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Causes of the actual ODS crisis
Zunt, Štěpán ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
Bachelor thesis Causes of the actual ODS crisis deals with finding the reasons for the current state of the ODS. This party was one of the most important parties in the nineties of the twentieth century and determined the direction of the entire Czech political events. At present the party has only 16 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the situation has not improved much. The first part focuses on the theoretical concept of parties and their definition. With this chapter ODS can be defined as conservative-liberal party. Another part focuses on the history and development of the ODS, there is already outlined what possible reasons could get the side into the current crisis. In the last part is a selection of the most important moments of the party, but also events that are completely unrelated to ODS. It has been selected six key things while three were later proved to be the reasons that led to the current crisis. The first reason is that the party is unable to cope with its program of transformation and could not find another key topic. The departure of its founder Vaclav Klaus had the negative impact on the side. The third reason is the emergence of new parties, due to this fact the party is losing voters.
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Populist tendencies in the election programs of established political parties since 2008
Petřík, Hynek ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Franěk, Jakub (referee)
Thesis called "Populist tendencies in the election programs of established political parties since 2006" is focused on presence of populism by traditional Czech political parties. At the beginning the thesis tries to define populism, describe its basic elements and confronts them after with an individual election programs of researched parties. These researched parties are ČSSD, ODS, TOP 09 and KDU-ČSL. From the analysis of election programs should be obvious which elements of populism individual parties use and what is their amount. This thesis aims to find out how these established parties take a stand to these topics, most often used by Czech politics. In the next part it will attempt to explain how these tendencies get to the programs, whether as a response to the phenomenon of the time or in response to other political parties. In the end there will be paid attention to promises which could be defined as populist and if they were fulfilled when the parties got mandates.
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Media image of Jana Nagyova on media scandal "Abused of Military Intelligence"
Šotková, Martina ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (referee)
The intention of my thesis is to analyze "the image of Jana Nagyova on media scandal "Abuse of Military Intelligence"in the period of June 1st 2013 to December 31th 2013 and from May 11th 2015 to July 31st 2015. It is dependent on every single phase of that case and incorporating the large social effects as well. I focused on the semantic forms of the headlines printed by daily Blesk, Mlada fronta Dnes and Pravo. In this research, I decided to use a quantitative analysis based on the answering of the basic hypothesis. This hypothesis is called: it is possible to blamed Jana N. based just by these kinds of headlines, before getting the verdict in this cause? To be more specific: it is possible that all these headlines were prepared to affect the reader's perception of Jana N. including her judgment in the moral, the social or in criminal law ? I also tried to analyze if it could be possible to find the basic differences between the newspapers as it is so- called and the investigative journalism in general. My thesis is divided into two main parts. The first one is based on the theory and it contains a description of that cause and a short theoretical excursion. The second part contains a description of the research methodology following the essence of that analysis. In conclusion of my thesis...
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Comparison of personal brands perception - the case of party leaders ODS and TOP 09
Kolder, Tomáš ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on the concept of branding in politics. The main aim of this piece of work is comparison of perception of brand personality. In this case, the party leader Petr Fiala by ODS and Karel Schwarzenberg by TOP 09, have been chosen for this research. The brand value was assessed by procedures which were suggested by K. L. Keller. The OCEAN concept, created by Gerard Saucier, was used for brand personality research, which is the main pillar of this thesis. The sample of 212 students of political science and economics took part in the above mentioned research.
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Anti - corruption strategies of political parties ODS and ČSSD in the sense of individual and systemic corruption
Pavlíková, Laura ; Frič, Pavol (advisor) ; Tomášek, Marcel (referee)
The phenomenon of corruption has recently become a hot discussion topic of all political parties. Separate chapters, focused specifically on the fight with corruption, are implemented into the parties' political programmes. However, despite the demonstrated endeavour to fight corruption, it seems that solutions of this major issue keep failing. Theorists, who specialize in corruption issues, agree that in the Czech Republic, corruption has already become a systemic issue. That means that it is no more just a pathological behaviour of individuals within the official norms. Vice versa, corruption has already progressed into the stage, where it creates its own norms. Moreover, these newly created norms are stronger than the official norms, and, this way, it is the incorrupt behaviour, which is now perceived as pathological. Fighting systemic corruption obviously requires different tools than fighting individual corruption. Being collective players, political parties use framing to depict the problem so that the solution they offer seems to be the only and the best. This bachleor's thesis illustrates how two major political parties in the Czech Republic - Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) - look on the phenomenon of corruption and how they reflect it in their...
