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Persecution of the Latin Church in Czechoslovakia - ideology, strategy and tactics of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia
Kurfiřtová, Tereza ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Váňa, Tomáš (referee)
This work examines the prosecution of the Roman Catholic Church in the Communist-ruled Czechoslovak Republic. The first part analyzes the mutual relationship of the communist ideology and the Roman Catholic Church. The basic tenets of communism are presented via the works of Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and consecutive texts labeled Marxist- Leninist. The thoughts of the church are presented through the statements of several popes that took a stand against the ideals of communism and the atrocities committed in their name. The second chapter analyzes the individual steps the Communist-controlled state took against the church. Particular attention is devoted to the period from the February 1948 Communist takeover up to the end of the 1950s. This period can be further divided into three phases, distinguished by the differing tactics employed by the Communist Party. In the first phase, the Communists were attempting to subdue the church, the second phase was characteristic by very ruthless prosecution of the church officials, while the hallmark of the third phase was mainly a systematic policy of atheization. The aim of this work is a comparison of the ideological underpinnings of the Communist ideology with the real-world practice of the attempted elimination of religion from society. Focus is...
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Media image of prime minister Petr Nečas and his government in connection with increase VAT on press
Kurfiřtová, Tereza ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals with the media image of the Petr Nečas cabinet in conjunction with the proposal for changes in the VAT, namely the unification of the lowered and basic rate of it. It traces the development of the process of informing the public about the VAT changes and about the cabinet itself in the timeframe from January to April of 2011. During this time, the realization of the VAT change became likely. The rate unification was a part of the long-awaited pension reform. Additional funds collected as a result of the changes were supposed to finance the provisions of the new legislation, with pension reform being one of the main goals of the Petr Nečas cabinet. The work is based on the assumption that media informed the public about the cabinet more negatively for the reason that the VAT rates directly impact them and raising some rates may have significantly impacted their functioning. Print media and books fell into the lower VAT rate, which stood at 10 per cent in 2011. The cabinet at first wanted the unified rate to stand at 19 per cent, and later changed the decision to 20 per cent. In the end, a compromise was made on a gradual unification - in January 2012, the lowered rate would be raised to 14 per cent, with a further raise to 17, 5 per cent a year after that. The first...
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Development of czech party system: 1992-1996
Kurfiřtová, Tereza ; Novák, Miroslav (advisor) ; Just, Petr (referee)
This work analyzes the development of the Czech party system in 1992 - 1996. Before November 1989, an undemocratic communist regime ruled in Czechoslovakia, disallowing the functioning of other political subjects. Following the collapse of this regime, the structure of new political parties began to crystallize. At the end of the electoral period 1992 - 1996 there was a natural reduction in the number of political parties. The aim is to determine the category of the party system which corresponds to the situation in the Czech lands. The beginning of this work presents theoretical concepts on which the analysis is based of the Czech party system. Here, the most important is the theoretical concept of party systems by political scientist Giovanni Sartori. The next part describes the period preceding the elections in 1992, followed by a chapter on political parties after the fall of the communist regime. The last chapter deals with the analysis of the party system. The development of the Czech party system is viewed from multiple perspectives that mutually correspond (election results in 1992 and 1996, changes in political groups, changes in voter preferences). In this chapter, several pages are devoted to the representation of cleavages according to the concept by Stein Rokkan and Seymour M. Lipset in the...
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