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Analysis of the debates of the candidates in the 2nd round of direct presidential election in the Czech Republic in the context of the political campaign
Rozsypal, Michael ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
This diploma thesis analyses the debates of the two candidates who passed to the second round of the Czech direct presidential election in 2013. Primarily focuses on the debates in the public service media - Czech Television and Czech Radio. To put into context the whole campaign will briefly examine the debates on commercial TV stations as well. The thesis applies content analysis as the methodology. It measures how often both candidates (Miloš Zeman and Karel Schwarzenberg) mentioned their officially declared programme theses in a total of six debates on television and radio. The campaign is also presented more broadly in order to put the analysis into a wider context. Only programmes officially designated will be considered for the analysis so as to secure its accuracy. A quantitative analysis of the content will be applied in order to measure the frequency of programme theses in the debates researched. The principal goal of the thesis is to confirm or disconfirm the hypothesis that programme theses do not play such an important role in a political campaign in general, nor in candidate debates. I focus on the aspect of how different debates were and in which type of media presidential candidates presented the higher number of their programme theses.
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Changes in Social Policies in Election Programs of Political Parties since 1993
Čech, Filip ; Hejzlarová, Eva (advisor) ; Novotný, Vilém (referee)
The work "Changes in Social Policies in Election Programs of Political Parties since 1993" focuses on the perception of social policies by entities active on the political stage in the Czech Republic. Social policy represents one of the most interesting and most important policies for common citizens and also voters in the Czech Republic. This field encompasses not only the subject of social topics, but also health, housing and education policies. After gathering all of the available election programs, there is a description of several selected political parties and movements. It is focused on the portion of social policy within the whole program (word count), its placement and basic content divided into four groups: social policy, health policy, education policy, and housing policy. Afterwards, the parties are divided into subgroups and in the next three chapters they are compared with each other. It is a comparison of right-wing, centrist, and left-wing parties, a comparison of parliamentary and non-parliamentary parties, and in the end a comparison of traditional and non- traditional parties. Here, the focus is mainly on the word count and the size of social policy in the context of the whole program. Content definition is difficult and in the analysis it is only touched upon. At the end of...
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Comparison of Political Parties ODS and TOP09: Program versus Reality
Batko, Martin ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Trávníček, Matěj (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Comparison of the Political Parties ODS and TOP 09: Programe versus Reality" analyses how successful were the mentioned political parties in the implementation of their election programmes in actual fact. The beginning of this thesis deals with the theory of the party systems. The Giovanni Sartori's and Jean Blondel's typologies are applied to the Czech party system. The second section of this part follows up the Klaus von Beyme's theory of the party families, the emphasis is put on the conservative and liberal thinking, which the political parties ODS and TOP 09 recognize as their own ideologies. By using the election programs, comparative method will find out which of the studied party was more successful in the implementation of their promises into the reality. The Comparison analyses the election programs of the both parties for the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in 2010. Evaluation has been done in four sections, which are the economic policy, the struggle against corruption, the social system and the pension reform. It has been found out that both parties were in their actions similarly successful, the most problematic of studied parts was the economic policy. Nevertheless, TOP 09 has implemented slightly more promises into the reality than...
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Development of the Czech social democratic party from 1998 to 2006
Horák, Václav ; Stracený, Josef (advisor) ; Kubišová, Zuzana (referee)
The thesis concerned with development of the Social Democrats in years 1998 - 2006. Major portion is attend to elections to the Chamber of Deputies, election programmes and their social policy and democratic legally consistent state. In the next parts I concerned with scandals on political scene, but also with civil initiatives criticizing all political events in the political party and governments of the Social Democrats.