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Construction of Media Reality during Mirek Topolánek's Resignation Period
Renovica, Vera ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
The thesis Construction of Media Reality during Mirek Topolánek's Resignation Period analyses a total of 294 instances of media output published or broadcast between 20th March and 1st April 2010 and dealing with Mirek Topolanek's resignation from his positions within the ODS in the context of his statements for LUI Magazine. The interview dealt with the Jewish faith, homosexual orientation or the voters of the ČSSD. The theoretical part of the thesis elucidates themes related to the construction of reality as described by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, media routines, which can contribute to this phenomenon, and the creation of myth according to Roland Barthes. The research part of the thesis uses the propositions of Critical Discourse Analysis with an emphasis on Critical Linguistics, to isolate discourses, which were used to establish a connection between Topolánek's statements for LUI Magazine and his exit from the ODS and politics in general. A partial analysis also notices how the linguistic tools of tabloid and non-tabloid media were brought closer together. Finally, the Semiotic Analysis focuses on the caricatures of Mirek Topolánek and identifies myths which served as a basis for perceiving his image and the possibility of his further political career.
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Comparison of Political Parties ODS and TOP09: Program versus Reality
Batko, Martin ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Trávníček, Matěj (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Comparison of the Political Parties ODS and TOP 09: Programe versus Reality" analyses how successful were the mentioned political parties in the implementation of their election programmes in actual fact. The beginning of this thesis deals with the theory of the party systems. The Giovanni Sartori's and Jean Blondel's typologies are applied to the Czech party system. The second section of this part follows up the Klaus von Beyme's theory of the party families, the emphasis is put on the conservative and liberal thinking, which the political parties ODS and TOP 09 recognize as their own ideologies. By using the election programs, comparative method will find out which of the studied party was more successful in the implementation of their promises into the reality. The Comparison analyses the election programs of the both parties for the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in 2010. Evaluation has been done in four sections, which are the economic policy, the struggle against corruption, the social system and the pension reform. It has been found out that both parties were in their actions similarly successful, the most problematic of studied parts was the economic policy. Nevertheless, TOP 09 has implemented slightly more promises into the reality than...
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Causes of the actual ODS crisis
Zunt, Štěpán ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Trávníček, Matěj (referee)
Bachelor thesis Causes of the actual ODS crisis deals with finding the reasons for the current state of the ODS. This party was one of the most important parties in the nineties of the twentieth century and determined the direction of the entire Czech political events. At present the party has only 16 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the situation has not improved much. The first part focuses on the theoretical concept of parties and their definition. With this chapter ODS can be defined as conservative-liberal party. Another part focuses on the history and development of the ODS, there is already outlined what possible reasons could get the side into the current crisis. In the last part is a selection of the most important moments of the party, but also events that are completely unrelated to ODS. It has been selected six key things while three were later proved to be the reasons that led to the current crisis. The first reason is that the party is unable to cope with its program of transformation and could not find another key topic. The departure of its founder Vaclav Klaus had the negative impact on the side. The third reason is the emergence of new parties, due to this fact the party is losing voters.
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Development of Right Wing Political Parties in the Czech Republic in 1996-2006
Hlinovský, Šimon ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Šurda Malcová, Karolína (referee)
My goal in this work is analyzing of developement of czech systemic right wing parties between 1996 and 2006. I will research every czech systemic right wing party, which was in this time in Chamber of Deputies of Parlament of the Czech Republic. While Civic Democratic Party is traditionally one of two most strong czech political parties and Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party was in this time every terms in Chamber of Deputies too, other right-wing parties experienced many changes. After establishing of Miloš Zeman's government, tolered by Civic Democratic Party, smaller right wing parties established Four-coalition. These parties have had differend life story. While Union of freedom and Christian democratic union - Czechoslovak people's party were in Chamber of Deputies, Civic Democratic Alliance didn't také place in parlamentary elections in 1998 and Democratic Union wasn't in Chamber of Deputies. Later, Democratic Union was united with Union od Freedom. Four-coalition couldn't také place in parlamentary elections in 2002, because Civic Democratic Alliance was sacked from this coalition because of financial troubles. Coalition broken down after elections and both parties were members of government with left wing Czech Social Democratic Party.under leadership of Vladimír Špidla. Civic...
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