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Analysis of regional elections 2008 - the case study of Moravskoslezský region
Ernestová, Lucie ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Šabatka, Michal (referee)
The thesis informs a reader about problems of regional elections, that are labelled as Second Order Elections, their development and in addition to that about local politics. The aim of the thesis was to bring near the process of regional elections that took place in 2008, especially the process of regional elections in Moravskoslezský region. The first part of the thesis is focused on status of regional elections in electoral system of Czech Republic, on the origin of regions, their force and liability. The rest of thesis is dedicated to case study of foregoing Moravskoslezský region. The principle of this case study is the charasteristic of the region, presentation of particular candidate parties and their election campaigns and the analyses of elections and election returns from the years of 2000, 2004 and 2008. The fundamental questions were, if the regional elections continued to be labelled as Second Order Elecions and how much during the election campaigns are the voters predominated and affected by the national topics at the expense of the regional topics.
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Financing of political parties in the Czech Republic
Novotný, Petr ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Němec, Jan (referee)
How can funding of political parties affect the outcome of elections? What impact has the legislation on financing political parties on political system? Is it possible that the government's political parties using this scheme remain in power? I will bring in this work the current theoretical background by leading experts on financing of political parties, as well as a separate chapter on giving patterns, showing signs of functionality and portability to other political systems. Finally, I will analyze trends of legislative funding of political parties in the Czech Republic, the current adjustment and its impact on the Czech political system. In all areas, I will try to identify the basic areas of problems and dilemmas. I will outline possible solutions where appropriate, to which I result of studying the theory, or of my own invention. In conclusion the objective of such analysis is to monitor and verify the following hypotheses. 1. Amendments to legislation are intended to enhance the transparency of the financing of political parties and to prevent corrupt behavior. 2. The funding of political parties tends to strengthen their cartelization, i.e. making access of political parties outside the establishment to high politics difficult. 3. The legislation meets the basic requirements placed on it, its implementation is feasible and its compliance is enforceable. The keywords are: the funding of political parties, (mainland) horizontal contribution, (Canadian) system of tax credits, (German) matching funds, contribution to the work, contribution to the electoral costs, contribution to the mandate, the Constitutional Court.
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Political marketing in Democratic Party primary elections 2008
Pistulková, Petra ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Faturová, Marie (referee)
This work analyzes the use of political marketing of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Democratic Party primary elections 2008. Theoretical definition of political marketing is followed by a description of main characteristics of presidential candidates (image, support from celebrities and family and the use of media). Following part deals with primary elections themselves, with decisions made by Obama and Clinton and their outcome on exit polls. The goal of this work is to answer the question: What were the key elements that lead to the victory of Barack Obama and how did he succeed in winning over Hillary Clinton, who was considered to be the frontrunner to win?
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The Czech senate elections 2008
Vojáčková, Anna ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Šabatka, Michal (referee)
The article decsribes the Czech senate elections 2008, using the case study of the elections in three electoral districts - Prague 1, Prague 5 and Prague 9. The first part describes the powers and the basic role of the Senate in the Czech political system. The second part focuses on the electorial process, the way of voting, description of the election campaign and candidates' profiles. It provides the election results analysis.
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Arguments against the "European constitution" -- case studies of France and Ireland
Babický, Vojtěch ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Faturová, Marie (referee)
Problems of constitutional treaties of the European Union are the main topic of the thesis. The thesis concerns arguments which were causes of rejection of the European constitution in France and the Treaty of Lisbon in Ireland two years later. At first, the thesis focuses on historical circumstances on which the creation of "constitutional" treaties is based. Secondly, the thesis analyses the campaigns in respective countries and concentrates on main arguments against these two documents in terms of how much the arguments were connected with texts of the treaties themselves. Finally, the thesis compares arguments in both countries and examines their similarity for rationale rejection of "constitutional" treaties.
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Difficulties of the Common Agricluture Policy
Bokšová, Monika ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Faturová, Marie (referee)
In the first part, the bachelor thesis deals with the causes of creation of the Common Agriculture Policy, its aims, principles, fundamental mechanisms and financing of this policy which is carried out on a supra-national level. In the second part, the bachelor thesis analyses particular reformative steps (Mansholt's conception, McSharry's reform, Agenda 2000, Reform 2003 and Health Check). In the end, the Common Agriculture Policy is assessed as a system and it also predicts its possible evolution.
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Regional elections - Karlovy Vary region case study
Kratochvíl, Jakub ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Šabatka, Michal (referee)
This thesis deals with the analysis of regional elections 2008 in Karlovy Vary region. It becomes a general rule, that the regional elections are taken as the elections of inferior degree, where voters vote primarily against the government. In my thesis, I put myself a question up to which extent the previous statement holds true. It has been shown, that regional policy can have also very important influence on the result of elections. Poeple was not satisfied by their governing regional politics and gave a green card to smaller parties. It resulted in the fact, that Karlovy Vary region has six parties (the most from the whole country) in regional council.
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China in Africa - development and motives of cooperation
Kučerová, Tereza ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
The China-African relations have a tradition of several centuries. However, in last two decades, the character of their relations changes and is getting the dimension of a phenomenon. Currently, China is in a very advantageous position - one leg in the developing world, the other in the developed one. Its economic growth reaches about ten percent a year and its economy has enlarged beyond the state's frontiers. China thus becomes dependent on the international trade in both export and import of sources. The African continent can offer both. This situation, however, is hardly compatible with the role of a superpower which China desires and which is attributed to it by many specialists. This thesis analyses three motives of mutual cooperation - commerce, raw materials and political and strategic interests. Its aim is to give a compact and comprehensive picture which will prove the trueness of the three motives. For better accession and understanding, case studies of selected countries are an integral part of the thesis.
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Argentine - U.S. Bilateral Relations during military junta (1976 - 1983)
Žáčková, Michaela ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Němec, Jan (referee)
The topic of this diploma thesis is Argentine - U.S. bilateral relations during the rule of military junta in Argentina from 1976 to 1983. It deals with the most discussed topics such as human rights violations, grain embargo towards USSR, Falkland islands war, cooperation and competition in Central America, nuclear cooperation. It covers period from the fall of government of María Estela Isabel de Perón and the rise of military junta to the resignation of Leopoldo Galtieri and celebration of free elections in 1983 in Argentina. From the USA side it covers periods of the late Ford administration, entire Carter administration and first years of Reagan administration.
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Affirmative action or positive discrimination?
Buldrová, Andrea ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Vymětal, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the idea of affirmative action and its importance in the development of American society. The main goal is to analyze the effects of affirmative action and to evaluate its positive and negative impacts. The thesis has following structure. At first the theory and basic defenitions of affirmative action and other connected terms are explained. The second part is oriented on historical development of the fight against discrimination and for equal rights of minorities and women. Since 60's it focuses directly on affirmative action programs. At the same time the public stance is examined as well as the main influeces that were and are able to change it. That is why this work deals with some concrete Supreme Court cases which played an essential role in changing the focus and popularity of affirmative action. Particular Supreme Court sentences acted in both directions - there are some cases which were judged in favor of institutions practising affirmative policy or of a member of a group which had to face past discrimination. On the other hand, some sentences led to the end of such programs, especially in 80's when many conservative justices were nominated by president Ronald Reagan. The present situation and the future of affirmative action depend fundamentally on the stance of U.S. administration. The new one around president Barack Obama gives hope to affirmative policy and its supporters.
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