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Discourse Analysis of Political Attitudes of the Czech President Miloš Zeman and far-right political parties
Vocel, Jan ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Charvát, Jan (referee)
The key research question of my diploma thesis deals with the problem of whether the President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman creates the same discourse as far-right political parties in the Czech Republic. The research concerns the social discourse surrounding the current migration crisis facing Europe. In this connection, there is a discourse analysis of the themes of migration, Islam, terrorism, external and internal actors. This research is conducted on the basis of the theory of binaries from Teun Van Dijk, which can be applied to a populist political style characterized by President Zeman and extreme right-wing political parties, among which are analyzed the Workers' Party of Social Justice, National Democracy, Dawn - the National Coalition, Freedom And Direct Democracy - Tomio Okamura and the Citizens' Rights Party. Research data is collected from President Zeman's official communications channels and political parties, including official websites and social networks. Based on a discourse analysis of their political views, it is possible to compare President Zeman and the extreme right-wing parties to each topic and to conclude whether they speak the same or differently about these themes.
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Far-right parties in the European parliament
Bajtler, Martin ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
This thesis deals with the far-right parties in the European Parliament. Emphasis is placed on the situation after the elections to the European Parliament in 2014 and the post-election negotiations to create a single far-right political groups. The work introduces the theoretical concepts of the far-right, nationalism, anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, populism and euroscepticism. It also deals with the issue of the European Parliament, the formation of political groups and the character of the European elections. Far-right parties in the European Parliament are presented in a separate chapter, which deals with the history of their associating into political groups, the results of the 2014 European elections and negotiations about possible cooperation. Rhetoric and ideology of the far-right is presented on the example of three parties - the National Front, the UK Independence Party and the Golden Dawn.
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Islamophobia and New Populism in Contemporary Western Europe: France and the Netherlands
Kočařová, Martina ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
Islamophobia and New Populism in Contemporary Western Europe: France and the Netherlands Bc. Martina Kočařová The Master thesis Islamophobia and New Populism in Contemporary Western Europe: France and the Netherlands explores current transformations of populism in contemporary Western Europe. The main objectives of the thesis are following: First, to verify a hypothesis implying that islamophobia has become a new feature of the contemporary populism, which has been consequently changing in terms of its content. Thus, it can hardly be classified as another form of the 'far right' politics. In this context, one may observe its shift towards the centre of the political party system. Second, based on the above outlined assumption, we aim to study whether the populist parties can be considered 'populist' in spite of the new features they have recently adopted. The theoretical framework of our research refers to Paul Taggart's conceptualisation of populism applying it on the cases of the French National Front under the lead of Marine Le Pen and the Dutch Party for Freedom and his leader Geert Wilders.
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Far-right parties in the European parliament
Bajtler, Martin ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Černoch, Jakub (referee)
This thesis deals with the far-right parties in the European Parliament. Emphasis is placed on the situation after the elections to the European Parliament in 2014 and the post-election negotiations to create a single far-right political groups. The work introduces the theoretical concepts of the far-right, nationalism, anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, populism and euroscepticism. It also deals with the issue of the European Parliament, the formation of political groups and the character of the European elections. Far-right parties in the European Parliament are presented in a separate chapter, which deals with the history of their associating into political groups, the results of the 2014 European elections and negotiations about possible cooperation. Rhetoric and ideology of the far-right is presented on the example of three parties - the National Front, the UK Independence Party and the Golden Dawn.
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People's Association - Golden Dawn: The Rise of the Greek Far-right in the Time of Crisis
Karasová, Nikola ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Králová, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis is concentrating on the rise of the far-right in Greece during the global financial crisis. Specifically it focuses on the political party named Golden Dawn which is present in the Greek party system since the beginning of the 1980's, yet it did not gain positive electoral results earlier than in 2010. Based on primary and secondary sources, including the materials of the party, this thesis analyzes the ideological foundations and practical politics of Golden Dawn with the aim to classify it, to find the causes of its recent political success and to present it in the context of Greek and European far-right. It answers the question what the position of Golden Dawn is on the Greek political scene or on the international far-right scene, secondly what specifics and characteristic features it has in comparison to other far-right formations in Greece and in Europe.
