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Return on investment in passive houses and their subsidies
Malinová, Kateřina ; Písař, Pavel (advisor) ; Šmíd, Jan (referee)
Recently one of the most discussed themes is climate change and green parties come into a political scene. They further policy of ecological taxes which increase prices of energy. The consumers react to this increase of price and the demand of energy-saving style of life is increasing. That's why the passive houses are so popular in Europe especially in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Czech Republic reacts against it with a grant programme "Green savings" which was debatable at the beginning. It is because of a condition that grants can be utilized only by people who will have a passive house built by suppliers from the List of Qualified Suppliers which is state on websites of Department of the Environment. That passive house is usually more expensive even if you get the grant. I would like to find advantages and disadvantages of The Green Savings programme. The main goal of Bachelor Thesis is finding out if is profitable to invest into passive houses development in Czech Republic in term of investment return. As good efficient example I use the seminar building of Centre Veronica Hostětín which is the first public building in Czech Republic.
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On Dynamics of "New Wars": Clausewitzian Analysis of Factors Related to Dynamics of Armed Conflicts in Post-Communist Area
Kučera, Tomáš ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bureš, Oldřich (referee)
Armed conflict that occurred after the end of the Cold War in the territory of former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union belong to the so cold phenomenon of new wars. New wars are said to differ from the old ones in its aims, methods of warfare, and in ways how they are iv financed. In spite of these supposed changes in fundamental character of war, a conflict dynamics - defined by intensity, rapidity of escalation, and conflict duration - of armed conflicts in post-communist area corresponds with classic notion of war, as it was described by Carl von Clausewitz. According to the theory based on Clausewitz's work conflict course can be seen as a resultant of three forces - group hostility, ability to build up and maintain military organisation, and rationality of political leadership. Group hostility works as driving power toward very escalated and long-lasting armed conflict and political leadership that realises aim of the war and its consequences for political relations in the aftermath works as a counterforce to hostility and therefore attempt to maintain intensity of violence within limits drawn by political aims. Without quick build up of a military organisation there cannot be supposed a rapid conflict escalation at the beginning of an armed conflict. The resultant of all the three forces, which reach in...
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Municipal policy and the fight against unemployment in Great Depression on the example of Prague
Chomiaková, Šárka ; Kozmanová, Irena (advisor) ; Szobi, Pavel (referee)
Thesis analyzes the fight against unemployment and its consequences on the example of Prague. It is based on a finding of insufficiency of Ghent system after the beginning of the Great Depression and follows the example of the possibilities and limits of Prague municipal politics as an alternative, addition of state policy respectively. Thesis analyzes subsequent and preventive measures by city and concludes that Prague has been primarily focused on politics subsequent. It is focused on providing kind and later on productive care and deals with setting the conditions for their using. Thesis concludes that primarily benefits system was too multifarious and complicated. And for second Prague hasn't devoted much to preventive measures.
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Josef Úlehla And His Contribution to Eduactional Reforms at the turn of 19th and 20th Century
ŠKODOVÁ, Eliška
The thesis deals with the life and work of Josef Úlehla, a Czech reformist educator. It studies his educational, public and political activities and work in Ústřední spolek jednot učitelských na Moravě (The Moravian Teachers Union). The time of Austria-Hungary empire, political and religious influences on education in {\clq}qCountries of the Czech Crown`` are characterized in the first part of the thesis. The beginnings and evolution of the educational reform movement in Moravia is studied in detail. The second part presents a biography of Josef Úlehla and his educational activities which led to his idea of {\clq}qfree school``. The thesis concludes by summarizing the importance and reformatory contribution of Úlehla{\crq}s work to educational reforms before WW2 and the reactions of his contemporaries and followers.
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The electoral system in the Parliament of the Czech Republic and its possible revision
TENKL, Miroslav
This bachelor work deals in the beginning part with the basic theoretical definition and classification of electoral systems. In the next part there is the detailed analysis of the development of the electoral system in Czech countries from the first half of 19TH century until today. The last part focus on the analysis of current electoral rules and their influence on the potential of new originated governments and their potential to do a coalition. It presents also the suggestions of political parties for doing a new reform of the electoral system nowadays.
