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The Transformation of the Political Environment in Great Britain as a Result of the Rise of Mass Media (until the 70s of the 20th Century)
Koštel, Jakub ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
The main theme of this thesis is the relationship between media and politics in Great Britain mainly in the twentieth century. The research is based on the fact that dynamic post-war growth in technological and economical areas resulted in the development and mass expansion of new media, especially radio and television broadcasting. The main goal of the thesis is to analyze the transformation of British political environment and to verify the hypothesis arguing that this transformation was primarily caused by the development of new media. Changes in the British politics during the twentieth century are demonstrated especially by the election campaigns and methods of political communication. Another part of this work is also the brief analysis of the development of British mass media (press, radio and television) which provides an important context for achieving the stated objectives. The thesis is methodologically based on the research from fields of media history, political history and sociology which concentrates on political communication.
Great Depression in Czechoslovakia - social and political context
Koštel, Jakub ; Váňa, Daniel (advisor) ; Skřivan, Aleš (referee)
During it's evolution social policy has faced a lot of obstacles which it has had to deal with. Probably the biggest obstacle has been so far the Great Depression, which caused a worldwide unemployment of millions of people. Main topic of this thesis is the struggle between social-policy mesures made by czechoslovakian government and mass unemployment of the thirties. Main point is then to evaluate how the Czech politician representatives managed to deal with this difficult problem and if they succeeded to maintain a sufficient social status of unemployed people during the Great Depression. Integral part of thesis is also a description of evolution of social policy during the twenties which is fundamental to understand the following development.

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