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The Development of the agrarian party in the oeriod of the Firsz Czechoslovak Republic
Štuller, Jan ; Stracený, Josef (advisor) ; Zicha, Zbyněk (referee)
The Bachelor's thesis focuses on the development of Czech, later Czechoslovak Agrarian Party. The thesis describes the background of the Agrarian Party and its gradual boom before the establishment of Czechoslovakia. The Party's founders and first political leaders from the second half of the 19th century are mentioned. The thesis also describes the Agrarian Party's attitude during the First World War and the establishment of Czechoslovakia. However, the thesis emphasizes mainly the Party's political activity during the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918-1935. Furthermore, it describes results of elections from 1920 to 1935 and discusses the formation and activities of government coalitions. The text provides an overview of agrarian politicians in the highest governmental functions who made important political decisions. The thesis deals with the gradual development of the Party during the First Republic and also its internal conflicts. It describes Party congresses and organizational rise of the Party. Moreover, it illustrates the Party's attitudes towards other political parties or presidents of the Republic. The thesis also describes programming requirements and objectives of the Agrarian Party since its beginning up to 1935. The text characterizes the idea of agrarianism, the conceptual basis...
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Vztah efektivní míry zdanění příjmů fyzických osob a politicko-ekonomického cyklu v ČR
Pavlíčková, Tereza
The bachelor thesis describes the relationship between the political business cy-cle and the effective tax rate of individuals in the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2015. The aim of this thesis is to create a model specifying this relationship. The theoretical part describes the approaches to modeling the political business cycle, the current way of taxing income and its development, including social and health insurance contributions. The practical part of the thesis is consisted on an econ-ometric model which is based on calculations of effective tax rates for model tax-payers and date of parliamentary elections. The model describes the relationship between the first differences of effective tax rates and the date of parliamentary elections, which is assessed in terms of possible occurrence of the political-economic cycle.
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Vplyv politického cyklu na deficity štátneho rozpočtu Slovenskej republiky
Kadlečíková, Veronika
The bachelor thesis concerns the problematics of political cycles and fiscal policy abuse in the pre-election period. The political cycle is defined as the systematic abuse of fiscal policy by the government. Politicians are using the state budget in the bordering period before the parliamentary elections in order to influence the economic growth and unemployment, with an aim of being re-elected. In the empirical part of the thesis is being tested the existence of political-budget cycle in the Slovak Republic over the examined period 1996 - 2014 using the three applied models.
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The Friends and Neighbours Effect and Its Relevance to Voting Behaviour in Czech Parliamentary Elections
Pileček, Radek ; Kostelecký, Tomáš (advisor) ; Daněk, Petr (referee)
Voter decision-making about which political party to support in the elections is a very complex process. One of the key factors influencing our voting behaviour is the effect of particular candidates in terms of their local activities. Many Czech and also foreign studies show that candidates gain significantly higher preferences in the municipality of their residence and its surroundings. Within the analyzed parliamentary elections, this is reflected not only by the territorial concentration of preferential votes, but also by higher local electoral support of the political parties or movements represented by these candidates. This diploma thesis examines, among other things, differences in the strength of the described effect (technically called the friends and neighbours effect) between candidates from different political parties and in different regions of Czechia. Quantitative research has shown greater local strength and spatial extent of friends and neighbours effect for leading candidates from non-metropolitan areas who have experiences from local or regional politics, such as mayors or regional councilors. In the 2017 parliamentary elections, the friends and neighbours effect mostly influenced the spatial patterns of electoral support of the KDU-ČSL and the STAN movement and on the other...
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Economic Policy in Parliament election context in 2017 - Comparative content analysis
Lerch, Jakub ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
The presented thesis 'Economic Policy in Parliament election context in 2017' is describing the media image of successful political parties prior to the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in Czech Republic in October 2017. Mass media act as an intermediator of contact between the political parties or politicians themselves and voters and they have a crucial impact on the party's public appearance and image that is being presented. Especially during the pre-election period are media concerned about the political actions, decisions and election programs. The analysis is focused on the media attention and media space dedicated to the electoral and political topics. Chosen newspapers are Hospodářské noviny and Lidové noviny that represent serious approach in reporting the news. The method of quantitative content analysis allows to show the media space given, describe the type, format and main focus of the texts published. The diploma thesis describes also the political communication according to the theory of the political business cycles. The method of quantitative content analysis benefits from using a large scale of data and showing relevant conclusions at the same time.
