryk publicly identified and described the origins of WW I as the neuralgic mid-European belt of minor nations between Germany and Russia presenting the geo-political core of the so called Eastern Question. For Masaryk, this Central Europe presented the most exigent and acute impetus for the allied democratic transformation of the political organization of Europe. By 1919 Halford J. Mackinder proclaimed his famous Heartland concept in the same vein. Masaryk’s plan was to gradually establish a United States of Europe out of transatlantic cooperation between a confederation of European old and new democracies and the U.S. Masaryk’s concept of democratic European unity obviously contradicts the core concept of the European Union that aims at a gradual elimination of European democracies.
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Protestné hnutia v Hongkongu
Chodúrová, Dominika
The bachelor thesis deals with a topic of the protest movements in Hong Kong, which took place in year 2014 and 2019. The first part of the thesis presents the historical and political context that preceded the protests in 2014. This part also describes a theoretical overview related to social and protest movements. In the analytical part of the thesis, both of the protest movements are analyzed through two separate case studies. Using a comparative method, the thesis compares the essential elements of both movements and analyzes whether they have undergone a change or not. He analyzes the causes of the change with the help of the authors dealing with the issue of protests in Hong Kong and the theory of social movements. The results of Bachelor thesis is the finding that the nature of the movement in 2019 was distinct in various aspects, especially in the form of tactics and actions of its participants. The biggest change in the movement in 2019 was the radicalization of some of its groups and their actions. Persistent political problems and the frustration of some participants, who believed that nonviolent means were ineffective, were identified as the main causes of radicalization. The movement's radicalization and change in tactics was also a response to repression by the Hong Kong government and police. The leadership of the movement also underwent a change. This time it was not represented by any publicly known leaders. The main reason for the non-existence of leaders in the 2019 movement was the fact that the leadership of the 2014 movement was prosecuted after its ending.
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Demokracie jako předpoklad vstupu Turecka do EU
Konečný, Štěpán
Democracy is an essential prerequisite for any country to join the EU. My thesis focuses on the state of democracy in the Republic of Turkey today and its accession to the EU at the same time. I began to investigate the nature of Turkish democracy from the very inception of Turkey. The historical context has helped me to understand the evolution of Turkish democracy to its present form. I have mainly focused on the development from the beginning of the new century to the present day. I have checked whether Turkey is moving towards or away from democracy by using the Democracy Index. I also looked at what conditions are imposed when it comes to Turkey's accession to the EU and how Turkey has been and is being able to meet the conditions. As a result, Turkey's drift away from democracy and the current stagnation of accession negotiations is hampering undemocratic sentiments in the current Turkish political scene.
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Communication of the Youth Organizations of the Populist Parties in the Czech Republic
Štěrbová, Adéla ; Konrádová, Marcela (advisor) ; Shavit, Anna (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the issue of communication of youth organizations of the populist movements ANO 2011 and the Freedom and Direct Democracy (Svoboda a přímá demokracie). The concept of populism is considered ambiguous in academic debate and lacks a universally accepted definition covering all of its aspects. The thesis presents different approaches to the study of populism. Due to the topic of the diploma thesis, the work is inclined to understand populism as a communication style, which appears to be the most relevant in the context of the goals of the thesis, and defines its core elements that are then reflected in the operationalization of the research questions. In addition to the presentation of different approaches to the study of populism and the identification of its key elements, the theory and functions of youth organizations are also presented, as well as the theory, development and typology of political parties, including the connection of each of them to the concept of populism and the placement of the ANO and SPD movements in the context of this typology. The aim of the thesis is to identify the relationship in terms of communication between the selected youth organizations and their "parent" political parties, as well as to identify what characterizes the external...
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Vývojové trendy demokratických systémů v postkomunistických zemích
ŠVEC, Tomáš
The thesis deals with the development trends of democratic systems in post-communist countries, specifically in the Czech Republic and Poland. It examines how democratic systems were established in those countries and what the changeover to democracy was like. It describes the key events that led to the fall of communist regimes in those countries. The emphasis is put on opposition forces. Then it tries to describe the development trends of democratic systems in the 1990s, especially from the point of view of the party system and parliamentary elections. The thesis deals with political parties and political developments after individual parliamentary elections. The work also surveys the current political situation in the Czech Republic and Poland. The work tries to answer the question, how both states developed from a democratic point of view and the key point is also a comparison of both states.
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Politická satira na sociálních sítích
MENCLOVÁ, Tereza
The bachelor's thesis deals with the issue of ridicule of politics and politicians in the current media environment. Due to the rapid changes in the media landscape and the new possibilities of the Internet, the relationship between the media and democracy has changed. This also reshaped the character of political satire. The theoretical part explains the relationship between the media and democracy. Subsequently, attention is paid to the changes that satire has undergone, not only from a historical point of view but also from the wave of digitization. The phenomenon of the last few years, the so-called usergenerated satire, which is a satire spread by media users (prosumers), is also explained in more detail. The practical part is focused on the description of the Czech Instagram satirical account TMBK. The aim of the work is to show on the example typical features for prosumer content and to summarize a new kind of satire.
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Fenomén soudobého populismu a Donald Trump
SOUKUP, Karel
First of all in my bachelor thesis I will focus on elucidaing the term contemporary populism. I will introduce political definitions and concepts of this term. Then I will describe populism in different stages: populism in pre-election campaigns, in government or eventually after the end of mandates. I will describe the features, populist rhetoric, argumentation, behavior and many other aspects that populist politicians adopt. I will describe some features on world, European and Czech politicians. In the second part the thesis, I will try to analyze the policy of Donald Trump, and I will apply the theories studied in the first part of my work with an example of his political activity.
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Philosophical Aspects of Globalization
REJMONOVÁ, Eva
This work is concerned with some aspects of the social phenomenon called globalizatin mainly from the view of philosophy, whereas it comes mainly from the publications The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, written by Samuel P. Huntington and The End of History and the Last Man, which is written by Francis Fukuyama. The main problems, which is this work aimed for, are advantages and disadvantages of the plural liberal democracy, linear and cyclical conception of history, cuurent development and the forecastings of future development fo the Western civilization, relationship between Christian and Islamic civilizations and the problems with establishing the liberal democracy in the other cicilizations than the Western civilization. I make a mutual comparison of the two publications introduced thereinbefore and I also compare the attitudes of boht their writers with current worldwide political development.
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Leverage and Influence of the UNHCR Branch Office in the Czech Republic
STREICHSBIEROVÁ, Jana
he focus of the work will be on the analysis of UNHCR's activities in the Czech Republic after the transition of Czechoslovakia to democracy. The situation in the area of constituting an asylum institution in the Czech institutional and legal framework will also be described. The development of migration issues in the Czech Republic will also be taken into account within the process of integration of the Czech Republic into supranational structures in Europe and the importance of this integration for the area of refugees.
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