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Concept of Authoritarian Regime of Juan Linz and its Application on Antanas Smetona Rule
Soušková, Tereza ; Tumis, Stanislav (advisor) ; Ante, Kristine (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyses political development in interwar Lithuania, which declared independence in 1918. The years of independence ended in 1940 by Soviet occupation. The thesis is concern on period of rule of Antanas Smetona who become the Lithuanian president after military coup d'etat in 1926. The analytical part deals with the theory of authoritarian regimes by Juan Linz, who developed this theory in his book "Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes". The thesis explains the main statements of his draft, analyses empirical datas which are relevant to Smetona's regime and then provides a comparison. The aim is to find out to what extent the regime of Antanas Smetona is in accordance with Linz's definition of authoritarian regime.
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Village elections in China- a step towards democracy?
Čejchan, Jakub ; Buben, Radek (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis "Village elections in China - a step towards democracy?" focuses on the development of local institutions of village self-government that has taken place in China since mid-1980s. Author tries to explain the phenomena in broader context of development of entire Chinese countryside. Another goal of the thesis is to answer, whether the implementation of direct elections to Chinese countryside can help to promote democratization in China or whether it plays some other, different role.
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Authoritarian regime in Czechoslovakia in 1968
Zeman, Jakub ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
Goal of this thesis is to find, if Czechoslovakia in 1968, in the time of so called Prague Spring, could be defined as authoritarian regime. Typological theory of authoritarian regimes by Juan J. Linz is used. Thesis used comparative method for researching similar aspects of functionality of state machinery with aspects of Linz's theory of authoritarian regimes. Main point of interest is limited pluralism, which is most important for verification of Linz's theory in time of Prague Spring.
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Nikos Zachariadis and the Communist Party of Greece during the Metaxas dictatorship
Karasová, Nikola ; Králová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Tejchman, Miroslav (referee)
This essay describes the situation of the communist movement in Greek society in the interwar period and mainly during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-1941) when it had to adopt to many important changes. The Greek communists who were ruthlessly persecuted by the regime had gained greater public support as well as further experience in illegal activity. When they later got engaged in the fights of the World War II and the Greek civil war they suceeded to make use of it. Despite the ideology of Metaxas being in plain contradiction to the ideology of the Communist party of Greece, they both cooperated after the Italian agression against Greece in October 1940. This attitude helped Metaxas, as well as KKE, to gain public support that had been so far unusual. It is a paradox that the year 1941 became for both of them historically the first moment of explicit political success.
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The Transformation Process in Algeria (1988 - 1999)
Beránek, Zdeněk ; Gombár, Eduard (advisor) ; Mendel, Miloš (referee) ; Pirický, Gabriel (referee)
- Transformační proces v Alžírsku (1988-1999) Předkládaná práce analyzuje politické změny v Alžírsku po roce 1988, kdy byl po nepokojích v hlavním městě zahájen liberalizační proces a urychleny ekonomické tržní reformy. Politické reformy měly posílit postavení prezidenta Bendžedída a jeho spojenců na úkor konzervativních oponentů a zároveň obnovit legitimitu režimu. Autoři reforem každopádně nepočítali s výraznějším sdílením moci. Nečekaný úspěch islamistické strany mobilizoval konzervativce a protiislamisticky zaměřené armádní velení. Zrušení voleb kvůli jednoznačnému vítězství islamistů v lednu 1992 vedlo k eliminaci islamistické i sekulární opozice. Obnovený autoritářský režim dokázal dostat pod kontrolu islamistické povstání a s pomocí MMF i kritickou ekonomickou situaci. Návrat k ústavnímu režimu proběhl bez účasti islamistické i sekulární opozice, která byla fragmentovaná a režim ji dokázal částečně kontrolovat. Po roce 1996 byl nastolen autoritářský režim s omezenými pluralitními prvky s dominantním postavením prezidenta, které je však oslabováno výrazným vlivem armádního velení. Politické strany mohou působit, ale jejich vliv je omezen. Jisté limity má i svoboda tisku. Došlo k posílení soukromého sektoru, postavení státu je však stále výrazné a ekonomika je závislá na vývozu ropy a zemního...
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Arab Spring 2011 - regime change. Case study of Tunisia, Egypt, Syria.
Kyzivát, Jan ; Novotná, Yvona (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the regime change in the context of the Arab Spring 2011 with focus on Tunisia, Egypt and Syria. The aim of the thesis is to determine factors causing different progress towards political reforms in each country. Theoretical framework is provided by characteristics of undemocratic regimes, transitions to democracy and democracy itself. Each country is introduced from the historical point of view with focus on the 20th century, especially current methods of the governance. Several conclusions are made based on analytical -- synthetical method of reviewing historical, political and socioeconomical factors determining the domestic situation in compared countries and explaining their influence on different transition progress towards the new political system.
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The Inner Development in Zimbabwe After 2000
Peľak, Branislav ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Pavlicová, Vendula (referee)
Political development in Zimbabwe after 2000 was reflected in the main issues of this country, i.e. unsuccessful land reform, which reaches up to the independence struggle, political instability and continuous effort of the ruling ZANU-PF to remain in power whatever it takes. Not only did struggles for power bring political crisis, but they also caused economical and social crisis which resulted in people in Zimbabwe realising the need for change despite their cultural roots. Formerly weak opposition gained much support. The aim of this thesis is to identify the factors of future development in Zimbabwe using the analysis of its inner political and economical arrangement.
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