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Nonpluralistic Political Systems: the Case of Czech Municipalities
Hofman, Štěpán ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Bubeníček, Václav (referee)
This thesis Nonpluralistic political systems: the case of czech municipalities target problematic and occurrence of nonpluralistic political systems. Nonpluralistic political systems is little researched phenomenon and It cannot be reflected by any researche focusing mainly on this issue. Autors focusing on local politic in western systems don't deal with given problematic. My research in this work focuses on proving existence and relevance of nonpluralistic political systems on a case of czech municipalities. Research is not done on the whole Czech Republic, but only on sample of five czech districts, choosen according to municipal structure, demographic characteristic and socio-economic characteristic. Second part of my research focuses on analysis of participants of those systems, on nature of their candidacy and also on the fact, if participants of pluralistic and nonpluralistic systems are any different.
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The United Russia and strengthening of the influence in the Russian Federation
Vondráčková, Dominika ; Příhoda, David (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
This work is about the United Russia - party of power in Russian Federation. The exact aim is to define and describe main ways of strenghtening the party's power within the system. Those ways are especially: election reforms, biased medias, biased voting behavior managed through regions and youth movements. Text is divided into three chapters - theoretical, historical and practical. The first chapter talks about theory of political parties, parties of power in general, and about hegemonic party systems. This chapter provides theoretical frame and supports argumentation that hegemonic party needs to use certain activities in order to perpetuate its influence. Second chapter explores the history and tradition of political parties in Russia. Traditionally parties were very weak and often established by state, instead of being established by the civil society and its cleavages. In this part are shown longer-term factors, which are helpful in perpetuating strong Russian party of power. Last chapter shows the main spheres through which the party strengthens itself. We talk about period since 2001 when the party was established until presence (2016). Here are demonstrated concrete examples - for instance how exactly was changed the electorate system in order to advance the United Russia, how is the voting...
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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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The Role of the United Russia in Political System of the Russian Federation
Vondráčková, Dominika ; Příhoda, David (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
Main focus of this text is the current party of power in Russia - the United Russia. The party was established on purpose of competing another party (and take away votes), but eventually gained quite high number of votes itself. Almost since the beginning we could have been witnessing a partnership between United Russia and Vladimir Putin. After Vladimir Putin became a president in 2000, legal changes concerning parties had occurred. The goal of my writing is to show what role does the party have and how the system influences United Russia's position in the system. In the first chapter I focus on typologies of party systems. I begin with Sartori and his classification of less competitive regimes and then I am moving towards special terms which are especially being used for Russian case. In the next chapter, I am talking mainly about changes of party system and reforms in the system which came hand in hand with Putin's presidency. Those reforms show us very clearly the tendencies within party system held by the Kremlin. At the end I talk about United Russia and its distribution of power.
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Development of the Czech party system between 2010-2013
Korbel, Tomáš ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
The master thesis "Development of the Czech party system between 2010-2013" focuses on an analysis of the state of the Czech party system with an emphasis on political developments over the past few years as well as the last two Czech Parliamentary elections in 2010 and 2013. The results of the elections deviate from the long term developments in the country since the 1990s and the fall of the communist regime. The goal of this work is to define phases which capture the essential developments of the Czech party system and what trends it currently demonstrates using quantitative methods which will help us to calculate things such as the index of the effective number of parties in the party system. The main question that this work will try to answer is whether or not we can consider the Czech party system to be consolidated.
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Influence of the National Minorities on the Party Systems of the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Slovenia
Šotola, Jan ; Höfer, Karel (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis "Influence of the National Minorities on the Party Systems of the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Slovenia" is to compare the influence of national minorities on the party systems of Estonia and Slovenia. Numerous Russian minority and other minorities from former Soviet Union live in Estonia, where they form large part of population. Like other citizens they have civil rights, through which they shape the party system, political system respectively. In Slovenia live many citizens from former Yugoslavia and other surrounding countries. Thesis includes personal analysis of parliaments of both countries aimed at minority participation. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The emergence of new political parties in the Czech Republic
Šárovec, Daniel ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to discuss new political parties in the context of the Czech party system. Movement ANO 2011 and Dawn of Direct Democracy are the researched subjects which broke through elections to the Chamber of Deputies in the Czech Republic in 2013. This multiple case study proceeds from the basic and ambiguously gripped notion political party to diverse theoretical aspects of newness, trying to briefly define the Czech party system in the context of new political parties. It is done in terms of legislative rules for (not only new) political parties and also from a developmental view. Afterwards the empirical part works with particular characteristics of two chosen subjects - it gradually focuses on their emergence and development, programme, the leader and members, electoral campaign and their participation in elections. The task of the individual characteristics is to introduce both subjects accurately so their common and different traits are obvious. The gained findings are later assessed by the view of the chosen Sikk's theory of newness. There is examined if ANO and Dawn fall into some of the categories defined by this theory. The diploma thesis tries to shift the state of knowledge of new Czech political parties and refers to the positives and negatives of the chosen...
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ANO 2011: a business firm party?
Zavřel, Filip ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
This thesis called "ANO 2011: a business-firm party?" deals with the analysis of a Czech political movement ANO 2011 in order to determine wheter and/or to what extent political movement ANO 2011 corresponds with business-firm party model, as described by Jonathan Hopkin and Caterina Paolucci in 1999. It is based on the context of a change of party organization and on logic of developmental typology of political parties. The aim is to determine whether the political movement ANO 2011 corresponds to the characteristics of the business-firm party model. The hypothesis here is that in the beginning of the movement it matched the model, while since than there is moving away to the direction of the form of traditional political parties. In another part there is a contribution described to the revision of business-firm party model that offers a modified perspective on the subject. With this perspective the characteristics of the business-firm party model are rather understood as a marketing strategy or a party subtype than as a separate and generally applicable type of political parties.
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Comparison of Political Parties ODS and TOP09: Program versus Reality
Batko, Martin ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Trávníček, Matěj (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Comparison of the Political Parties ODS and TOP 09: Programe versus Reality" analyses how successful were the mentioned political parties in the implementation of their election programmes in actual fact. The beginning of this thesis deals with the theory of the party systems. The Giovanni Sartori's and Jean Blondel's typologies are applied to the Czech party system. The second section of this part follows up the Klaus von Beyme's theory of the party families, the emphasis is put on the conservative and liberal thinking, which the political parties ODS and TOP 09 recognize as their own ideologies. By using the election programs, comparative method will find out which of the studied party was more successful in the implementation of their promises into the reality. The Comparison analyses the election programs of the both parties for the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in 2010. Evaluation has been done in four sections, which are the economic policy, the struggle against corruption, the social system and the pension reform. It has been found out that both parties were in their actions similarly successful, the most problematic of studied parts was the economic policy. Nevertheless, TOP 09 has implemented slightly more promises into the reality than...
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