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Trust in Political Institutions in the Czech Republic
Čermák, Daniel ; Kostelecký, Tomáš (advisor) ; Sedláčková, Markéta (referee) ; Müller, Karel (referee)
The aim of the PhD dissertation is to research political trust, specifically to describe trends in political trust and to identify factors which are related to reported trust. Political trust is vertical trust oriented to selected political institutions which are grounded in the Constitution of the Czech Republic. Following political institutions are analyzed in this study: the Government of the Czech Republic, the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, regional councils and municipal councils. Life-time learning model proposed by Mishler and Rose, which combines cultural and institutional approaches to explanation of trust in political institutions, is used as a theoretical framework in this study. All conducted analyses make use of data from surveys carried out by CVVM and other departments of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The key finding of the study is the fact that the level of trust in political institutions is mainly determined by factors associated with 1) institutional performance which is related to political situation and the perception of own economic situation or the economic situation of the state; 2) party preferences (presence of so called "the winner effect"). The level of trust in political institutions on national, regional, and local...
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Communication of municipality with citizens. Case study at municipal part Prague 4
Ramíková, Hana ; Čermák, Daniel (advisor) ; Vávra, Martin (referee)
This graduation thesis talks about the communication of citizens and municipality at Prague 4. It not only desribes the means of communication and information sharing, but tries to evaluate it as well. In the theoretical part it presents the civil sector as a part of life in society and it shows how does it cooperate with the two other regulators of social life - state and market. There is also shortly presented history of civil sector in Czech countries. In the second part there are presented main means of communication and information providing that are used at a municipality of Prague 4, then it presents the results of public research and interviews with representatives of non-profit organizations working at Prague 4. It also shows how people use institution of complaints and petitions and the possibilities given by Act 106/1999 Coll., on Free Access to Information. In the final part we can see the evaluation of the situation on the field of communication and information and gives also some recommendations how to make the situation even better.
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Equine tourism in National Park České Švýcarsko and prague's agglomeration
Krejčová, Linda ; Čermák, Daniel (advisor) ; Thöndlová, Gabriela (referee)
Tato diplomová práce je studií, kvalitativním výzkumem, který má za cíl zjistit, zda ve vybraných dvou oblastech, chráněném a nechráněném území, funguje jezdecká turistika a do jaké míry odpovídá konceptu šetrné turistiky. Vzhledem k tomu, že jezdecká turistika je velmi mladý rozvíjející se druh sportovní aktivity, věnuje se práce i zodpovězení otázek, jaké má v dané oblasti jezdecká turistika podmínky a zda při jejím provozu nedochází k uživatelskému konfliktu na stezkách nebo jiným sporům. Důležité bylo i zjištění míry spolupráce jednotlivých aktérů, které tvoří komunikační síť. Pro realizaci výzkumu byla zvolena kvalitativní strategie sběru dat pomocí polostrukturovaných rozhovorů a analýza získaných dat prostřednictvím metody zakotvené teorie. Koncept tzv. měkké turistiky vychází z rešerše odborné literatury. Její znaky de facto apelují na dodržování zásad trvale udržitelného rozvoje, ze kterého tak nutně vychází teoretický rámec rozhovorů. Klíčová slova: jezdecká turistika, metoda zakotvené teorie, chráněná území, trvale udržitelný rozvoj, šetrná turistika, hipostezka, síť aktérů, komunikace, regionální politika, udržitelný cestovní ruch. Abstract My thesis is a qualitative research using inductive methods. Its aim is to create a theory about management of equine tourism in two selected areas,...
