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Political aspects of local government – elections and voting behaviour of inhabitants of municipalities of Blovice city
Jan, Jaroslav ; Kopřiva, Radek (advisor)
Despite the transformation of party systems both at the national and sub-national political decision-making levels of politics, the hallmark of local political life of the municipality of Blovice city is a relative stability of the local party system. This fact is the basis of the Master thesis which aims to assess the nature of the electoral behavior of the local electorate in the elections to the municipal council with the ambition to evaluate the utility of the theory that is based on locally contextual interpretation. Partial objectives of the thesis that contribute to the main goal are the following: a description of the results of elections that are decisive for a development of the party system of Blovice city, a description of variables that underlie the permanent electoral support for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and the characteristics of electoral behavior of the local electorate. Thesis will be designed as a case study. A research will be based on voting decisions of electorate of Blovice city. The objects of the research will be the voters who participate in the elections to the municipal council and representatives of local politics and territorial autonomy. Value attitudes and voting behavior of voters will be assessed on the basis of data obtained by questionnaire. Electoral support of parties will be evaluated on the basis of data from unstructured interviews with local politicians (especially those from the party ODS). A local political life and in particular the election results will be described thanks to data published by the Czech Statistical Office (available on www.volby.cz).
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Political aspects of local government – elections and voting behaviour of inhabitants of municipalities of Blovice city
Jan, Jaroslav ; Kopřiva, Radek (advisor)
Despite the transformation of party systems both at the national and sub-national political decision-making levels of politics, the hallmark of local political life of the municipality of Blovice city is a relative stability of the local party system. This fact is the basis of the Master thesis which aims to assess the nature of the electoral behavior of the local electorate in the elections to the municipal council with the ambition to evaluate the utility of the theory that is based on locally contextual interpretation. Partial objectives of the thesis that contribute to the main goal are the following: a description of the results of elections that are decisive for a development of the party system of Blovice city, a description of variables that underlie the permanent electoral support for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and the characteristics of electoral behavior of the local electorate. Thesis will be designed as a case study. A research will be based on voting decisions of electorate of Blovice city. The objects of the research will be the voters who participate in the elections to the municipal council and representatives of local politics and territorial autonomy. Value attitudes and voting behavior of voters will be assessed on the basis of data obtained by questionnaire. Electoral support of parties will be evaluated on the basis of data from unstructured interviews with local politicians (especially those from the party ODS). A local political life and in particular the election results will be described thanks to data published by the Czech Statistical Office (available on www.volby.cz).
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Assessment of quality of public spaces: case study Smichov, Prague 5
Stuchlý, Lumír ; Novotný, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Macoun, Milan (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims describe and analyze the relevance and quality of public spaces in the current environment Smíchov. The studied area covers a surface on the territory of central Smíchov, bordered from the north of Vítězná street, further south down the street Vltavská, from the east bordered by the left bank of the river of embankment Vltava and from west bordered by street Drtinova, Kartouzská and Radlická street.
The thesis consists of two parts. The first part is devoted to a literature search, which contains the definition of public space and its individual categories. The second part is a description and evaluation the area in question. In the second part is the evaluation the results of the research and areas that are evaluated by means of graphs.
The bachelor thesis is based on the available theoretical materials and the results of local surveys of each public spaces.
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Analysis and evaluation of landscape changes - case study Ricany
Bělunková, Šárka ; Skaloš, Jan (advisor) ; Pavel, Pavel (referee)
In this study is researched historical development of the Říčany landscape. Using stable cadastre maps, aerial photographs from 1953 and current aerial photographs is researched the development of the landscape elements. Further the spatial analyzess of defelopment these landscape elements are performed. Based on scientific texts and in cooperation with the Museum of Říčany city are discussed causes of identified landscape changes. The greatest changes were observed in arable land. In this landscape element decreased the total area from 63,40 % to 38,69 %. In this place, there occurred mainly for the development of built-up areas (from 0,76 % to 10,42 %) and urban green areas (from 1,20 % to 18,17 %). On the other hand, the most constant remained the forests. This area was increased by only 1,84 % and their spatial area kept almost unchanged. The data collected in this work could be used theoretically and also practically. Theoretical use consist in understanding of the functioning of landsccape changes. Practically, the results could be used by the municipal authority as a basis for various landscape adjustments of the Říčany city.
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Temporal and spatial changes of woody vegetation at the landscape - case study (former Vrchlabi estate)
Juřičková, Beata ; Skaloš, Jan (advisor) ; Keken, Zdeněk (referee)
This dissertation deals with a temporal and spatial changes of woody vegetation at the landscape in West Bohemia. The case study helps to recognise a historical development of the landscape and focuses on landscape elements of forest and non-forest woody vegetation.
Focused area was determined by borders of former Vrchlabi manor and based on historical documents. The chosen area partly belongs to zone 1, 2 and 3 of Krkonose National Park.
