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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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Meatpacking plant
Majtán, Marián ; Procházka, Martin (referee) ; Sobotka, Jindřich (advisor)
The diploma thesis is focused on project documentation of Meat packing plant. Along with meat processing the documentation solve question of accomodation for employees. Building consists of two main sections: The processing – it is structured under requierements of meat packing industry. Second one is residential part set in 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor. Main inspiration for design are meat packing plants in Scandinavian countries, where is often need to provide accomodation to employess because of disadvantageous geographic locality. Building is built of Heluz building system, perimeter walls consists of insulation filled blocks. Building is without basement and it is based on footings of plaint. The roof is flat, partially designed as extensive green roof. Isover system is used to thermal insulation. A part of object is also asphalted plain for transport goods to and from the meat packing plant.
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Northern Europe: Economics and Position in the International Market
Štofková, Zuzana ; Abrhám, Josef (advisor) ; Brůžková, Pavla (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with the Northern Europe region, its economical situation and its position in the international tourism market. Thesis is mainly focused on two countries -- Finland and Sweden. The aim is to analyze Finnish and Swedish potential for tourism development and their share in the global tourism market. Beside that it is also focused on the economic situation in both countries. Thesis defines basic terms connected with Northern Europe region in the first chapter. Then there are two chapters with similar structure, one dealing with Finland and the other one dealing with Sweden. In both chapters there is a detailed analysis of the country's economy, study of conditions for tourism development and different forms of tourism, which have been or might be developed regarding these conditions. Both chapters contain the SWOT analysis with a few recommendations for the future progress.
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Transferability of Scandinavian model of welfare state based on macroeconomic analysis
Baštářová, Tereza ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Hnát, Pavel (referee)
This thesis deals with question of Scandinavian social model's transferability on Baltic countries and Iceland. The aim of the thesis is to establish whether and to what extent Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Iceland are ready to adopt the system. Three main methods are used in the thesis, namely: analysis of macroeconomic indicators and competitiveness indices, synthesis using the magic pentagon and comparison via coefficient of variation. The thesis comprises three main parts. The first one deals with theory and methodology. The second part applies information gained from databases of world organisations and follows their development. The last part then compares these figures.
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The Nordic Welfare State Model
Fekete, Mátyás ; Kašpar, Václav (advisor) ; Vošta, Milan (referee)
The Nordic welfare state is usually referred to as the most successful model of its kind; this social system based on the principle of universalism is a common ideal for other European states. The goal of the diploma thesis The Nordic Welfare State Model is to introduce this social model, both from a theoretical and practical point of view. The description of theoretic models as well as the history of European welfare states are vital in order to understand the functioning of social systems; however the main purpose of this paper is to characterize the Nordic welfare state model through the examples of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and to capture the main commonalities and disparities in comparison with the rest of Europe. Based on up-to-date analyses of mainly Scandinavian researchers as well as reports of international organizations this paper offers an extensive analysis of the Nordic Welfare State Model.
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Norway, Sweden - the prospects of development within regional integrations
Šnyrchová, Petra ; Jiránková, Martina (advisor) ; Bartušková, Hana (referee)
The topic of this thesis is the prospects of development of Norway and Sweden within regional integrations. By 'prospects' is meant historical background, current position and an outline of the future development within the integrations. By 'regional integrations' in this work I mean such regional integrations either of which Norway and Sweden are members, or those they intended to join. Those are European Union (or earlier European Communities), European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and closely linked European Economic Area and European monetary union. The thesis aims at illustrating different approaches towards European regional integration on the example of Norway and Sweden, and evaluate prospects of their development. I would also like to assess their position within them. The first chapter gives the basic characteristics of the countries. The second chapter deals with the relations to the regional integrations and the positions within them. The last chapter outlines the future development of the two Scandinavian countries from both the country's and the integration's points of view.
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Maritime transportation services for passengers in Scandinavia
Knopp, Matěj ; Zelený, Lubomír (advisor) ; Dědina, Jan (referee)
Bachelor's thesis provides an overview of current personal maritime transportation possibilities in Scandinavia with a focus on ferries. The main objective is besides summary and evaluation of Ferry lines and companies to find optimal route in the chosen section from Prague to Oslo. It compares individual Ferry links their advantages and disadvantages also with road only option.
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The Competitiveness of the Nordic Countries
Valík, Lukáš ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Machytka, Daniel (referee)
This bachelor thesis is divided into three main parts. The first chapter deals with the theme of the welfare state. It explains the definition of this term, outlines general causes of the rise of this form, characterizes existing models of the social policy with focus on the Nordic type, presents some of the opinions of the critics and also deals with the crisis of this concept. The second part is dedicated to the theme of the competitiveness. It includes some of the applied definitions and gives examples of the institutions, which deal with measuring competitiveness. The second chapter focuses on the methodology used by the World Economic Forum. The third part tries to find a connection between the development of the competitiveness and the reduction of the welfare state in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. The procedure is based on the analysis of the development of the competitiveness of these countries according to the Global Competitiveness Reports and on the analysis of the indicators, which help to estimate the development of the typical attributes of the Nordic model of the welfare state.
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Comparsion of Denmark, Norway and Sweden from the economic and cultural point of view and cooperation with the Czech Republic
Svobodová, Klára ; Zamykalová, Miroslava (advisor) ; Laschoberová, Libuše (referee)
The thesis provides a basic information about the economic, political and cultural situation in Scandinavia. Part of the thesis is the analasis of Denmark, Norway and Sweden including additional investment environment and cooperation with the Czech Republic. A special chapter is devoted to the comparsion of northern countries from the economic and cultural point of view which enables to compare all three countries and to point out both common and different cultural features. The thesis provides an information about specifics on the particular markets and highlights the cultural specialities during the delings in all three countries. Part of the thesis is devoted to a summary of a self-made questionnaire which was answered by Scandinavians.
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The analysis of Norway tourism and it's relationship to the Czech Republic
Kotašková, Pavla ; Valentová, Jana (advisor) ; Dragula, Ladislav (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with an analysis of tourism of Norway and relationship with the Czech Republic. A common charakteristic of destination Norway and it's corporate environment and approximation to marketing of destination as a general concept are part of the diploma thesis. The analysis of incomming and outgoing tourism of Norway, relationship with Czech Republic and promotion of Norway in our country is a practical part of the diploma thesis. The purpose of these thesis is to set apart Norway from statistics, analyses and charakteristics all of the Scandinavien countries and to make an analysis of the situation of Norway tourism with reference to the Czech Republic.
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