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The effect of rainfall on voter turnout: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Kubíková, Kristina ; Palanský, Miroslav (advisor) ; Šťastná, Lenka (referee)
Existing research suggests that rainfall on election days has, at least under some circumstances, a significant negative effect on voter turnout. The purpose of this thesis is to assess whether this is also the case in the Czech Republic. The results support the hypothesis, with the preferred specification suggesting that one additional millimeter (mm) of precipitation on election day is associated with a drop in turnout rates of around 0.26 to 0.38 percentage points. We find that election type plays a key role in determining the effect of rainfall on voter's participation. For the elections to the Chamber of Deputies, we find evidence of an inverted U-shape relationship, consistent with the notion that small amounts of rain do not play a significant role in an important election, while heavy rain (around 6mm and more) decreases turnout with every additional mm of rain. For the elections to the European Parliament, which are generally perceived as less important, we find turnout to be negatively associated with even smaller amounts of rain: one additional mm of rain is associated with a 0.82 percentage point decrease in the turnout rate. Finally, we study the link between the closeness of the election results, precipitation, and turnout, and we find that for important elections, a close fight...
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Technology of Online Voting Systems
Kováč, Michal ; Sedláček, Pavel (referee) ; Froehling, Kenneth (advisor)
Tato práce pojednává o konceptu volení online. Krátce popisuje jaké další volební metody se v demokratických zemí používají. Detailně popisuje země které používají online volení (celostátně a částečně) a take země, které pilotovali nebo zkoušeli používat online volby a také z jakého důvodu přestali. V posledních dvou částech se práce zabývá pozitivy a negativy které online volební systémy mohou představovat, včetně analýzy volebních dat z Estonska.
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Early Voting in the U.S. Election System
Horký, Miroslav ; Kotábová, Věra (advisor) ; Švec, Radek (referee)
The bachelor thesis Early voting in the U. S. Election System deals with the concept, which aims to significantly simplify the election process to increase the turnout and make the access to electoral process easier to most people. The bachelor thesis defines terms early voting and absentee voting and its expansion. The analysis is also focused on differences between Election day voters and early voters. The operation of early voting in practice is illustrated in three cases from states Florida, Oregon and Virginia. Advantages and disadvantages of this type of voting and view to the future are presented in final part of thesis. The emphasis is also placed on the global expansion of this type of voting, which allows to cast ballot prior the Election day. The current electoral system of the Czech Republic, which does not allow to vote early is also mentioned in thesis.
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Voters and Non-voters in the Czech Republic
Vavřinová, Tereza ; Linek, Lukáš (advisor) ; Hendl, Jan (referee)
This study discusses voting behavior of the citizens in The Czech republic. Traditional studies of voting behavior differentiate between voters and nonvoters according to their turnout in one election. This thesis takes up multielection approach and differentiates three categories of voting behavior- voters, nonvoters and irregular voters. Specific features of voters, nonvoters and irregular voters are identified using logistic regression analysis. Theoretically, the study is based on socioeconomic, motivational and mobilization theories of turnout. The focus is put on the decision making of irregular voters. Circumstances tied with irregular voters' turnout are identified. The discussion on methodological problems connected with multi-election approach and research of electoral behavior generally is part of the thesis. The Czech election study 2010 is a main source of the data for analysis.
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Upgrading of Viskafors Railway Station
Blaňková, Monika ; Melecký, Martin (referee) ; Svoboda, Richard (advisor)
The main aim of the diploma thesis is reconstruction of Viskafors railway station and its adjacent track at KM146+ 800 - 145+ 700 so as to satisfy the current traffic and at the same time the legislation is met. The tracks geometry and turnouts in the station was solved according to Swedish and Czech standards and conventions. As part of the reconstruction, the connection of the service track was resolved from the north side.
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The analysis of dynamic effects in the frog region of railway turnout
Balash, Arsen ; Pazdera, Luboš (referee) ; Smutný, Jaroslav (advisor)
This thesis is focused on measurement and analysis of dynamic effects on railway turnouts. Two same-type turnouts with different fastening elasticity were chosen. My attention was focused mainly on the crossing part of the turnout, where the highest dynamic impacts occur. The point of the thesis is comparison of the crossing part of turnouts in term of dynamic behaviour and assessment of influence of soft rail pads on spread of dynamic energy through the construction. A part of the thesis is choice of methodology of the measurement and proposal of convenient mathematical apparatus for analysing of the dynamic effects on crossings.
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Design of junction point Jistebník
Talapka, Filip ; Janoušek, Jan (referee) ; Plášek, Otto (advisor)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to design a rail connection between the corridor track Přerov – Ostrava and a high-speed track Přerov – Ostrava near the village Jistebník. The flyover interconnections are designed in all four directions for a maximum speed of 160 km / h. The proposal is divided into two basic variants – the minimization of land occupation and the minimization of engineering objects.
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The relation between the visitors of football matches and the club FK Dukla Praha
Kaprálková, Michaela ; Waic, Marek (advisor) ; Šíma, Jan (referee)
Title: The relation between the visitors of football matches and club FK Dukla Praha. Objectives: The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to find out, what influences the relation of the visitors of the football matches FK Dukla Praha to the football club. After that,there will be formulated a recommendatiton in this thesis, what kind of desirable steps should be done by the management of the club to pursuit the expectations of the visitors,watchers and fans, or if it should directly change some of the intentions, that should be related to the historical and social aspects. Methods: There is firstly done a research of the secondary data in this work. Then there are used as well kvantitative and kvalitative methods to gain primary data. To be concrete - those are semistructured interviews and kvantitative research. Results: The results of this work shows that the asked respondents, and mainly the generation Y, mostly don't have a relation to the club. Concurrently, there was found out,that the vision of the club is unclear and the influencing of the visitors is inhomogeneous. The problem of unclear concept is simultaneously found in case of fanclub of FK Dukla Praha. The recommendation to the leadership is to start a unite vision and main motto, what wouldn't be taken as a legacy to the past. There...
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Influence of the revitalization of the lower area of vítkovice on the tourism of the moravian-silesian region
Mojžíšová, Kristýna ; Jarolímková, Liběna (advisor) ; Valentová, Jana (referee)
The brownfields are described from theoretical point of view in the theoretical part of my bachelor´s thesis. The timelines of the visit rates of the Lower area of Vítkovice Moravian-Silesian Region and another four chosen attractions in the region are analysed in the practical part. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the number of visitors of the Lower area of Vítkovice and then look for links in between the visit rates of Lower area of Vítkovice and the overall visit rates of the Moravian-Silesian Region. Furthemore the continuity in between the number of visitors of the object and the turnout of the four chosen attractions is being examined in the thesis.
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