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Program Development of the Czech Pirate Party
Michalová, Ivana ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
This thesis analyses selected program documents of the Czech Pirate Party for the period 2009- 2017 in terms of content of its themes. Specifically, these are the Statute and all election programs created at that time. The aim of the thesis is to determine whether the program development of the Czech Pirate Party occurred during the monitored period. From a methodological point of view, this is a content analysis supplemented by a comparative method. The thesis is based on the characteristic of the theoretical concept of the niche party, which will be presented in the first, theoretical part of thesis. The second part of the thesis takes a closer look at methodology. The third and at the same time the most comprehensive part deals with the introduction of pirate parties and the Czech Pirate Party, the actual content analysis of selected program documents and the subsequent comparison.
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Didactic analysis of the topic of civic and political participation
Matějíček, Lukáš ; Dvořáková, Michaela (advisor) ; Zicha, Zbyněk (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the concept of civic and political participation in elementary and secondary school. Introductory part of the thesis defines terms of civic and political participation, there are also findings about civic attitudes of young Czechs based on international comparative researches. The focus of the thesis is to analyze the representation of the theme of participation at different levels of the Czech education system and to compare the concept of the theme in curriculum documents of selected states. This is followed by an analysis of the approach to the topic of participation by authors of approved Czech textbooks. The analyzes show that the theme of participation is insufficiently embedded in the Czech national curriculum and these deficiencies are reflected in the approach to the topic in school educational programs and textbooks. In the light of these findings, a didactic analysis of the topic of participation is carried out. The diploma thesis sets down the theoretical minimum for a given topic. The last part presents proposals of didactic procedures in teaching focused on topics of civic and political participation. Additionally, the thesis recommends projects of non-profit institutions and other initiatives that focus on selected aspects of the topic of participation.
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Narrative construction of identity of the participants moving from civil sphere to political sphere
Skokanová, Michaela ; Šťovíčková Jantulová, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Benyovszky, Selma (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to study personal identity development of the participants who move from active civic engagement within the civil society to active political participation within the political sphere at the reginal level. The thesis focuses on personal identity and the method of its construction through life stories. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with terms such as civic engagement, political participation and concepts based on narative identity. The second part contains a research methodology. Specifically is presented which presents the narrative approach with the use of narrative interview as a research method. The third part is based on deals with the research itself. The research works with a specific case based on political and socio-historical context of the city of Usti nad Labem. The data is obtained in the form of narrative interviews with local policiticians. The results of the research have shown that there are three different ways in which the actors are self- presenting their identity in relation to the environment. It was the identity of the politician, the identity of the activist / active citizen and the identity of the politician joined with the identity of the activist. Personal identity has completely changed in the case of one person, one person has changed...
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Civic participation in Prague 10 city district - perspectives of key stakeholders
Ferjenčíková, Kristýna ; Moree, Dana (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
Civil participation is on the rise. In the district of Prague 10, it is also gaining more and more importance - at least in the field of public spaces and their restoration or transformation. In this part of Prague, thanks to civil participation, many different groups of key stakeholders such as civil servants, active citizens, and politicians meet. The main part of the thesis, thus is comprised by qualitative research based on in-depth interviews with these stakeholders. The author tries to find answers to her questions as regards the perception of civil participation by the stakeholdres themselves, as regards the role individual groups are attributed and what is the role of (lack of) trust in the process of participation. As the research shows, in this particular district, there is a wide array of obstacles the process faces. At the same time, it bears a great potential and promises of a much brighter future. In the final part of the thesis, suggestions as to further research are presented and the results are put within the context of the current research and academic writing. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Civic participation within the context of professionalized CSOs in terms of their representatives
Andruchová, Monika ; Šťovíčková Jantulová, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Deverová, Lenka (referee)
This master thesis is dealing with topic of citizen's involvement and civic participation in context of professionalized civil society organizations 's activities. The work is based on theoretical concepts of political and civic participation. Subsequently, civic participation and citizen's involvement is seen in the sense of civic activities carried out within or through civil society organizations and they include various forms in which citizens participate in public life, usually without financial reward. The paper also presents the concepts of professionalization that frame the subsequent reflection on the nature and potential of civic participation and citizen's involvement into activities of professionalized civil society organizations. The main part is a qualitative research whose aim is to describe and understand, from perspective of professionalized organization's representatives, how and why there is public participation within or through activities of the organization and what are the preferred forms and barriers of involvement and civic participation. Analysis of data obtained through in- depth interviews with representatives of professionalized civil society organizations, are discussed in the conclusion in relation to the research questions and theoretical basis Key words Civic...
