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Accountability of international NGOs
Staša, Michal ; Skovajsa, Marek (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
Diploma thesis concerns two current issues filling scholarly magazines in recent years. The first one is a discourse about the global civil society, its existence, definition and scope. Thesis maps the basic approaches and creates three groups of authors: globalists, skeptics and empiricists. The second issue is about the need of better accountability which arises after few scandals of global institutions in the early years of new century. The scandals didn't avoid the international non-governmental organizations. The diploma thesis summarizes few types of typologies of accountability and introduces the basic areas divided into the two groups: moral and political accountability and procedural and internal accountability. The research part of thesis comprises the accountability assessment of three branches of international non-governmental organizations: Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Hnutí DUHA - The Friends of the Earth. The goal was to find the appropriate methodology for assessing the national branches and verify it. The main result is the modification of an existing methodology of One World Trust organization and the finding that the organizations have the low rate of accountability.
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Anonymous Private Party Funding in Denmark: How do journalists cover this issue?
Merved, August Kaae ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Turková, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis intends to examine the amount- and reasons for the news coverage related to the controversial party funding system in Denmark. This is achieved through comparisons of other political cases during the Danish 2022 and 2019 elections in a quantitative media analysis. The results are then analyzed and discussed using the data from eight interviewed Danish journalists working on some of the seven most prominent Danish media outlets. These qualitative interview data provide insights into reasons, motives, and causes for the fluctuation and difference in the coverage between the other observed and analyzed political cases in the past two elections. The findings show that the journalists deem party funding a complex and technical subject, but still, a subject deemed important to cover by journalists. However, in a fast-paced news agenda, the non-transparent party funding is covered less in comparison with news topics or cases during elections that are more emotionally charged and personalized, or topics that can provide a more direct influence on society, according to the qualitative data - as opposed to the more complex cases of political funding.
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Data mining and aspects of private law
Procházka, Lukáš ; Kučera, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Zvára, Michael (referee)
Data mining and aspects of private law Abstract Data is the new oil. As oil can be transformed into valuable products data can be transformed into information about our customers, competitors, contractual partners or audience. No matter whether online advertisements, recommender systems, internet search engines, so- called personalisation is ever-present. As of now, neither private nor public law provides throughout regulation of data and its exploitation. Some might say that words, data and information are interchangeable. This applies particularly to older regulations of the European Union such as GDPR. However, data and information are two very distinct yet connected terms. Besides that, in the first chapter we elaborate on the concept of data mining, its methods and utilization. In the second chapter we point out relevant regulation within private law, including regulation of the European Union and its pursuit of fairness in access and use of data. Furthermore, we evaluate suitability and sufficiency of the current state of regulation and suggest changes and amendments. We focus on personal data, intellectual property rights and anti-competitive practices. Some might argue that as of now there are no sufficient provisions ensuring transparent use of data. In the third chapter we evaluate whether current...
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Effectiveness Of Public Procurement In The Czech Republic
SMUTNÍKOVÁ, Kristýna
This diploma thesis deals with the topic of the public procurement effectiveness in the Czech republic. Main goal of this thesis is to determine the effectiveness by using selected indicators such as transparency indicator, potential risk indicator, administrative capacity indicator. From indices of mentioned indicators, the arithmetic average score was calculated, which implicate index of good procurement. According to the final index is efficiency assessed within the comparison among states in Visegrad Group. To determine the results, a detailed analysis and visualization of data was used in PowerBI program which offers business intelligence functionality. At the very end of this thesis, conclusion and specific steps are formulated. These steps could increase the effectiveness of public procurement in the Czech republic.
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Leadership in selected company
KALÁŠKOVÁ, Markéta
The diploma thesis deals with authentic leadership in selected company Ferospoj s.r.o. This work follows up on the results obtained through my bachelor thesis. The aim is to do more detailed analysis of leadership in selected company and to propose appropriate measures to improve authentic leadership. As a leader, it is important to deal with your approach to the followers and to work on its development. Leadership is one of the key factors that can ensure required performance and thus achieve the goals of the company. A questionnaire method is used for analysis of the authentic leadership in a selected organization. Two types of questionnaires are used. One of them is the "Authentic Leadership Questionnaire" which is completed by both, the leader and his followers. The second one is the "NEO five factor personality inventory" questionnaire which is fill in only by the leader. Based on the results of both questionnaires, the measures, that could lead to the development of the authentic side of the leader and his leadership as well, are suggested.