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Tax Changes, Economic and Election Cycle
NOVÁKOVÁ, Lucie
This thesis is focused on the tax changes in the Czech Republic. It examines the taxes' influence during the election period. The thesis starting with Tax Theory and Theory of Public Choice. The general government establishes the taxes; however, there are special-interest groups and bureaucracy, which enforce their interest. The government changes the tax rates to prevent cyclical fluctuations in the economy. The opportunistic theory says that politicians encourage measures that represents the Median Voter in order to be re-elected. The ideological theory says that there is a difference between leftist and rightist parties. These theories are investigated under the conditions of the Czech Republic in 1995 and 2016. The thesis is focused on changes of the revenue side of the state budget. The data are used and are available on the website of the Czech Statistical Office, Finanční správa ČR, AMECO and Revenue Statistics of OECD. To demonstrate of political budget cycle is used the Least Squares Method. The explained variable is tax quota and the revenues of individual taxes. The explanatory variables are: election year, year after election and the reign of the leftist party, which is called Česká sociálně demo-kratická strana (ČSSD). The next explanatory variables are enter of the Czech Republic to European Union and the debt of state budget. The result is to prove the existence of the ideological concept of political-budget cycle in the Czech Republic.
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Electoral campaign of Green party before election in Chamber of Deputies in 2010
Ághová, Karolína ; Dolanský, Pavel (advisor) ; Shavit, Anna (referee)
The thesis Electoral Campaign of the Green Party to the Chamber of Deputies in 2010 deals with the analysis of the electoral campaign of the GP which was taking place from autumn 2009 till May 2010. It describes the historical evolution of the GP and mainly the instruments used and the overall strategy of the electoral campaign. Regarding the political situation and cancelled elections from the autumn 2009, the thesis deals with the whole campaign with its two peaks in October 2009 and May 2010.
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Scottish National Party after 1999
Modlitbová, Jitka ; Říchová, Blanka (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The aim of this paper is to analyse the development of the Scottish National Party and to try to outline its future. The method used in this case study is process tracing. The paper is based particularly on Scottish Parliament election results, on the changes of the leader of the SNP, on the election campaign and manifesto of the SNP and its perception in the Scottish media. The author makes the conclusion that the party leader and the election manifesto are the main causes of the SNP election success.
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Socio-economic aspects in the programs of the parliamentary political parties
Bandasová, Jana ; Izák, Vratislav (advisor) ; Blažek, Petr (referee)
This bachelor work deals with socio-economic aspects of the parliamentary political parties before elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic in June 2010. Based on the analysis of selected socio-economic aspects was carried out the comparison of these aspects, both in the relationship between the parties of the right political spectrum and left political spectrum. In this work were used structural elements of Public Choice Theory, focusing on the median voter. Delimitation of the definition of the median voter results from public choice theory. Through the identification and classification into a specific position in the political spectrum was made an attempt at the practical application of Public Choice Theory. Based on the available data and information this attempt can be considered certain objective findings.
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Political parties' functionning on municipal level: the case study of Milevsko
Stahlová, Michaela ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (referee)
The main goal of the submitted thesis was to analyze seven political parties that were running for the municipal election in Milevsko in 2010. I focused on description of the candidate list structure and electioneering. The thesis also reveals the way of cooperation inside political parties and their representatives as well as parties' campaign funding. The first chapter defines the theory and characterize the municipal elections in general. Second chapter - Milevsko includes the main figures and data about Milevsko and election 2010 result. Third chapter is dedicated to the individual political parties and the last chapter describes the post-election bargaining and coalition forming.
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Analysis of election platforms of the parliamentary political parties in 2010 in the field of direct taxation
Boreš, Martin ; Vančurová, Alena (advisor) ; Finardi, Savina (referee)
In this bachelor thesis "An analysis of election platforms of the parliamentary political parties in 2010 in the field of direct taxation," the reader will learn about individual electoral programs of political parties in terms of direct taxes. The first descriptive part is devoted to the development of tax policy and direct taxes in the Czech Republic. The main goal is the division of political parties according to the compatibility of their election platforms in direct taxes and estimation of impacts of the election results in tax revenues, which builds on previous compatibility analysis. With processing of the information I have concluded that the compatibility of election platforms is the highest both for the right wing parties and for the left wing parties and left wing parties try to heighten tax revenues.
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