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"The reception of Robert Paxton's book La France de Vichy by French press and French academic community"
Emler, David ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
Ce mémoire de diplome parle de la réception du livre La France de Vichy, 1940- 1944 de l'historien Américain Robert O. Paxton par la presse et la communauté universitaire fran9 aise. La publication de ce livre en janvier 1973 a causé une affaire publique - La France de Vichy a été commenté par presque chaque périodique d'importance. Tout cela malgré le fait que la premiere livre de Paxton Parades and Politics at Vichy: The French Officer Corps Under Marshall Pétain (qui d'ailleurs n'était pas traduit en frangais) a été complětement ignoré par la communauté historienne fran^aise, meme si elle contenait plus d'un grain des theses principales de Paxton. Aux Etats-Unis La France de Vichy a été unanimement salué comme un livre de trés haute qualité, qui remplace les études ultérieures. En France les réactions étaient beaucoup plus mitigées. Dans les colonnes du Monde une polémique a duré plusieurs semaines. Ce débat agité peut etre expliqué ďune part par les theses de Paxton, qui rompaient avec le paradigme de Vichy, instauré par Robert Aron et son L'histoire de Vichy de 1954. Paxton constatait que la collaboration était une proposition frangaise et non une demande allemande, il était critique envers l'opinion publique fran?ais qui était favorable á Pétain děs le début du régime de Vichy, et surtout, il était...
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Cambodia on its way to democracy
Gecelovská, Lucia ; Volenec, Otakar (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
The paper delas with the political development in Cambodia since it gained its independence until today. It introduces four authoritative regimes, which occured in the country until the end of the Cold war: Sihanouk's rule, Lon Nol's republic, Khmer Rouge revolution and the period of Vietnamese occupation and the government supported by the vietnamese communists. In the next part it deals with the UN mission called UNTAC, the aim of which was to settle down the conflict in the country and to accomplish the free and fair election. It countinues with the development in the 90-ties and in the new century. The paper finishes with the present situation and with the possible future development.
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The importance of EU as an external factor on democratic consolidation. The cases of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Hilleren, Ann Katrin ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (referee)
The breakdown of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe has offered scholars in the field of transition and regime change theory, and comparative politics in general, a major opportunity to test out former theories, but also formulate new ones. Obviously, no theory is alone applicable to the complexity of the transitions. There is a variety of cases, each with distinct developments before, during and after the transition to democracy has been completed. Some common features are still possible to extract when studying regime change in a region. As for Central and Eastern Europe, one of the most outstanding characteristics of the transition to democracy has been the visibility and importance of external factors. Previously the view was held that external factors were essentially secondary to domestic processes of regime change. The studies on Central and Eastern Europe carried out the last 15 years might show another picture, and that leads us to the core of this paper. How important have the external factors been? After providing the reader with some relevant theories on democracy and démocratisation, the focus is turned to the examination of external influences on transition in this region. In order to narrow down the complexity of the subject, the European Union has been chosen as the variable to...
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The Comparison of Media Influence on Political Thinking of People in
Bubníková, Lucie ; Havlík, Radomír (referee) ; Stracený, Josef (advisor)
In this final project is compared how media influenced a political thinking of people in The Czech Republic during the comunist regime and how they influece it now, in the time of democracy. There are described the main principals of the masmedias, the political and economical censorship, the regulation by law. The last didactical chapter contains some activities, that can help to integrate medial education into the individual subjects.
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The American Media's Failure before the Iraq War in 2003
Sošťáková, Markéta ; Kozák, Kryštof (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
The bachelor's thesis The American Media's Failure before the Iraq War in 2003 deals with the media's uncritical coverage of the threat posed by Iraqi program of weapons of mass destruction. The thesis analyses American print media coverage in period after the attacks of September 11, 2001 until the beginning of the Iraq War in March 2003. It seeks to determine the cause of this major crisis in the history of American journalism The thesis is divided into three sections. The first part deals with intensive pro-war campaign under the Bush administration in an attempt to achieve political and social consent for the invasion to Iraq. The political marketing campaign consisted of the manipulation of WMD intelligence, escalation of rhetoric about the danger that Iraq posed to the United States and speculations about Iraqi support of terroristic organisations. The second section of the thesis is dedicated to a comparative content analysis of prewar coverage at The New York Times and newspapers published by The Knight Ridder. The final part traces the changes in American journalism in recent years. It explains how the quality of prewar coverage was influenced by these changes such as rising economic pressure, frequently quoted anonymous sources, unbalanced coverage in favor of the administration position...
