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Does the Parliament Respect the Constitutional Court?
Staněk, Michal ; Syllová, Jindřiška (referee)
The key concern of the thesis is whether the Parliament has been respecting the Constitutional court. In order to answer this question, the theoretical part resolves the very existence of the Parliament's obligation to follow the Court and its decisions. The empirical part provides two points of view on the subject. First, the role of the Court and its decisions in parliamentary debates is being discussed. Second point analyses the reactions of the parliamentaries in response to Court's findings abolishing a law or its part during the VII. election period of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Methods of recounting votes to seats and their influence on the composition of parliament. The case study of the czech parliamentary election 2017
Drašar, Michael ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Hájek, Lukáš (referee)
Bachelor thesis focuses on the application of electoral formulas used in proportional electoral system in the case of the czech parliamentary election 2017. The goal of thesis is to find how the change of mathematical method of recounting votes to seats would change the composition of parliament the Chamber of Deputies and would allows the creation of stable cabinet. In bachelor thesis are also modeled results of election according to the intended electoral reforms, concrete the Opposition Threaty's reform and the Second Topolánek cabinet's reform. In introduction is introduced the topic of thesis shortly and formulated the reserach questions. Theoretical part performs electoral formulas and their effects, basic principles of the electoral act in the Czech republic and explanation of electoral reform's principles and also conditions, results and consequences od the czech parliamentary elections 2017. In analytical part is introduced methodology shortly, in this case it is the case study and then the quotas and methods are applicated to the real ballot's results. These models helps to answer the research questions which are focused in the conclusion of these bachelor thesis.
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Political Party ANO before parliamentary elections 2017
Měska, Ondřej ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Charvát, Jan (referee)
The main objective of my diploma thesis is to analyze and evaluate the Political Movement ANO positioning within the political parties system of the Czech Republic by using a methodological framework approach. The thesis provides an analysis of electorate shifting and selected political parties manifestos as well as their comparison with the Political Movement ANO. Timewise, my focus is on the period prior to the election to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2017. As for analytical purposes, the Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling has been used. This statistical model helps to get the respective values and to show the electoral vote changes between the last two parliament elections (to Chamber of Deputies). The author uses quantitative and qualitative research for comparison and analysis of programmatical convergency as defined in the election manifestos of various political parties. For manifestos quantification a coding scheme by a Comparative manifesto project group has been applied. The reason for using the above mentioned scheme is that it provides a structured methodology to quantify the domains that the political parties do focus the most in their manifestos. The aim of the analytical part of the thesis is to define how and especially from where the Movement ANO...
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Analysis of the electoral campaign in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in 2017: a case study of the Pirates'party
Šigut, David ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Charvát, Jan (referee)
The main goal of this master thesis is to analyse the election campaign of the Czech Pirate Party in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2017. Even though the Pirate Party have participated in several elections since 2009, the election in 2017 brought the greatest electoral success. Nowadays, the external experts from various fields participate in the pre-election campaigns of the parties. Such cooperation usually lasts only during the pre-election campaign and it ends after the elections. These experts create campaign strategies and plans, train party leaders in communication, provide brand analyses, etc. The primary objective of this thesis is to analyse how the campaign of the Czech Pirate Party was conducted in 2017, whether they collaborated with external experts and what elements they had in their campaign.
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What Senate? Position of Senate in the Constitutional System of the Czech Republic
Holásek, Jan ; Hřebejk, Jiří (advisor) ; Kudrna, Jan (referee)
Author: Jan Holásek Summary/Abstract Title of the Thesis: What Senate? - Position of Senate in the Constitutional System of the Czech Republic The thesis "What Senate? - Position of Senate in the Constitutional System of the Czech Republic" (hereinafter also the "Thesis") discusses the legal position and functioning of the Senate of the Czech Republic. The objective of the Thesis is to highlight the basic principles of the concept of bicameral legislative bodies; mention the history of bicameral structures in the modern history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic; describe the main principles of functioning of the second/high chambers in constitutional systems which could be inspirative for the Czech Senate; describe the principles of establishment, functioning and competencies of the current Senate of the Czech Republic, including the proposals for amendments of the Senate constitutional position made in the past. Furthermore, to consider the ways in which it would be possible to strengthen the position of the Senate in constitutional and political systems of the Czech Republic; suggest specific amendments to the Senate competencies aiming to ensure its position in order for the Senate to be repsected not only by the political representatives, but also professional representatives as well as the...
