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Contemporary populism in Europe
Senft, Matěj ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Agha, Petr (referee)
Thesis title: Contemporary populism in Europe This thesis maps the development of populism across Europe and investigates its manifestations and core elements in its complexity, which is the groundwork for analysis of populist party, movement or individual. Populism is not considered solely as the relieving strategy meant to maximize the voter's votes by comprehensible, straightforward and hardly feasible promises. Without this attitude in mind, we would hardly be able to put some reason behind the populist boom, which we had chance to witness during the last decade. Therefore this thesis considers populism as the ideological construct, the way politicians present themselves, the rhetorics, the mastered political style or the structure, which provides the foundations of programme documents of political movements and parties. It would be a mistake to a priori consider it as some kind of purely negative phenomenon, but more of as the reflection of various and continuously changing demands of European electorates. Desperation, which mainstream parties evoke in their voters, is toxic and continues to spread across all society classes. This creates a space for various populists to dominate. Thus while tracking their activities, specific kind of critical thinking is necessary, because populists...
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Eurosceptic Political Parties Faction in the European Parliament: constitution, form, political activity and changes in the context of the European Parliament elections 2019
Doležal, Tomáš ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
The thesis deals in the theoretical part with a presentation and comparison of views of political science on party-political euroscepticism, including a description of the development of the form of eurosceptic factions in the European Parliament after 2014 and political subjects associated in them. Practical part presents, analyzes and interprets the voting of these political entities in the election periods 2014-2019 and 2019-2024, especially in terms of their coherence within individual factions. Both in general (overall average coherence) and by individual thematic agendas. In its outputs, the work tries, based on the obtained data, to answer the question, what are the dominant common ideological characteristics of the eurosceptic political parties represented in the European Parliament and whether they form, or can form, a separate so-called party-political family. Keywords: Euroscepticism, European Union, European Parliament, factions, political parties, populism, elections Title: Eurosceptic Political Parties Factions in the European Parliament: constitution, form, political activity and changes in the context of the European Parliament elections 2019
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Social Networks as a communication channel of selected political parties before elections to the European Parliament in 2019
Beránková, Sára ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Macková, Veronika (referee)
The diploma thesis "Social networks as a communication channel of selected political parties before the elections to the European Parliament in 2019" deals with political communication on the social network Facebook and Twitter. The aim of this thesis is to find out how selected political parties communicate on social networks in the election campaign, what type of form and content they used the most. The work also focuses on differences between communication on both networks. The theoretical part focuses on explaining the concept of political communication and political marketing, defines social networks and their types. The next sections are devoted to a brief description of selected networks and political subjects and describe the connection between the political space and the tools of social networks. The analytical part is based on a quantitative and qualitative content analysis in four weeks before the elections to the European Parliament in 2019. The gained data are supplemented by information from semi-structured interviews. The thesis evaluates the strategy of using social networks with the aid of established research questions and hypotheses.
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Social networks as a platform for political debate
Juna, Petr ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
Social networks have very quickly become a popular channel for politicians to communicate information to their constituents. The thesis deals with the question, if the social network communication affects the election results. It also monitors the activity of selected candidates for the post of MEP before the elections in 2019. Their posts on Facebook and Twitter are then analyzed to find a possible relationship between the activity of candidates on social networks in the period from April 23rd to May 23rd, 2019 and the outcome of the European elections. At the same time, it also fact-checks the candidates' practical statements.
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Communication Strategies of the European Parliament in Brussels on the Example of the Role-play Game in Parlamentarium
Vlčková, Jana ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
Communication of the European Parliament with the public takes place within various means and on different levels. This thesis offers an analysis of the European Parliament's communication strategy through the role-play game in the Brussels Parlamentarium. A role- play game simulating the legislative procedure of the European Union is available in all the EU official languages and it is targeted primarily at the youth between 15 and 18 years. The analysis is based on the political communication and political marketing theory, as well as on the concept of the role-play game as an educational tool. The methodological background of the analysis is embedded in the ethnographic research and its constituent methods, especially a participant observation and questionnaires survey, further completed by qualitative analysis of the visual and textual materials of the game. First, the advertising tools of the RPG are presented. Second, the course of the game is described and its transcript analysed. Third, the ways of reception of the activity by the participants are illustrated. The goal of the thesis is to show whether the role- play game is a successful communication tool of the European Parliament with the youth.
