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Slovak pension reform
Lukačovský, Tomáš ; Vostrovská, Zdenka (advisor) ; Nohál, Martin (referee)
This essay inquires of retirement system in Slovakia. In the first theoretical part author brings the retirement system in, its evolution and character. Also inform about genesis of reform and introduce its legislative basic. In the second part of essay author analyses period of time when the government was changed twice. Every government set up the pension system according to its ideas. The main target of this essay is to recalculate that changes and point at real impact in form of deficit, public debt or in form of saver.
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Potential of rural tourism as a development factor for Berounsko and Křivoklátsko
BROŽENSKÁ, Lucie
This diploma thesis evaluate tourism in Karlštejnsko and Křivoklátsko regions. These questions were firstly evaluated from sight of quantity which shown offer range of touristic activities and activities in selected regions. The points of the next research are estimations of government, promoter subjects and information centres in question of importance of case country-side tourist traffic and level of its support from public domain.
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Who are environmental journalists?
Doležalová, Petra ; Novák, Arnošt (advisor) ; Hladík, Radim (referee)
(english) The thesis deals with the environmental journalist, I use gatekeeper concept. The aim is to identify working routines and relationship with environmental and nature. In the first part, I complicate the theoretical basis. I first concerned with social constructionism of issue, media communication and key terms in media and environment. In empirical part is used the qualitative research strategy - an analysis of interviews with environmental journalists from news journals, weekly magazines and websites and analysis of information sources. I described relationship, opinions and values of environmental journalists to environment and nature. I identified the working routines and I completed it by the analysis of information sources. Important information sources are expert, non governance organization, states institutions in the environmental area. Experts and states institutions are primary defining. This research confirmed authority orientation of news. Journalists feel the autonomy in selection of topic, but I recorded pressures and controls from the media organizations. Journalists have a close relationship to nature and the environment, its protection is seen as important. Conservation lies in the modesty and sustainability.
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Possible stabilization effects of returnable incomes in municipal development on the example of municipalities of various sizes
Šimánek, Zbyněk ; Peková, Jitka (advisor) ; Měrtlová, Libuše (referee)
This thesis focuses on specific forms of long term development stabilization by using returnable incomes in Czech municipalities of various sizes. Stabilization is appropriate when unexpected (negative) events may occur, when assuring continuity of investment activities, or financing extensive development projects. Traditional form of Keynesian countercyclical stabilization has not been confirmed on analyzed municipalities. Conversely, fiscal and budgetary behavior of the municipalities has been procyclical. The author points out the necessity of stabilization on the municipal level due to a long term non-conceptual fiscal policy of the Czech government.
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Design and Politics in CR
Boušková, Monika ; Havlásek Tatarová, Lucie (advisor) ; Raudenský, Martin (referee)
Title: Design and Politics in Czech Summary: Design and Politics in the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia) The first official organization for design was established by the Czechoslovakian government in 1964. Since it was prohibited to use a word "design" in the name of the newly established organization, because it promoted the "forbidden style" of Western Europe, the organization was called The Council for Creative Culture of the Production. The Council was composed of ministries' representatives and the secretariat, which focused on design exhibitions and their evaluation. The Council also began to cooperate on the international level. In 1967, the Czechoslovakian Council was accepted into the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID). After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, the Council for Creative Culture of the Production was renamed according to soviet standard to the Institute of Technological Aesthetics. The Institute continued in its work, focusing mainly on exhibitions and project exchanges solely with other socialist countries. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Czechoslovakia was in 1993 divided into two separate states - the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. And so was the Institute, which was replaced by two new distinct design organizations. The...
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The Czechoslovak state school in Great Britain (1940-1945)
Damová, Zora ; Šouša, Jiří (advisor) ; Dobeš, Jan (referee)
My work deals with the Czechoslovak State Secondary School in Great Britain which was operated by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile from 1940 to 1945 as a part of the Czechoslovak school system. Information on origin and organization of this school and also information on its cultural and promotional activities are specified here. A part of this work is dedicated to professors and students of this school. The students had their own organization called "Club of Czechoslovak High School Students" which organized cultural and sport activities of the school as well as edited a school magazine and took part at students management of the school. Some memories of former students themselves are added to demonstrate a global atmosphere of the school and to show student's perspective on classwork and school organization.
