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Advisory bodies and expertise in the Czech politics : epistemic communities and the influence on the reforms of higher education and pension system
Merklová, Kateřina ; Polášek, Martin (advisor) ; Vargovčíková, Jana (referee)
Advisory Bodies and Expertise in the Czech Politics - Epistemic Communities and the Influence on the Reforms of Higher Education and Pension System Master thesis Bc. Kateřina Merklová The Master thesis Advisory Bodies and Expertise in the Czech Politics - Epistemic Communities and the Influence on the Reforms of Higher Education and Pension System concerns with the relation between politics and expertise. So-called epistemic community represents the knowledge interpreter that we consider an independent actor in the political process. In the theoretical part of the text, we have explained the original definition of the concept as well as its critics and case studies that cover various contexts. Following most of the authors, we have applied a looser definition of the concept and deconstructed its rigid criteria. The empirical part of the thesis presents a case study (N=4) based on comparative methods that analyzes variable influence of four particular epistemic communities (the authors of the White Paper on Tertiary Education, Bezdek's Committee, Bezdek's Committee II, and the National Economic Council) on policy-making process and its sources. Regarding our intention and research questions, we have chosen two qualitative methods - in-depth interviews and content analysis of relevant texts. We have...
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Railways in the news media
Dolejší, Milan ; Cebe, Jan (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
The Railway in the News Media takes the railway topic as a specialized one of those the media deal with as a part of its general news.. The rail-news usually does not possess its own section - in contrast with some other specialized news topics, the railway news usually does not possess its own section. The railway topics occur in the economic, domestic or even the regional sections. Nevertheless, there are people specializing themselves in this topic in editorial staffs. Therefore, it is questionable whether the reservations about the quality of the rail-news are justified. This work attempts to research these processes. It deals with the professionalism of the rail-news processing. The work monitors impartiality of the news on the one hand and using of language and semiotics on the other hand. The basis of the work is a quantitative analysis of media contents dedicated to railway in selected printed media. The output is a summary of accuracy of reporting on operational, technical and historical facts about railway and of terminological correctness. It also examines the balance of railway subjects coverage in media. The research results in Czech news media making mistakes in specialized topic news. However. the mistakes are not too serious. Approximately one quarter of analyzed news contents were...
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The institute of preventive detention: comission, goals and limitations of the new preventive measure
Koláříková, Lenka ; Válková, Helena (advisor) ; Kodymová, Pavla (referee)
The institute of preventive detention is a new protective measure in our penal law. The theme of this thesis is an analysis of the comission and goals of the new protective measure and focusing on a comparation of theoretical and practical function of this protective measure. The folowing chapters provide the characterization of the preventive detention and its legal framework in the Czech republic. The component part of the thesis is also a description of the preventive detention in a legal framework of other state, concretely Slovakia. At the end of the work there are explicated knowledges obtained during the visit of the Institute for preventive detention Brno. In this chapter not only functional equipment is described but also the compositon of the inmates and employees and their most important competencies. Programms, by which are the medical goals fullfiled are described at the end of the thesis.
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Controversy about Šumava: Strengths and weaknesses of the ecological principle of consensus
Chomátová, Eliška ; Stöckelová, Tereza (advisor) ; Čermák, Daniel (referee)
The thesis is based on a qualitative research realized in summer 2008 in several municipalities in Šumava. Focus groups organized within this research aimed at the relationship of different stakeholders to the Šumava National Park and more generally to nature and environmentalist thoughts and actors. The research design and the data gathered are presented in the introduction. Then the theory of general principles of consensus is described, which serves as the main theoretical framework for the study of focus groups participants' arguments. Using particular arguments, I show that against the protection of nature as it is realized by Šumava National Park Authority, critical citizens build their arguments on values that are considered legitimate and important in Czech society. The next part of the thesis studies the ecological principle of consensus as a new general principle of consensus: I discuss the conditions for existence of such a principle, its form in the controversy about the management of Šumava and the implications its form can have, supporting broader acceptance of the principle or, on the contrary, its rejection. An important point there is the relationship between expertise and participation, which are, together with the concept of nature, main elements of the ecological principle of...