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Coalition policy of small parties in the Czech Republic after the elections 2017
Sobotková, Dominika ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
This thesis deals with the position of small parties in the Czech parliamentary system after the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in autumn 201. The main focus is holding on the period from the official start of the election campaign on 2 May 2017 until the press release of selected parties after signing Coaliton on 10 July 2018. At the same time this paper focuses on the strategies of small political entities in the negotiations on the government in a situation where the election winner became the ANO movement and the only candidate for the prime minister is the prosecuted Andrej Babiš. Attention is paid to the strategy of the small political subjects, when they are faced with deciding whether to give priority to offices in the government and the opportunity to push through their political agenda or decide to keep the voters' promise and remain in opposition. The issue is examined from the perspective of the smallest political entities in the Chamber of Deputies - KDU-ČSL, TOP 09 and STAN. Emphasis is also placed on putting the issue into the context of the Czech party system and the ability of small parties to promote their program in the past. The aim of the thesis is to create a case study giving an explanation of the coalition strategy of small political parties and movements, which got...
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Population Characteristics of Voters: Evidence from the Czech Parliamentary Election
Černý, Jakub ; Janský, Petr (advisor) ; Želinský, Tomáš (referee)
In 2017, nine political parties were elected into the Czech Parliament, which is the greatest number in the history of the country. This thesis analyses the voter turnout and results of particular parties, using aggregated data on the municipal level. The goal is to find a spectrum of variables that would un- cover connections between the population characteristics of voters and their decisions to vote and to choose a political party. The method of weighted least squares is used for estimation and the results are tested for the presence of spa- tial autocorrelation. Subsequently, a spatial error model is used for the same analysis in order to observe spatial effects in the voting results and provide a comparison between the methods. There is found a significant negative con- nection between the voter turnout and the share of people facing distraints, unemployment, and the share of people with no education. Concerning the election results, the parties ANO, SPD, and KSCM receive greater support in municipalities with greater unemployment and lower shares of businessmen and people with university education. On the other hand, the parties ODS, Pirati, and TOP 09 evince exactly the opposite trends in these explanatory variables. JEL Classification H70, I21, I30, J10, J11 Keywords voting behaviour, voter...
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Negotiations on the executive coalition after parliamentary elections in 2017 in the Czech Republic
Kornetová, Kateřina ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
This thesis deals with the political situation in the Czech Republic since the parliamentary elections in October 2017 till the successful vote on the government's confidence in July 2018. It focuses specifically on the relations between the political parties, the reasons for refusing cooperation with the winner of the elections, and the motives for a participation on the executive coalition. Emphasis is placed on the parliamentary actors who have fundamentally influenced the emergence of the government. Furthermore, the work clarifies the social environment and important events during the period that was related to the coalition negotiations. At the same time, the text focuses on the role of the President in the formation of the government. Since he is the first directly elected president, the thesis tries to answer the question whether there are visible differences between the two previous indirectly elected presidents of the Czech Republic and current president Miloš Zeman. The thesis also examines the breadth of presidential powers over the government and seeks a possible overrun of powers. The main objective of the work is to verify whether the president extends his power beyond the constitution. For this purpose is uses the comparison of realities with the Constitution of the Czech Republic,...
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The position of political parties in the Czech Republic on migration
Holbičková, Monika ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to answer research questions concerning the attitudes of the President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman selected political subjects and their chairmen to migration. For selected political subjects the goal is to find out what attitude they are whether their election programs from 2013 and 2017 include the issue of the migration crisis or if so how much this issue is in the programs. For the research where selected political entities which exceeded the threshold for entry into the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic at least in one case of the Parliamentary elections in years 2013 and 2017. Researched political subjects are: ANO, ČPS, ČSSD, KDU-ČSL, KSČM, ODS, SPD, STAN, TOP 09 and Úsvit. The analysis deals with which attitudes to the migration crisis have the chairmen of selected political subjects, whether they change over a given time frame and whether they agree with the political entity they represent. The thesis also deals with the attitude of the President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman to the migration crisis and whether it changes during the specified period of time. The researched time period is from January 2013 to December 2017. Research is done through quantitative content analysis. Variables of analysis are: refugee crisis...
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Disinformation tendencies on selected news websites during the Czech parliamentary election 2017
Červenková, Markéta ; Zápotocký, Jan (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
Dezinformační tendence na vybraných zpravodajských webech během voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny 2017 Markéta Červenková Abstrakt v anglickém jazyce The diploma thesis is dedicated to the topic of media manipulation and disinformation warfare in the context of an election. Over the past few years, a new breed of discussions about the influence of disinformation on political affairs has emerged. The aim of the diploma thesis is to investigate whether any disinformation tendencies or manipulative techniques have spread over the Czech media landscape during the Parliamentary election in 2017. In the first part of this work, the author will provide a theoretical background to the topic, including an explanation of the essential terms and current context of these phenomena. The second part includes the content analysis (complemented by hermeneutic text analysis) that is applied to selected news websites. As the result, the diploma thesis is supposed to provide the data about the source of information, the genre of the articles and specific manipulative techniques used in the selected media.
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