Forest and non-forest woody vegetation was compared from different sources- a map of Imperial imprints of the stable Cadastre from 1843, an aerial images from 1950 and an orthophoto images from 2014 - using ArcGIS software. Woody vegetation was divided into forest category and other three non-forest woody category- draws, acompanying woody vegetation and line.
The results have shown that the most consistent category has always been the forest, spreading on 42,25% of the area in last 171 years. The non-forest woody vegetation was developing erratically and was covering the largest area of 335,21 ha in 1950. Data analysis have shown that each period of forest and non-forest woody vegetation has its own specific trends.
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The Development of Local Government in the Municipality of Horní Cerekev
Toman, Radek ; Kubálek, Michal (advisor) ; Kristýna, Kristýna (referee)
The thesis deals with the development of local government in the village of Horni Cerekev. The work is conceived as a case study. Thematic framework for the work starts in 1990 and continues to the present. The work depicts Individual municipal elections as an element shaping the local political environment and summarizes the development of the political scene in relation to local government. The introductory part describes the basic theoretical background of the local rural area of the municipality. The work is based on political science theory. The work also defines the context and specificity of municipal elections, the basic characteristics of the typology of the political scene municipalities, mayor types including municipal systems. The theoretical part sets the basis for the practical part. Describing the socio-economic indicators of the village continues in the practical part of the work focusingon on semi-structured interviews to evaluate the local political scene, principles of functioning of local party system and identification of political participants.
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Political Aspects of Local Government - The Case Study of Municipality Mirovice
Smolová, Veronika ; Kopřiva, Radek (advisor) ; Lenka, Lenka (referee)
The political aspects of local government, case study of municipality Mirovice thesis is focused on the issue of elections to municipal Mirovice in the period between 2002 and 2014 and the voting behaviour of its inhabitants, turnout in comparison with the results from the entire district Písek and in total with the Czech Republic. The aim is to verify the applicability of the models of electoral behaviour of the population in local elections.
The theoretical part contains definitions of basic concepts such as democracy,
the characteristics of self-government, elections and electoral behaviour. The Practical part includes characterization of the municipality Mirovice, characteristics of its inhabitants
and their participation in elections. To confirm or reject the suitability of the theory of voting behaviour the both positive and negative relations with elected parties, we will make survey as a part of the practical part of the thesis. The satisfaction of local citizens with the work of city councils takes the thesis also into consideration.
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The Development of Local Government in the Municipality of Kamenný Újezd
Rysl, Jan ; Kubálek, Michal (advisor) ; Daniela, Daniela (referee)
This dissertation focuses on current issues of Kamenný Újezd´s local council. Kamenný Újezd is a municipality with over two thousand inhabitants. This assessment looks into the local political process in the municipality. This assessment is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. Theoretical part focuses on the local councils, general establishments and elections into the local authorities in the Czech Republic. It also focuses on local political partisanship, coalition and the theory of political cleavage. The practical part of the dissertation describes some demographic and socioeconomics indicators in the municipality. Majority of the practical part is devoted to the local elections from 1994 - 2014. The results from these elections are put into graphs and charts. The collected data is then compared. In the last part of the dissertation are interviews with local politicians. Main public and political problems in the municipality are discussed. Also public relations and main political cleavages between individual politicians are discussed in these interviews.
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Selection and implementation of the information system for a project construction company
Spurný, Pavel ; Ulman, Miloš (advisor) ; Martin, Martin (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of information systems targeted at Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The theoretical part defines basic terminology and creates thereby the theoretical base of the issue of a company´s information systems (IS). Then an analysis of the influence of implementation of information technologies into SMEs is carried out determining the development of the region. The practical part of the thesis is based on a case study dealing with the implementation of the information system QI for a medium-sized project construction company. The case study captures the whole process consisting of the selection of the product, pre-instalment analysis, implementation of the IS, training of the users leading to the system fully operating live. Built on that is then the following economic calculation of the implementation of the IS. The portability of the used solution is then assessed and the resulting outcome of the IS for the company is then evaluated. Drawbacks of the whole process are identified and their solutions are suggested.
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Political Aspeckts of Local Government – Voting Behavior of Inhabitans of the Town Jičín
Stránská, Michaela ; Kopřiva, Radek (advisor) ; Lenka, Lenka (referee)
The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the voting behavior of the citizens of the city of Jičín. The theoretical part deals with local democracy, introduces the voting system or different researches of voting behavior. The mainstay of this thesis is the practical part consisting of case study, whose task is to analyze behavior of Jičín citizens. The author of this thesis determined four tasks. First one is the implementation of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of Jičín, enabling to conclude the voting behavior of its citizens. The other task is the analysis of election results in 2006, 2010 and 2014. Further is analyzed the voter turnout in Jičín and political parties which participated in past years are introduced. The third task is the qualitative research in the form of interview with the Jičínský Demokratický Klub leader and city's councilor. In the last part is conducted quantitative research, which will enable to answer the questions, regarding election behavior of citizens of Jičín.
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