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Tourism and mechanism of its monitoring in Czechia
Ducháčková, Jana ; Melichar, Jan (advisor) ; Čermák, Daniel (referee)
The objective of this master's thesis is to examine a detailed summary of the present situation of visitor monitoring methods in large-scale protected areas in Czechia. Methods used in Czechia are introduced on 9 areas. The main research tools used were interviews with 8 key actors and a survey with the head managers of 4 national parks and 25 protected areas. The questionnaire survey was conducted in November and December 2011 and had 100 % return. This thesis presents comprehensive characteristics of the situation in Czechia including levels of monitoring methods. It seems that this study is the first of its kind which has been done in Czechia. Findings show that there is systematic quantitative visitor monitoring in Czech national parks, but that there is not in protected landscape areas. The majority of national park and protected area management do not have a standard certificated methodology for managing counting visitors. This means that their results cannot be compared. To promote better understanding of methods the text includes 22 examples of visitor counting done in chosen European countries and 9 examples from other non-European countries with the goal of summarizing which methods and technologies are available and suitable for use in Czechia. Finally, the evaluations of eight...
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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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Sports aktivities and nature protection
Zelenková, Lucie ; Čermák, Daniel (advisor) ; Synek, Stanislav (referee)
Mountain climbing is a leisure activity being performed mainly in a natural environment. In our country can be found preponderance of convenient places for doing this kind of sport in the Specially Protected Areas. The basic legal regulation governing the performance of climbing in the Czech republic is the Act of Nature and Landscape Protection. This paper investigates opinions of Administration of Protected landscape Areas employees on climbers and on mountain climbing generally. It also investigates possible effects of mountain climbing according to the view of particular employees. For this investigation I have chosen a qualitative strategy of sociological research.
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Drug Problems in Ostrožská Nová Ves from the Perspective of the Inhabitants - Comparison with the Real Situation
Malíková, Jindřiška ; Bernard, Josef (advisor) ; Čermák, Daniel (referee)
The aim of my work is to show the problems of drug abuse in the village Ostrožská Nová Ves. In the main part I try to analyse the results of my research made among the inhabitants of the village during July and August 2006. I also add some information about the situation gained thanks to interviews with two specialists - Mr. Petr Voráč, a policeman of the police department in Uherské Hradiště who specializes in the problems of drug abuse, and Mrs. Jana Nohalová, a social worker and head of the social department in Uherské Hradiště. Except their ideas I also used the statistics of the Czech police and the region Zlín. In my work I compare this information with the results of my research. The final chapter deals with the problems of prevention and prevention programmes in the village. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Protected landscape areas appraoch to biking
Řešátková, Kristina ; Novák, Arnošt (advisor) ; Čermák, Daniel (referee)
In my graduation thesis I've researched how mountain bicycling in today's era is viewed in areas with increased level of nature protection. Subject of my interest are actors who influence form of this growing free time activity that takes place in protected landscape area of Krivoklatsko countryside. My thesis is based on theories of Social construction of nature and Actor-network theory. Based on these theories I could approach the researched area as a system of human and nonhuman actors that create junctions between nature and our society. With qualitative analysis of interviews and documents I've discovered actor's interests and their mutual connections. I've also participated in discussions about main topics of mountain bicycling in protected landscape areas: tracks and trails that cyclists benefit from. My findings are used for final conclusion about possible development in case of declaring Krivoklatsko as national reservation park.
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Perception of fear in Žižkov and Jarov
Jíchová, Jana ; Temelová, Jana (advisor) ; Čermák, Daniel (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is to discover how the inhabitants of Žižkov and Jarov perceive their place of residence in terms of the potentially risk places and safety. Following this aim the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used: questionnaire survey, interviews, statistical data analysis. The researches on fear of crime emphasize differentiation in the perception of fear by men and women and by various age groups, which is also reflected in this thesis. Further the focus is on identification of places which are often perceived as more hazardous and reasons which conduce to this perception. This research also tries to discover whether an overlap of places with higher incidence of crimes and localities which inhabitants perceive as the most hazardous exists. The thesis simultaneously brings closer the theme of fear and fear of crime, options to perceive living environment. The results proved that some localities, for example parks or deserted and deprived places, are perceived as hazardous. The research also pointed that women and some age groups strongly perceived the fear of crime and the overlap of places with higher incidence of crimes and localities perceived as dangerous exists. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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