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Comparision of Selected Stock Markets in Spain and South American Countries
Šotlíková, Lucie ; Veselá, Jitka (advisor)
The main aim of my thesis is the comparison of the three selected Iberian and South American stock markets: Stock market in Madrid, Caracas and Santiago. I will focus on the reasons that enable development of these stock markets, including not only the economical reasons and effects, but also political actions, especially government of each city, economical, social and oil crisis, the way they are organized and how they operate. Furthermore, I will compare the articles and instruments of each exchange quotation. Moreover, there are included entry and exchange conditions, index of these stock exchange markets, their characteristics and their constitutions. Consequently, I will try to analyze some of the published statistical data of the stock markets, such as the capacity of business dealing, selling capitalization, number of dealing corporations, the value of joint-stock companies, quantities of issued bonds and stocks and bonos.
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Engelbert Dollfuss and the Central Europe 1932-1933
Šepták, Miroslav ; Stellner, František (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
The diploma paper which I was elaborating is focused on the first year of the governance Austrian chancellor Engelbert Doll fuss. Data of that governance were taken from unpublished sources of Czech, Austrian and German province as well as from published Czech, Austrian and German sources. In area of economy he decided to apply the strict deflation policy as a result of big economic depression. Business strategy of such country led to the only one effort - to sign new business agreements established on preferential base. At the beginning of Dollfuss's governance there existed a possibility of big coalition with social democrats but step by step the ideological difference was increasing. The more threat was coming from Nazism the more isolated Austrian policy turned. The chancellor was trying to strengthen political power of parliamentary majority which was very weak. Unsuccessfully. This non success made him put his mind to the alternative form of regime. The piece of luck helped him to get out from unpleasant situation. He took advantage of formal lack of Austrian pluralism and was continually setting up authoritative regime. In area of foreign policy he reduced options of Danube's federation as well as orientation to France because he didn't consider these possibilities profitable for Austria. He had...
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The Influence of the New Federal States on the German Party System After Unification
Krejčová, Jaroslava ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Moravcová, Dagmar (referee)
The collapse of the communist regime in German Democratic republic caused factual loss of legitimacy of the republic as a whole. The events of 1989 and 1990 have brought the end of separation of both German states. The both parts of Germany were unified on October 3rd, 1990, but internal unity of the new state is 15 years later still far from reality. Two undemocratic regimes, one following another, interrupted traditional affiliations between voters and political parties hardly. New period of the German party system has started. Although the influence of the West German parties on constitution of the democratic East German party system was dominant, there has established unique party system with own specifics. The most measurable diversity of the East German party system is the presence of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). This communist successor party has been successful in fast every elections since German Unification, last time she won over the quarter of East German votes. Thanks to the association with the new West German left party, called Electoral Alternative Work and Social Justice (WASG), the Left party/PDS has won 54 seats in the 16th Bundestag. Few months afterwards there was built a Great Coalition of Christian democrats (CDU/CSU) and social democrats (SPD), which in its consequence...
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The structure of trade-unionistical press between 1945-1948
Seemanová, Petra ; Sekera, Martin (referee) ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor)
This diploma thesis "Structure of Trade-Unionstical Press Between 1945-1948" is focused on the period from May 1945 till 25th October 1948. The first part is mainly concentrated on the situation within this period. At first it was needed to mention the political background and afterwards the proces of the formation of "ROH" (Revolutional Trade-Unions) itself. There are introduced the heads of "ÚRO" (Central Council of the Trade-Unions), who had influence in shaping the trade press. In particular there is noted the charakter of Otakar Wünsch - editor URO and President of the Association of Czech contemporary journalists.On his example here is shown the influence of KSČ (Communist Party) on the members of another political parties going through Trade-Union as well. This work is also trying to highlight the links with trade union politics, specifically the policy of the Communist Party and their influence on post-war press. The following are mentioned as well the problems that accompanied the beginnings of print publishing of trade press. They concerned mainly the lack of qualified journalists, the economic situation of individual journals and their readers. The second part describes the structure of the Trade Union's press. The press was divided into basic categories: newspapers, press for officers,...
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Creating Theatre
Hrbek, Daniel ; Vostrý, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Hyvnar, Jan (referee) ; Gajdoš, Július (referee) ; Císař, Jan (referee)
In the course of the 1990s, prague treatres saw a dynamic development linked to the change of the political regime, to the emergene of a new theatre generation (the treatre trend- and poetics settrs gradually replaced),tot he conceptual and spontaneous transformation of the Prague theatre networ, and also to the changes in financing of culture in prague. As a result of this development, in the 1990s new theatr companies and theatres were established or recreated. On the other hand, other traditional theatres ceased to exist.
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