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The party-based Euroscepticism : comparative study of the Czech ODS and British Conservative Party
Česká, Tereza ; Polášek, Martin (advisor) ; Koubek, Jiří (referee)
This thesis is about a comparative analysis of the Czech Civic Democratic Party and British Conservative party in terms of the euroscepticism. The student will be dealing with the time period from 2008 to the present. In the first part of the thesis the definition of euroscepticism and its classification will be presented with special focus on Taggart's theory. In the second part, the theory will be applied to the political parties. the aim of the work is to define the type of euroscepticism, compare its manifestation and determine whether in the selected time period the euroscepticism changed and if so, what caused this change (or the stability) of the advocated position.
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Government versus Trade Unions: Contribution to the Study of the Miners᾽ Strike in the 1980s᾽ Britain
Šmigol, Ondřej ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
The thesis focuses on the analysis of the miners' strike in Great Britain in years 1984-1985. It examines its roots in the 1970s, the failure of the Edward Heath's administration and Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government preparation for the strike. The main emphasis is laid on the analysis of the course of the strike. It examines in detail the period between March 1984 and March 1985, when National Union of Mineworkers decided to strike against the policies of Margaret Thatcher. It analyses the way the strike started, the strategies, achievements and errors of both sides of the dispute. It extensively deals with the manifestations of violence during the strike and with the situation of the miners' families. The last chapter mentions the consequences of the strike.
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Interpretations of a negative result of the British parliament vote on military intervention in Syria
Nováková, Denisa ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Rovná, Lenka (referee)
On August 21 2013 a massive chemical attack took place in Syria. On the basis of the attack the British Prime Minister convened parliament and asked the House of Commons for the approval of a military intervention in Syria. The government motion was however disapproved by 285:272 votes and therefore the possible military intervention and the further voting on this issue was blocked. Right after the vote a series of possible causes and consequences occurred. This bachelor thesis "Interpretations of a negative result of the British parliament vote on military intervention in Syria" tries to systematically analyze possible causes and identify the main factors, which contributed to the negative result. Then it tries to justify why Britain as a country with long history of humanitarian intervention refused to intervene in a country where one of the greatest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century takes place. Moreover when a military intervention in Libya took place under the current government. At the same time the bachelor thesis puts an emphasis on the character of the Syrian conflict, British political discourse in the context of a military intervention and experience with foreign-political interventions. Then it also analyses the allocation of seats in the British parliament, current state in a...
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The British Conservative Party in the 1950s: Continuity or Change?
Řanda, Tomáš ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
In this bachelor thesis the author will focus on the analysis of the activity of British Conservative Party in the 1950s. In particular he will study a reaction of Conservatives on the failure in the general election in 1945, the Party's reforms and revival and victorious elections in 1951. Further author will focus on the analysis of functioning of the Conservatives as a Party-in-Government, i.e. on the analysis of the realization of the election programme of the Tories, on their approach to the Welfare State made by the Labour Party and to Labour Party itself, on the analysis of the government's activities in home and foreign affairs, and last but not least on the analysis of the causes and consequences of achievements in elections in the 1950s.
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Euroscepticism and its position in Great Britain
Beránková, Barbora ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee)
Euroscepticism is considered as a stream of thoughts whch is typical of the EU distrust or of the European integration and its goals as such. The most common objections to joining the integration proces are loss of national sovereignty, not paying enough attention to national interests or too strict policy unification that does not allow for national particularities. This master thesis will focus on euroscepticism as a concept, il will analyze its ideological roots and the most frequent arguments in favour of this concept. Furthermore, it will analyze various classifications of euroscepticism as well as its potential to be called a new cleavage or even ideology as I suggest that there is no widely-accepted definition. Great Britain - a representative of traditionally very sceptical approach towards European integration project has been chosen as a model case. In this case study firstly, the development of potential eurosceptical thinking within the Conservative Party and the Labour Party will be explored. More importantly, it will concentrate on the (in)consistency of their European policies in time, analysis of their attitudes in the 21st century and finally it will try to derive the future development of their possible eurosceptical opinions from their current manifestos and public speeches. The...
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The Transformation of the British Labour Party in years 1994-1997
Onesork, Jaroslav ; Lebeda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Polinec, Martin (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find the cause of success of the British Labour Party in general election in 1997. In addition to examining the assumptions for this victory the work also focuses on the search for the roots and the beginning of an ideological transformation "old" Labour Party into "new" called New Labour under Tony Blair in years 1994-1997. This paper applies case study metodology. In conclusion identifies the key moments of transformation and raises the question whether and to what extent this success can be generalized and applied to other social democratic parties.
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Contribution to Development of Economy and Politics in Great Britain under the Government of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden during the Years 1951-1957
Třešňáková, Martina ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Fabianková, Klára (referee)
The goal of this final thesis is to give a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal policy of the Conservative Party from 1951 to 1957. Under the government of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden the United Kingdom faced a number of economic and political problems, which in turn influenced its economic development. The British government tried to stop the decreasing trend of the economy in relation to other states through interventionist economic policy, which in the Great Britain is known as policy stop and go. It especially focuses on the post-war period and the consequences of the government of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. Based on foreign sources British economy suffered mainly by four economic problems, accelerating inflation, lack of economic growth, the uneven balance of payments and low productivity growth.
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Economic and political development of Great Britain during Harold Macmillan's government (1957-1963)
Myšák, Lukáš ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Kovář, Martin (referee)
My master's thesis focuses on analysis of political and economic development of Great Britain in 1957 -- 1964 period, when the Conservative Party was in charge, led firstly by H. Macmillan and then A. Home. After Macmillan gained the post of Prime minister, due to the Suez crisis, I present an analysis of British domestic economy, whose good condition led to conservative election victory of 1959. Then I analyze the shift of British government towards decolonization of Africa and also the British decision to join ECC (predeceased with EFTA agreement). Furthermore, there is an analysis of reasons behind H. Macmillan's resignation, which were mainly of medical character. Third part of my work is considering the Home government, his position as the Prime minister and development of British economy during early 1960's. Thesis is concluded by analysis of 1964's election, where the Labour Party achieved slim victory over the Conservative Party, and therefore was able to form a government.
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General election 2010 and formation of coalition government in Great Britain from the perspective of coalition theory
Boroňová, Martina ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Reschová, Jana (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the general election and post-election development in Great Britain in 2010 and focuses on formation and composition of the coalition government. Goal of the work is to identify the reasons why the Liberal Democrats preferred the Conservatives to the Labour Party and to find out whether is the decision based on the theory of coalitions. Through application of the theory of coalitions and three criterions: size, number of the members and ideological distance, the work analyzes possible outcomes of the election, concretely the possible minimal winning coalitions. In order to answer what option are the most suitable to the various criterions, the work discusses the ideology of the main election participants, analyzes their attitude to current issues of Great Britain and mentions the election results. By comparing the various options, the bachelor thesis finds out the decision of the Liberal Democrats can be found on the theory of coalitions in case of selection of number of members criterion which is promoted by British bi-partisanship.
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