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The Political Culture of the Presidential Elections in the Czech Republic
Černá, Vladimíra ; Znoj, Milan (advisor) ; Wintr, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with the political culture of the presidential elections in the Czech Republic. Its main aim is to compare the state of the political culture in 1993 and 2008 in the Czech Republic in connection with the presidential elections. The study employs analytical and comparative methods. The thesis tests the validity of the hypothesis that the civil maturity of the politicians grows with the duration of the democracy.
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The impact of social networks on the involvement of public in politics: a case study of the first direct presidental election in the Czech republic
Kutálková, Adéla ; Hejlová, Denisa (advisor) ; Švelch, Jaroslav (referee)
Nowadays social networks have millions or some even billions of users who spend most of their free time there. Therefore there is no surprise that the potential impact on society becomes part of many experts research. According to some authors, social networks offer an opportunity for political participation especially for those who generally do not participate. Even politicians start to use these networks to mobilize voters. We can observe this new trend in the first direct presidential elections in the Czech Republic 2013, when some of the candidates tried to reach and mobilize voters through social networks. During presidential campaign 2012/2013, users could have participated in various political activities which enabled sharing political views. The aim of this paper is to determine the impact of using social networks during presidential elections, particularly using of Facebook, on interest in politics between users 18- 35 years. The diploma thesis focuses on the impact of Facebook because it is the most popular and used social network in the Czech Republic and also due to the fact that some experts argue that this social network played an important role in the presidential campaign. This paper will be based on quantitative research in form of a questionnaire survey, which was created on the...
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The 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary elections
Laksarová, Veronika ; Kýrová, Lucie (advisor) ; Sehnálková, Jana (referee)
The US presidential election in 2016 is a very important event not only for America itself, but for the whole world as well due to the American influence. This thesis focuses on the process of candidate's nomination for the general election, thus on the primary election of the Democratic Party. The topic of the primary elections is limitedly reflected in the Czech environment not only by specialized literature, but also by the media, mainly due to their time-consumption, complexity and lack of similarity to the Czech system. For these reasons, the whole system of primary elections represents the first part of the thesis. The practical part of the thesis is aiming to analyse political attitudes and programs of selected democratic candidates in 2016 - Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Selected candidates are compared in the three thematic areas that voters considered as the most important according to pre-election surveys in 2016. The areas include the economy and employment, national security and healthcare. The aim of the thesis, besides of the enlightening of the primary election system and the comparison of candidates, is to answer the hypothetical question whether or not Bernie Sanders could have influenced the result of the general election in the case he would have won the primary elections....
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The Power of the Native Vote: Evaluation of the Influence of Native Americans on the Outcome of the 2020 Presidential Elections in the United States - A Case Study of Arizona.
Štroblová, Radka ; Kýrová, Lucie (advisor) ; Pondělíček, Jiří (referee)
More Americans voted in the 2020 elections than in any other in 120 years, and the majority supported the Democratic candidate - Joseph R. Biden, Jr. In 2020, Biden won 26 states, including Arizona, where he won as the first Democrat in the presidential elections since 1996. With a small margin of only 10,457 votes, every vote was essential. In Arizona, 412,256 people identify as American Indian and Alaska Native and their support for the Democratic candidate proved to be decisive in the 2020 elections. However, only little has been written about American Indians and Alaska Natives and their voting habits. Existing studies suffer from examining only one tribe or state, are old or ambiguous. American Indians and Alaska Natives are also often excluded from collecting and reporting data, and when included, the data is either inaccurate or put them in "the other" category. This work is the first to examine Native American voting in the 2020 presidential election. It aims to prove that the Native vote was one of the aspects that helped Biden win the elections since Native Americans traditionally support the Democratic candidates. To prove my thesis, I compared the results of the 2016 and 2020 elections from the precincts overlapping with tribal lands in Arizona and conducted a quantitative analysis of...
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Content analysis of chain e-mails related to presidential candidates
Tunová, Zuzana ; Jirků, Jan (advisor) ; Cebe, Jan (referee)
This thesis aims to provide analysis of chain emails during the second direct presidential election in the Czech Republic. The main goal of this work is to set out a semiotic analysis in order to provide detailed research of emails related to both candidates Miloš Zeman and Jiří Drahoš. The chain emails usually using a specific linguistic terms and persuasive procedures. Therefore, the attention will be paid mainly to linguistic and persuasive procedures which are identified. In order to examine the phenomenon the theoretical framework will be based on several key words and terms such as: chain emails, disinformation, hoax, semiotics, etc. Aforementioned, this work is aiming to provide a detailed overview of chain mails. In order to address the topic, I will approach the political background within the media context to present solid foundational analysis, which will conduct disinformation topics.
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Direct presidential election in the Czech media environment
Bém, Michal ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Cebe, Jan (referee)
The presented diploma thesis on the topic Direct election of the President in the Czech media environment aims to clarify how the selected internet news portals (iDnes.cz, iRozhlas.cz, Novinky.cz, Blesk.cz) reported on the second rounds of the direct election of the head of state in years 2013 and 2018. The theoretical part of this work focuses on the definition of theoretical concepts, such as media image, media product or representation. It also deals with the factors of the enactment of the direct election of the president and the resulting impact on society. In the analytical part, articles from selected servers in a specific period will be examined with the help of quantitative content analysis, which should, among other things, clarify how the media decided to approach this new institution.
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Comparison of the campaingns of Zuzana Čaputová and Maroš Šefčovič in the second round of the Slovak presidential election in 2019
Florián, Petr ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Konrádová, Marcela (referee)
The assignment focuses on the campaigns of Zuzana Čaputová and Maroš Šefčovič in the Slovak presidential elections in 2019. The main objective is to describe the campaign of both candidates and compare them. Another aim of the assignment is to identify some changes in their communication between the first and the second round of the elections. In the theoretical part, the basic aspects of political marketing are described, because they are very important for the understanding of the subject. This part of the assignment also focuses on the law aspects of presidential function and the elections. The first round of the elections is also described in this part. The main part of the assignment covers the campaigns of the candidates, motivation of the voters and in the end it summarizes what worked in the campaigns.
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TV debates as an tool of pre-election communication of candidates in the Presidential election 2018
Kostelecký, Martin ; Konrádová, Marcela (advisor) ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (referee)
This thesis deals with the presidential debates in the second round of the presidential election in 2018, when Miloš Zeman and Jiří Drahoš met in duels. In the theoretical part of the thesis, I will explain the concepts related to the political communication and introduce the development of political campaigns. Then, I will focus on the development and history of political debates in the world as well as in Czechia. I will also focus on Czech television market and the differences between public and commercial broadcasters. In the practical part, I will perform a quantitative content analysis, which aims to determine whether the candidates used the topics, that the Public Opinion Reseach Center (CVVM) evaluated as the most important for the public. Next, I will perform a pragmalinguistic analysis, which will help to find out whether any of the debates favored any of the candidates. I will also compare the formats of the debates as well as the topics discussed to find out the differences between debate on public and commercial broadcaster. The thesis concludes that there are differences in the concept of debates between public and private television, both in the choice of topics and format, and in the favoring of candidates. It also finds that candidates use the topics which the public considers most...
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