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Expert capacities of the Czech political parties: case study of defence policy
Bayerová, Anežka ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Vymětal, Petr (referee)
The thesis deals with marginally explored area of expert capacities of the Czech political parties with respect to the different organizational types of selected political parties and movements. The work aims to find out what expert capacities work for these types of political parties, how these experts are recruited in their position, whether it corresponds to their educational background and professional experiences with function, which are they holding in the expert authority. Work is elaborated in the form of case study, which focuses on the activities of defense policy expert commissions. The text is divided into two theoretical and one empirical chapters. The first chapter deals with the process of policy-making, its actors and activities associated with this process. The second chapter defines the various types of political parties first from the mainstream perspective (cadre, mass, catch-all parties), which complements the modern concept of business party and finally there is a typology of S. Wolinetz (office-seeking, vote-seeking, policy-seeking parties). The last empirical chapter presents the case study focused on four Czech political parties (TOP 09, KSČM, ČSSD and political movement ANO 2011) and their access to party expertise. The result of this work is to compare the level of analytical capacity across selected political parties/movements and testing of hypotheses formulated in the introduction of the thesis.
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Code Ownership Research in Large Organization
Šimonek, Jan ; Rychlý, Marek (referee) ; Kreslíková, Jitka (advisor)
This master's thesis is about code ownership in software projects and creating a tool that would improve cooperation by identifying code owners. The theoretical foundation for code ownership starts from Extreme Programming, explaining models of code ownership and the impact of code ownership on cooperation among teams and team members. The concept is demonstrated on a concrete software firm, where a potential for improvement is identified. The potential is exploited by a software tool, which is designed in the this thesis. The tool is capable of identifying code owners and experts for specific areas in the code based on data gathered from a version control system. The resulting information is made easily accessible. The tool is used to conduct a code ownership research in several projects, which allows me to confirm accuracy of the results. Usability and benefits of the tool is discussed in the final chapter.
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The Topical Issues in Experts Activities
Škoch, Petr ; Bradáč, Albert (referee) ; Telec, Ivo (advisor)
The Diploma thesis deals with general issues in the environment of Czech expertise from the view of ordinary experts. The study fosuses on a critical analysis of expert activities with special regards to remuneration issues, timing of expert fees, expertise, experts‘ inauguration and dismissal from a post and cooperation with government authorities. The methodology used is an array of reactions by experts to individual and specific points, which are then evaluated and possible methods of solution are proposed. The end of the thesis statistically summarises all problems in a graph and highlights the most critical ones.
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Issue of detailed building condition survey processing of building constructions
Šmahel, Milan
Processing of expertises in litigations in the area of damages caused by civil engineering on other owners‘ surrounded ground constructions led the author to write this contribution. Condition survey of current state is done on other owners‘ surrouded buildings before working constructions, mainly on underground structure, engineering and ground constructions, start. There are sometimes protracted litigations and expertise processing in determination of damage level in case of damage in connection with such construction. That is why the author deals with the issue of building condition survey and decisions made by both a client and a processor about details and distances from a place of constructions when building condition survey is proceeded.
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views of social workers for further training in the South Bohemian Region
CANTILLOVÁ, Klára
Bachelor thesis deals with the mapping of the opinions of workers in the social field for further education in the South Bohemian Region. Further education is meant primarily education pursuant to Act No. 108/2006 Coll. Social Services, the employer is obliged to employees provide social worker continuing education to 24 hours per calendar year. The work is divided into two main parts. The first part is a theoretical treatment of the subject of further training requirements for workers in the social and motivation for further education. The second part is designed as a practical part, which contains the interpretation of the results of the research.
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