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The European Parliament 2019 Elections Online Campaign of Czech Political Actors
Chejn, Tomáš ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Vochocová, Lenka (referee)
In the thesis we are going to focus on the topic of on-line political communication of 8 czech ballot leaders on the social network service Facebook during the 2019 European Parliament election campaign. On-line campaign is essential tool to gain the favor of the electorate in the 4th age of political communication. In long term perspective the European Parliament elections are suffering from the low interest of the electorate and from the trend of decreasing tournout in both pan-European and Czech political arenas. Our research is based on the theoretical concepts about main functions of on-line campaign in the 4th age of political communication. The mobilization of the electorate towards political participation is one of those functions. Next we base our research on the second order elections theory of Karlheinz Reif and Hermann Schmitt. The European Parliament elections are characterised by predominance of topics important to the local political system and by substituting as a referendum about the government of a member country. Last but not least, we base our research on the theory of Paul Taggart and Alexander Szczerbiak, who say that today, euroscepticism is an attractive mainstream topic, which can be found throughout the whole political spectrum. The goal of our research is to prove and...
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Use of Facebook for European Union communication: The Czech MEPs Example
Tranová, Khanh Ly ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Klimeš, David (referee)
Bc. Khanh Ly Tranová Abstract The bachelor thesis The use of Facebook to promote the EU on the example of Czech Members of European Parliament deals with analysis of Facebook public profiles of selected Czech politicians who represent Czech interests in the European Parliament. Given the greater role of social networks in general and the important role of Facebook in political communication, this work focuses on understanding how Czech members of European Parliament use new media to explaine the role of the European Union. This research is focused on the time period during the Czech Parliamentary Elections in 2017. During the political campaigns more attention is paid to some political themes, including issues of the functioning of the European Union and the importance of membership in these structures. This present paper argues that the Czech members of European Parliamen can use the increased attention in order to present the European Union and to raise awareness on this issue. From the position of experts on questions about the European Union, they can also take advantage for self-presentation during political campaigns. The theoretical part deals with the definition of political marketing and the use of social networks for political marketing and outlines the current state of presentation of EU topics...
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Online Communication of European Parliament and European Commision in 2014-2017
Tomaníček, Michal ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Hejlová, Denisa (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on online communication of the European Parliament and the European Commission in 2014-2017. To provide essential information about this topic, there is a description of these two Europeans institutions and their approach to communication, possibilities of online communication and definition of generations of Millennials and Generation Z. Descriptive part of this bachelor thesis is explaining the European Union institutions, their inner structure and strategic approach towards field of communication. Further in this chapter, there is a description of online platforms for communication used by the European Parliament and the European Commission. Namely: their official webpages, Facebook pages and profiles on Instagram and Twitter. In this part description and specifics of target audience - Millennial generation and Generation Z. Practical part of this bachelor thesis is about quantitative research which is done by questionnaire online survey among members of target audience. This research aims to explore the awareness of online communication of the European Parliament and the European Commission and its effectivity. Survey was mainly focused on online behaviour of Millennials and Generation Z with a stress on their knowledge about online communication of those EU institutions.
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The transfer of conative function in simultaneous interpreting using the example of Czech and English speeches at the European Parliament
Chmelařová, Jitka ; Mraček, David (advisor) ; Jettmarová, Zuzana (referee)
The present theoretical-empirical diploma thesis in the field of interpreting studies analyses the transfer of conative function in bidirectional simultaneous interpreting between Czech and English. The theoretical part of the thesis presents an overview of the present knowledge in relation to the conative or persuasive function of language and its transfer in interpreting. The methodological framework and initial hypothesis underlying the empirical part of the thesis are then defined. The research material used for the quantitative-qualitative research consists of a corpus of recordings of original and interpreted speeches from the European Parliament. The aim of the present thesis is to explore to what degree the conative function, being the dominant language function in political discourse, is preserved in the interpreted versions of the speeches, on the basis of which debates in this multilingual institution take place. The empirical research follows from a contrastive analysis of the transfer of individual categories of the means of the conative function in simultaneous interpreting for the given language pair. Results of the research are interpreted in terms of the characteristics of the original speech, type of interpreting and directionality.
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Změny Evropského parlamentu po Lisabonské smlouvě
Nesvadbová, Aneta
This thesis presents a comparison of changes that took place after the Treaty of Lisbon in the European Parliament. The first part focuses on the history of the European Parliament and the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. The second part follows the first and compares concrete changes EP after Lisbon Treaty. This part also summarizes the most important changes in the EU after the Lisbon Treaty.
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