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Analysis of czechoslovak social democracy in years 1916-1921
Henzl, Lukáš ; Novák, Miroslav (advisor) ; Gelnarová, Jitka (referee)
This work offers an analysis of social democracy in the Czech lands in 1916 - 1921. The aim is to describe the process and the causes of the collapse of the ČSDSD. This gave rise to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The study seeks to answer the question of why the Communist coup in ČSDSD failed. The introductory part deals with the historical development of the party against the background of national and world events. The main accent is set on the analysis of the two wings within the party: the left (revolutionary) and the right (reform). These wings are examined from the perspective of Giovanni Sartori and the sociologists of policy of the time, Johh Mertl and Robert Michels. This is complemented by the inclusion of the party into cleavages by Stein Rokkan and Seymour M. Lipset. The study also contains information about developments in the number of party members between 1913 and 1924, reflecting the decline in the war years and especially after the collapse of the party. The following chapter is dedicated to the strength of social democracy in the legislatures in comparison with the other Czech, respectively Czechoslovak parties. It shows the position of social democracy within the party system and its real influence on the direction the Czech and, later, Czechoslovak nation took. The text is...
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František Soukup and his share in the creation of Czechoslovakia
Havlíčková, Lidmila ; Velek, Luboš (advisor) ; Galandauer, Jan (referee)
ANOTATION Bachelor's work focused on František Soukup and his share in the creation of Czechoslovakia mainly during First World War and in first government of Karel Kramář. Shortly it is introduced a history of Czech social democracy, because František Soukup was member of this party (since 1896) and this party influenced his opinion for a long time. The main part of the bachelor's work presents Soukup in Maffie and mainly in button scandal in autumn 1915. Bachelor's work gives a detailed description of Soukup's activity in National Committee and Socialist Committee. Then work focused on Soukup's share of National Committee's declaration in the first half of 1918. Work gives an essential description of 28th October 1918 and first government of Karel Kramář, because František Soukup was Minister of Justice. KEY WORDS František Soukup, Social Demokracy, Maffie, Button scandal, National Committee, Socialist Committee, 28th October 1918, Czechoslovakia 1918, First World War
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Party SMER-SD and its Position in the Slovak Party System
Beneš, Michal ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to place Slovak political party SMER in the political and party system of the Slovak Republic and attempt to analyse ideological and programmatic development of this party. The author devotes attention to development of SMER from the emergence in 1999 until last general elections in 2012. First chapter seeks to describe evolution of socialism and following ideologies including the concept of the Third way which was reflected by some Western European social democratic parties. The second chapter is dedicated to left-wing political parties in Czechoslovakia and lately in Slovak Republic. This chapter is divided into two sections. The first section is about parties existing before 1989 and the second one devotes attention to parties after Velvet Revolution in 1989. Next part of this work is focused on the SMER itself. Author describes three phases of development of this party including emergence in 1999, opposition activities between 2002 and 2006 and phase of hegemony following after 2006. The purpose of the last part of the thesis is to analyse ideological and programmatic development of SMER and highlight some problematic features of proclaimed social democratic orientation.
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German social demokratic architecture in municipal housing in Ústí nad Labem, 1918-1938
Prouza, Pavel ; Švácha, Rostislav (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Tomáš (referee) ; Biegel, Richard (referee)
5 German social democratic architecture in municipal housing in Ústí nad Labem, 1918-1938 Ing. arch. Pavel Prouza Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Rostislav Švácha, CSc. Abstract The dissertation addresses the issue of architecture in municipal housing built between the two wars in the town of Ústí nad Labem. From mid-nineteenth century the North Bohemian industrial agglomeration, populated mostly by Germans, experienced unprecedented urban and demographic growth. Thus, between 1919 and 1938, the municipality developed a comprehensive project of approximately one hundred buildings. The thesis identifies relations and balanced proportions between a formal analysis of the individual stages of development and a study of their broader historical context. The method of art-historical analysis is applied, whereby the projects are chronologically classified and their urban, typological and chronological aspects are assayed and assessed. The thesis also focuses on the identity of the author, the architect of German origin Franz J. Arnold. The architecture of the Ústí municipal housing complex was designed as a concretization of the social democratic political programme and of the state housing policy, it carries therefore a contents of political significance. The analysis was performed based on archival studies and field...