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Reform of the House of Lords under the New Labour government 1997- 2010
Winterová, Kristýna ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Rovná, Lenka (referee)
The House of Lords today is with its ongoing presence of hereditary peers largely seen as undemocratic and illegitimate. In 1997 the New Labour government introduced a manifesto plan to end the hereditary principle and to carry out a democratic reform of the House. This paper seeks to examine the changes to the second chamber under the New Labour government between 1997 and 2010. It is particularly interested in the more substantial changes to the formal institutional structure, such as composition, membership and the powers of the House. It seeks to provide a contextualised understanding of the nature of the House of Lords and the recent changes to it. Through an analysis of official documents and adopted measures between 1997 and 2010, this paper examines whether the real developments of the second chamber met the official plans of New Labour as stated in their manifestos (1997, 2001, 2005). It then examines the reforms and their institutional impacts more in detail. The paper concludes that the government failed to introduce the majority of its commitments. However, it is argued that there were other significant developments that increased the influence of the second chamber on the political process and brought it closer to the standards of modern democratic second chambers.
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Britain at Bay: The British Defence Policy between the World Wars
Svoboda, Ondřej ; Smetana, Vít (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The purpose of the thesis "Britain at Bay: British Defence Policy between the World Wars" is to analyse the creation and application of defence policy of Great Britain and its Empire in the interwar period. The author tries to assess and interpret actions of individual government actors as well as actors outside the government. He argues that defence policy promoted by politicians, soldiers, and bureaucrats, was not always a mere result of rational reasoning. There were often cases of defending particular interests, decision-making influenced by emotions and misleading perception of the external world. One of the strongest limitations was Britain's economic frailty which influenced the British grand strategy in eminent and key way during the examined period. It is well demonstrated on the shift from almost unilateral disarmament after the First World War to the immense armament just a few months before the Second World War. Great emphasis is also put on individual armed branches which bore the main burden of Britain's and Imperial security. Therefore, it was important to pursue the internal development of the Army, Air Force and the Navy and their operational plans in which they had to deal with gradual emergence of three enemy powers at three different parts of the world. With regard to the...
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Theory of Decision Making in Public Law and Private Law Corporations
Broulík, Jan ; Kühn, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Tryzna, Jan (referee)
2 Jan Broulík - Theory of Decision Making in Public Law and Private Law Corporations Abstract The thesis analyses Czech legal regulations concerning decision making in bodies of corporations. For the purposes of this analysis it employs mainly the apparatus of the economic analysis of law. Its basic concepts are also outlined. The author focuses on two kinds of legal entities which are public universities and joint stock companies. The ethical-legal connections and the significance of corporate governance in the decision making domain are presented. The analysis of the legal norms shows how reasons of the economic analysis of law correspond with provisions regulating body elections, body competence allocation and the body decision making procedure. The criterion for evaluating the quality of legal norms is effectiveness, meaning an increase of social wealth. The main detected imperfections are a missing provision allowing a long distance voting for joint stock companies' general meetings, a missing tool for the cases where a shareholder breaches his loyalty duty which leads to not passing of a general meeting decision and the mandatory nature of the duty of care. Judicial decisions important for joint stock companies' decision making are presented. These decisions concern with the decision making of a sole...
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Parameters of Mandatory Pension Systems
Mikolášik, Marcel ; Prof. Ing. Petr Musílek, Ph.D. (advisor)
The thesis examines various parameters of pre-funded pension systems with individual accounts that are in some aspects mandatory. Instead of describing such systems comparatively in detail, rationale of some of the system design choices is discussed. Main focus is on institutional design, cost containment and investment regulation. It is argued that given the mandatory nature of such systems, governments should seek to regulate them in ways that promote cost-effectiveness, while allowing for meaningful investment return on system assets. Also, where sound, adequate use should be made of existing industry and regulatory structures as a cost-containment and confidence-building measure.
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