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The role of obstructions in the Czech legislative system
Sedláček, Martin ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to describe the use of obstruction mechanisms in the Czech legislative system, where in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, as key legislative institutions of the parliamentary system, has been making massive damages in the form of blocking the negotiation of draft laws for many years. The reasons that led to the Rules of Procedure of the Chamber of Deputies permitting the existence of this phenomenon are not quite obvious, but they are an integral part of the parliamentary culture of our country, which existence is mainly used by the legislative minority. Even though the Rules of Procedure have a clear wording, which allow the existence of obstructions, their use is often considered as unconstitutional, as their use often exceeds the affordable limit. The main objective of this theses is to introduce to the reader all the instruments that help to obstructions and subsequently to show their use in practice during the meetings of the Chamber of Deputies within the last three parliamentary term, including the period in progress.
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Decision-making on Czech participation in the military missions and operations of the European Union
Vondřich, Marek ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
This Master thesis examines reasons of Czech politicians to decide on sending armed forces of the Czech Republic into military missions and operations of the European Union. The Czech Republic in researched years 2003-2016 took part in six out of twelve EU's military missions and operations. During these years, the support at the Czech political scene towards said missions and operations changed many times, depending on the position of certain party in the government or in the opposition. Thesis uses content analysis of discussions for its research. These discussions took place in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic between years 2003 and 2016 and were associated with government's proposals on the deployment of the Czech armed forces abroad. Each Member of the Chamber of Deputies' contribution is assigned into one of defined categories: Security, Profitability and Appropriateness. The main hypothesis is that the majority of contributions in the researched debates belongs into Appropriateness category, largely due to importance of commitments towards allies in the EU. The second hypothesis is that the amount of arguments belonging into Security category will rise in the last couple of years, mainly because of the worsening security situation in the European Union and the...
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An Attempt to Reform the Electoral System to the Chamber of Deputies Parliament of the Czech Republic after Election in 2006
Bahenský, Martin ; Koubek, Jiří (advisor) ; Polášek, Martin (referee)
This submitted bachelor thesis analyses an attempt to reform the electoral system to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic after the 2006 election. The proposed so-called "Greek variant" of the Topolánek's electoral reform established a bonus for the winner of the electoral competition within the proportional representation stipulated in the Czech constitution. The theoretical framework is based on the theory of mixed electoral systems by Canadian political scientists Louis Massicotte and André Blais. The aim of author of this work is hypothetical application of this failed electoral reform to the parliamentary election in 2013, its classification according to Massicotte and Blais and last but not least, a criticism of this attempted electoral promoted particularly by Civic Democratic Party. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Patterns of the electoral behavior of voters in the Usti Region
Měska, Ondřej ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Švec, Radek (referee)
The main goal of this bachelor thesis is to try to find out a formula of electoral behavior of voters in region Ústí nad Labem using a correlation analysis. In the first part of the thesis its author introduces regional differences related to specific variables or election results. In the second part a large dataset is made on a municipality level and applied to a disctricts' level subsequently. A goal of the thesis is to find out a correlation between election results of four chosen political parties (ČSSD, ODS, KSČM, DSSS) in elections to Parliament of the Czech Republic in years 2010 and 2013, and a voters' socioeconomic status using the obtained dataset. The conclusion of the thesis reveals whether we could expect any specific election results of selected political parties based on voters'socioeconomic status and also to find out a formula for voters' behavior.
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Migration and its social construction in approaches of political parties in the Chamber of Deputies in the Czech Republic
Burešová, Zdeňka ; Novotný, Vilém (advisor) ; Jelínková, Marie (referee)
Migration is a phenomenon which has strong impact on the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic is currently under transformation from transit country to immigration country. At the present time the situation is even more complicated because of the migrant crises which impact all of us. I suppose that the Members of Parliament will create social constructions or narratives about migrants during the sitting of parliament. I aim to identify social constructions of migrants that are created by the Czech political parties represented in the Chamber of Deputies since the 2013 election. I will divide social construction into two main groups. Ones belong to migrants and the other ones to refugees. I would like to find out if there are more positive or negative social constructions and how are benefits and punishments distributed to these groups. I would like to discover key narratives of particular political negotiation as well. Theoretical background of this thesis is the social construction of target population theory of Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram. In the manner of Lina Newton's article "It is not a question of being anti-immigrant: Categories of deservedness in immigration policy making", I will use a combination of discursive and narrative analysis as the main method. I will analyse statements and...
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