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Division in the social-democratic movement in Austria-Hungary in the 80s in the 19th century
Jůza, Robert ; Doubek, Vratislav (advisor) ; Polášek, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the division in the social-democratic movement in Austria- Hungary in the '80s of the 19th century. The programmatic documents of the party are analyzed from the point of view of controversial points of the division. The workers movement was split into groups of moderates and radicals. These groups polemized about tactics, which would lead to the achievement of goals of proletariat. The goals were the same for both groups, change to classless society and collectivization of production. There are programmatic documents putting an end to the division examined as well. First of they are all looked into from the points of view, whether they are closer connected with perspectives of moderates or radicals.
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Marketing Strategy of the CSSD Party in the Campaign for the Preterm Parliamentary Elections in Year 2009
Michal, Petr ; Dolanský, Pavel (advisor) ; Hejlová, Denisa (referee)
Diploma thesis "Marketing strategy of the ČSSD party in the campaign for the preterm parliamentary elections in year 2009" tries to analyze the campaign of the Czech Socail Democratic Party for the preterm parliamentary elections in year 2009. The thesis begins with a brief introduction into the theory of political communication and political marketing and continues with appointing of the various roles a party can play in the pre-election campaign. The main body of the thesis is dedicated to the description of the electorate and the analysis of the Social Democratic campaign using the description over time method. The thesis ends with a concise analysis of the results of the campaign.
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Social demokratic publicists in the post-February exile (1948-1953)
Horák, Pavel ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Sekera, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis (Journalism of Social Democratic Exile after February 1948 /1948- 1953/) studies the history of social democratic party in exile between the years 1948 and 1953 with special focus on journalism, news service and propaganda. The thesis describes formation of party fractions and deals with how they defined themselves, communicated and presented themselves in the media. The thesis then goes on to analyse the newspaper format, production and financing thereof as well as the number of copies. It looks into broadcasting activities of social democrats and their plans related to the setup of illegal radio. Based on the cases of party secretary Vilím Blažej and Bohumil Laušman, the last party chairman prior to February 1948, the thesis analyses the question whether single groups within the party in the given time period tried by its journalistic activities to primarily influence events in Czechoslovakia or whether these efforts slowly faded due to rivalry between fractions and frustration over hopeless political situation and lack of audience in such an extent that media outputs were later on confined only to discussions within the party and to barely expressing political views.
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The phenomenon of the strong position of labour parties in Norway, Sweden and Denmark
Hluchá, Tereza ; Braun, Mats Rickard (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
Summary: My thesis deals with the unique phenomenon of the strong position of the labour parties in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. These parties have held a position of a dominant party in the Scandinavian party systems for several decades from the late 1930s till the 1970s which is a remarkable achievement among the Western European political parties. The phenomenon of the strong position of labour parties in Norway, Sweden and Denmark The key to the phenomenal success of the Norwegian Labor Party, the Swedish Social Democrats and the Danish Social Democrats have been particularly high party identification of voters. The success of the welfare state also lies in the widespread feeling that everyone benefits from this state policy not only the poor. These party systems had been due to its stable and unchanging character described as "frozen party systems". The frozen part of the party systems in that period represented an average of about 85% of the votes in Norway and Denmark. In the case of Sweden the figure was even higher - about 94% of all votes. In the case of Norway and Sweden, the Social Democrats as predominant party held even up to 30% more seats than the second strongest political party. In such an environment it is almost impossible for a newly established political group to enter the party system....
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Performance of the mandate of a Social Democratic Party Member of the European Parliament
Gubáš, Robert ; Reschová, Jana (advisor) ; Bič, Josef (referee)
The Social Democratic MEP mandate performance has certain specific features which distinguish it from mandates of members of other EP fractions. The theoretical part of this thesis focuses on the historical context of European Social Democracy and challenges which it must currently face (euroscepticism, consequences of economic crisis etc.). Furthermore, it considers the role of the Party of European Socialists the whole process. The practical part of this thesis consists of guided interviews with EP Members for ČSSD and SMER - sociálna democracia. The aim of this thesis is to assess the degree of European Social Democracy's Europeanization and differences in national and European aspects of the character of Social Democratic MEP mandate.
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