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English Defence League, a new wave of far-right
Černá, Steffi ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with theoretical frame of new far right side of political spectrum which is represented on base of existing research and subsequently applied on "grassroots" of movement English Defence League. Nowadays, that is the most significant representative of this phenomenon in Great Britain and is characterized by its features which are not typical for far right ideological family for example the strong appeal on protection of human rights and tolerance which is showed primarily in the movement's structure where is a large homosexual or Jewish division. English Defence League is also known for its strong Islamophobia and cultural racism which manifests on their march and in the behaviour of their followers. English Defence League is also free member base which is organised thanks to new media, mainly social networks. The target of the bachelor thesis is, thanks to the demarcation of new far right definition, to determine ideological status of English Defence League.
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Youth Organizations of the Worker's party of Social Justice and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
Dytrych, Martin ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
The Diploma thesis focuses on youth structures that profess to the largest far-right and far-left parties representatives in the Czech Republic. In the far-right milieu it is the Worker's Party Youth, who are closely associated with the Worker's party of Social Justice. On the far-left side of the spektrum, there are formally two entities, that profess to the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: the Communist Youth Union and the Union of Young Communists of Czechoslovakia. The aim of this thesis is to clarify the extent of real interdependence of these civic associations with a political party, and on the other side, to examine their political extremism level, both in theory and also in the terms of security forces. The thesis further explores to what extent, therefore, these entities are a real threat to the existing democratic system in the Czech Republic.
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Die Jungen Nationaldemokraten and Dělnická mládež: influences and inspiration of extreme right youth organizations
Dytrych, Martin ; Slačálek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Polášek, Martin (referee)
This bachelor's degree work focuses on examination of the civic association Workers' Party Youth (Dělnická mládež), the only youth association affiliated with an far-right party in the Czech Republic. An analysis has been performed of its creation, its development, its local organizations and the composition of its membership base. Although Workers' Party Youth is legally a completely independent entity, it actually works in cooperation with the Workers' Party of Social Justice, which it supports. The extent of interconnection between these two entities is the main focus of the research on a domestic level. In relation to cooperation with groups abroad, the extent of inspiration from and real affiliation with the youth organization NPD Die Jungen Nationaldemokraten, which the Workers' Party Youth itself identifies as its model, is examined.
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Media Discourse Analysis of rigt-wing weblog Altermedia.info
Bártová, Kateřina ; Jirků, Jan (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
The thesis called Qualitative Analysis of Media Discourse of the Far-right Blog cz.altermedia.info deals with the discourse analysis of the Czech version of an international project Altermedia.info. Discourse analysis aims at differences between the discourse of the founding editor and the current one and analyses the neo-fascist nature of the blog. The theoretical framework of the analysis is based on the postmarxist theory of discourse introduced by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. The theoretical part of the thesis summarizes the findings of researchers who are engaged in discourse analysis (structuralism, poststructuralism, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Norman Fairclough, Teun van Dijk). The thesis also examines how specific meaning is constructed within the nationalist discourse of Altermedia and to what extent a new team of authors contributed to the change of discourse. The analysis identifies the main nodal points, which are involved in the construction of discourse, and examines the antagonistic processes within the two different editors. Discursive analysis reveals particular inclination of the current discourse of Altermedia for the neo-Nazi ideology, and thus indicates the fundamental antagonism between the founding editors and current one.
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Role of the Far Right in Political System of the Czech Republic
ZOFALL, Karel
The bachelor thesis deals with issue of Extrem-right politics and Far-right politics. It analyzes role of those parties in political system in the Czech Republic. The bachelor thesis focuses on Workers' Party and its successsor Workers' Party of Social Justice. The first part of bachelor thesis describes a comprehensive characteristic of extremism and radicalism. The characteristic is distributed according to various social disciplines followed with explaining of terms Far-right politics, Far-left politics and with analysis of Workers' Partys predecessors. The main part will be the analysis of Workers' Party and Workers' Party of Social Justice Party, their programs, political events, electoral successes etc.. In the work, there will be introduce a militant democracy draft and primarily militant democracy instruments, which will be applied to Workers' Party or to Workers' Party of Social Justice Party.
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