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Third Parties and their programs in the US Political System
Chejn, Tomáš ; Kotábová, Věra (advisor) ; Dopieralla, Jakub (referee)
In the thesis we are going to examine phenomenon of american political system, the third parties and their agenda. The United States are a typical example of presidentialism and two-party system therefore the third parties are quite ignored topic. Even though, in some occasions, they are quite capable to stir up the results of presidential elections or to have an effect on the change in agenda of major political parties and, according to annual research by Gallup, 60 % of american citizens are inclined to the idea of strong third party in american politics. In our research we are going to concentrate on five american third parties and their agenda. The research is based on the theoretical approach to american major parties, which are, due to bipartism and first-past-the-post election system, forced to spread extent of their agenda to reach for large voter support in very diverse electorate. Third parties on the other hand are typical with their focus on a specific issue, usually ignored by both major parties. Our hypothesis states, that if third parties want to reach for relevant size of electorate support, their agenda should have, besides the distinctive issue, similar extent as the major parties agenda. Also, if they want to reach for attention of electorate with their distinctive issue, it...
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Development of the electoral system of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and prospects on its potential changes
Panáček, Jan ; Lebeda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Švec, Radek (referee)
Aim of this bachelor work is to observe the development of electoral systém in the Great Britain after the World War II and its parametric changes, effect on elecitons results and Political situation and to observe trends leading to possible change of the electoral system in Great Britain, that has been laid by the results of last elections. As method a case study will be used and as main resources a intend to use electoral statitics showing the gradual development of individual parameters of the British electoral system, monographies and research papers analyzing growing disproportionality of the electoral results and neccesity (or uneccesity) of the change of electoral system. In the first part i will analyze general tendencies of the electoral system of Great Britain and its development after the World War II, czech and foreign literatury conserning the British electoral systém will be use as resources. In the second part individual elections and its results will be analyzed, observing the influence and development against the last elections. For that I will use electoral statistics and analysis. He third part will observe the situation after the 2010 elections and development towards the AV referendum. Main resources for that part will be official materials of political parties, together with...
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Development of the electoral system of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and prospects on its potential changes
Panáček, Jan ; Lebeda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Švec, Radek (referee)
Aim of this bachelor paper is to observe the development of electoral system in Great Britain after the World War II and its parametric changes, effect of these changes on elecitons results and Political situation and to observe trends leading to possible change of the electoral system in Great Britain, that has been laid by the results of last elections. As method a case study will be used and as main resources I intend to use electoral statitics showing the gradual development of individual parameters of the British electoral system, monographies and research papers analyzing growing disproportionality of the electoral results and necessity (or unnecessity) of the change of electoral system. In the first part i will analyze general tendencies of the electoral system of Great Britain and its development after the World War II, czech and foreign literatury concerning the British electoral system will be used as resources. In the second part individual elections and its results will be analyzed, observing the influence and development against the last elections. For that I will use electoral statistics and analysis. The third part will observe the situation after the 2010 elections and development towards the AV referendum. Main resources for that part will be official materials of political parties,...
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