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The Impact of Citizens' Initiative on the Urban Development The Case Study of Vyšehrad Station
Moravcová, Ivana ; Slámová, Eliška (advisor) ; Špačková, Petra (referee)
The aim of the bachelor theses "Význam občanských iniciativ na rozvoji města - případová studie nádraží Vyšehrad" is to find a way how the citizens' initiative are involved in the development of the city, what resources they use and whether their activity is effective. The theoretical part of the theses introduces the basics of the community theory and research of local development, there is also included an explanation of Czech laws about citizens' initiatives and the urban planning process. The research is based on the case study of Vyšehrad station and involved groups. The main methods were semi-structured interviews with involved subjects and also detailed study of documents and newspaper articles. In the research there were identified three main types of initiatives. Members of citywide associations are mainly professionals. They help locals to be able to fight for their neighborhood and be a successful participant of the urban planning process. Local movements are more powerful because of strong identification with local issues and bigger amount of time and energy of its members. But those groups are not established in the city center because they fight against big projects built in the outskirts of the city. Last group can be called citizens' initiative; those are formed by dissatisfied...
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The platform of civic participation in Czech and Slovak Republic
Slováčková, Jasmin ; Říchová, Blanka (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
The bachelor thesis "The platform of civic participation in Czech and Slovak Republic" deals with the level of communication and participation among citizens and political parties, which is accessible to a wider range of the public. The work aims to compare the presence of two social democratic parties: the Czech Social Democrat Party (ČSSD) and the Slovak party Direction-Social Democracy (SMER-SD) on their websites from 2006 to the present time. First, the work focuses on the understanding of platforms of civic participation as a subject of political participation and examines the extent to which the parties try to activate their supporters. Furthermore, the concept of civic and political culture of Almond and Verba is analysed in a narrowly defined space within the civil society between political parties and the general population. The work reveals the tendency of parties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to create internet based platforms between parties and their supporters and tries to evaluate their effectiveness. The thesis maps the creation of its content in terms of participatory, communication and marketing tools and reveals the motivations, intentions and trends of the activities of ČSSD and SMER-SD online. The work reveals the level of involvement of supporters in the parties and...
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How to invite men? Project Patron - the case study of engaging men in the areas of civic, public and private life which needs their deeper participation
Petr, Josef ; Moree, Dana (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
How to invite men? Project Patron - the case study of engaging men in the areas of civic, public and private life which needs their deeper participation Abstract The support of engagement of men in the areas of civic, private and public life which showing the lack of their involvement becomes a topic in the last decade on the level of EU and some national states. But there is just little social research focused on the practical ways how to support the engagement of men in these areas. This paper offers the view from perspective of the studies of civil society - which is especially focused on the motivations to volunteering - combined with the perspective of the studies of men and masculinities. The core of this paper is a case study of the project Patron in which the adult men creates friendly-based relationships with the young men from the institutional care and help them to manage the leaving of this care to the "real life". The aim of this research is analyze the motivation of these men which leads to their participation on this project - mainly in the relations to the experience of manhood and masculinity. This paper offers the basic findings in the form of assumptions which can be used in the following social research and also as the practical inspiration for projects and organisations which want to...
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Deepening democracy at the local level / Civic participation in Utrecht
Blahetová, Kristýna ; Skovajsa, Marek (advisor) ; Hrubeš, Milan (referee)
This thesis focuses on the topic of active citizenship in democratic societies. An emphasis is placed on the clarification of the role of the citizen as an engaged actor who has the right to influence political processes and decision-making at the local level. Democracy is seen from a variety of angles in the theoretical part, particular attention is given to participatory democracy and deliberation. The practical part is devoted to the research that was carried out in the Dutch city Utrecht, where the specific tools used for engaging citizens in policy- making were investigated together with motivations of public officials as well as citizens to support civic participation. This thesis attempts to provide a picture of the functioning of democratic principles in Utrecht with reference to an example of good practice. Keywords democracy, democracy at the local level, participatory democracy, citizenship, participation, deliberation, tools of civic participation, civic participation, political participation
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