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Budget Process in Theory and Practice in a Municipality
SAMCOVÁ, Kateřina
This thesis deals with the analysis of the budget and the budgetary process with a focus on the transparency of the entire budgetary process. Furthermore, it is pointed out the weak points in the legislation that allow municipalities to be creative at certain stages of the budget process. The thesis first provides information about the individual stages of the budgetary process, which are the proposal budget, the negotiation and approval of the budget, the implementation of the budget and control, and finally the final bill. The budget process of the city of Strakonice for 2020 is also described in detail. Due to the impact of the pandemic crisis, the implementation of the budget and its control were non-standard, which is why a chapter on the impact of the crisis on the budgetary process is included. It was found that the budgetary process in practice did not differ much from the one described in the theoretical part of the thesis. Therefore, only minor recommendations have been proposed that could improve the clarity and transparency of the entire budgetary process while increasing its efficiency.
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Ascertaining beneficial owners of limited business corporations and the legal consequences of discrepancies in their register
Tocik, Jan ; Černá, Stanislava (advisor) ; Josková, Lucie (referee)
1 Ascertaining beneficial owners of limited business corporations and the legal consequences of discrepancies in their register Abstract The ongoing EU regulatory developments in the area of anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism have brought obligations to identify and register data on beneficial owners of legal persons and legal arrangements. Beneficial owners are, in the most general sense, natural persons who, on a factual or legal basis, directly or indirectly, control a legal person or legal arrangement, own a significant share in it or draw a substantial part of funds from its capital resources. The main purpose and objective of these obligations is to ensure increased transparency of these legal entities so that they cannot be easily exploited for the perpetration of (financial) crime. In order to implement the latest European legislation into the Czech legal system, the Czech legislator adopted (and is currently amending) Act No. 37/2021 Sb., on the Register of Beneficial Owners, which regulates this legal matter in a general and comprehensive manner. The object of this thesis is the analysis of the new statutory regulation and the assessment of whether it is capable of achieving its objective, which is to ensure increased transparency of legal persons, specifically in the...
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Processing of compact polycrystalline YAG ceramics
Kaplan, Lukáš ; Pouchlý, Václav (referee) ; Kachlík, Martin (advisor)
In the literary part of this master thesis a research on various methods of preparation of dense polycrystalline YAG ceramics and the effects of sintering on the densification and other desired properties of such prepared YAG ceramics was carried out, the transparency after addition of dopant elements was also discussed. In the experimental part of the thesis, samples of dense polycrystalline YAG ceramics were prepared by SSR method and the effect of sintering on the densification and porosity of the YAG ceramic samples was studied. Relative density, porosity, phase purity and transparency were measured on the sintered samples. These measurements were compared with the results of the works reported in the literature section.
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The Trade Policy Review Mechanism: Shedding light on non-compliance?
Rosendorf, Ondřej ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee)
This thesis examines the notion of monitoring mechanisms and their ability to identify non-compliance. The Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) of the World Trade Organization constitutes the main focus of analysis. The purpose of the thesis is to improve the current empirical account of the functioning of the mechanism, and to examine the extent to which the mechanism is able to detect rule violations before they are taken up to the court, as well as factors affecting this ability. From theoretical standpoint, the thesis draws mainly upon rational institutionalism and other approaches related to notions of transparency and compliance. In particular, the thesis focuses on the concept of the so called information systems in international regimes. As regards methodology, the thesis relies on the method of content analysis the purpose of which is to procure empirical evidence of occurrence of matters related to non-compliance in trade policy reviews. Thus procured empirical evidence is then subjected to statistical analysis, including logistic regression. The thesis finds that TPRM covers surprisingly large number of matters that later become subjects of judicially confirmed rule-violations at the WTO. As much as 72% of the matters that are eventually taken up to court are mentioned in trade policy...
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Transparency of proceedings in international arbitration
Poliaková, Lucia ; Balaš, Vladimír (advisor) ; Horáček, Vít (referee)
1 Transparency of proceedings in international arbitration Summary The purpose of my thesis is to explore the concept of transparency in international arbitration. There are different types of international arbitration, characterized by different participants and naturally distinct aspects of procedure. One of these aspects is, according to my opinion, the said transparency of the proceedings. For the purposes of this thesis, I have decided to analyze the position of transparency in two major areas, namely in investment arbitration and in commercial arbitration, respectively. As the concept of transparency in international arbitration is only recently developing, there is much to be resolved. Thus, the state of the affairs with respect to the subject matter of this thesis is ambiguous and misty. The aim of my research is to describe the position of transparency in two basic types of arbitration and identify the reasons for different trends in this respect. The thesis is composed of an Introduction, four basic chapters and a Conclusion. Chapters are divided into subchapters and parts, respectively. The Introduction presents the topic, defines relevant terminology and sets out the aim of my thesis. Chapter One deals with the confidentiality of arbitration which is clearly opposite concept than that of the...
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