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Stalin's monument in Prague
Šindelář, Jan ; Pokorný, Jiří (referee) ; Václavů, Lubor (advisor)
was unveiled on 1st May 1955 as a part of the celebration of 10th anniversary of the end of the WW2; more than two years after Stalin's death. The political situation in the Soviet block was changed after N. S. Khrushchev's speech on the cult of Stalin's personality on the XX congress of the Soviet communist party in February 1956 and also on the XXII congress in autumn 1961. The satellite states had to modify their ideology against the cult of personality; therefore also the Stalin's monument in Prague was removed in autumn 1962. Nowadays, on the monument's place there are only stairs, a promenade and a pedestal with a high metronome by V. K. Novák. Stalin's monument in Prague was destroyed after only 7 years of its existence by the same political power which built it. From the beginning the project was intensively monitored and supported by the most powerful memebers of the leading communist party, but the main political line for Soviet satellites was ordered from Moscow. The "rise and fall" of Stalin's monument in Prague is a good example of this fact.
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The Development of the Party System in the Russian Federation
Malátová, Lenka ; Prorok, Vladimír (advisor) ; Gutsul, Yulia (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the development of the party system in the Russian Federation to determine whether this development can be applied to the classical theory of political parties and party systems designed by european political scientists. In the first chapter there are described theories designed by Maurice Duverger, Jean Blondel, Stein Rokkan and Giovanni Sartori. In the second chapter there is the description of the beginning of the party system in Tsarist Russia. Its task is to draw the options and foundations of the first political party in that territory. The third chapter focuses to the reign of the CPSU, the tools of its government and the reasons for the gradual weakening of its power. The fourth chapter is divided into two parts, the first of which describes the development of the party system in Russia since the fall of the USSR, the second part deals with the comparison of theoretical concepts mentioned in the first chapter and the actual development in Russia.
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Far right in Scandinavia: achievements and failures
Košatková, Iva ; Bureš, Jan (advisor) ; Buben, Radek (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with far right parties in Scandinavia and their achievements and failures since their birth in the beginning of the seventies. Conditions of the origin and development of the contemporary far right parties and a definition of this ideological party family are analyzed on the background of a broader theoretical framework. The thesis pursues ideological-political and programmatic shifts of the Progress Party (FrPd) and Danish People's Party (DFP) in Denmark, Progress Party (FrPn) in Norway and New Democracy (NyD) in Sweden and their contemporary role within the system using Beyme's concept of three waves of the postwar far right in Western Europe. The aim of this diploma thesis is to find out which factors and conditions were relevant for the emergence and subsequent consolidation of new far right parties in the three respective Scandinavian party systems chosen as subjects of this comparative analysis. Comparing the two successful far right parties - the Norwegian and Danish Progress Parties plus the Danish People's Party - with the negative case of Sweden's New Democracy, the thesis concludes that economic stability and prosperity with low unemployment rate on the system level and charismatic leadership with strong party organisation on the party level are most favourable to the...
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Reforms and modernization in Islamic world: Turkey, Iran and Syria
Stein, Michal ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis aims to analyze the specific concepts of modernization in three chosen countries. The specific countries, which are being analyzed in this thesis, are: Turkey under the rule of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), Iran under the rule of Riza Shah and Syria until the rule of Baath Party in Syria in the beginning in the 1960's, especially during the Army-Party convergence period. At least in specific cases of Turkey and Iran, authoritarian modernization under different leaders attempted to change the society by the ways of westernization. The goal was to transform the society by changing its features and character of the system. In some areas and some countries, some of the desired social and political reforms were successfully achieved. On the other hand some reforms were not successful because of various internal and external challenges. This work tries to analyze the processes of modernization driven by authoritarian regimes in these countries, their accomplishments and failures. Political development took different forms and was pulled by different circumstances. These three Islamic countries vary in their success and failure. I consider Turkey to be an example of a successful transformation. Iran under Riza Shah was not so achievement due to errors in process and sequence of the reforms. Situation in...
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Political cycle in times of economic crisis
Joska, Jan ; Czesaný, Slavoj (advisor) ; Mládek, Josef (referee)
The diploma thesis analyzes, whether became in the case of the development of real GDP, inflation and unemployment in the Czech Republic and the USA to systematic influence these macroeconomic indicators of the ruling parties and their political orientation. The work is focused on the period from the beginning of the 1990's of 20th century to the present, with an emphasis on the pre-crisis and crisis periods of the current economic crisis. Tested are two fundamental theoretical concepts. The first one is a model of opportunistic theories of the business cycle, then the second one, the model of the ideological theory of the economic cycle. The work also analyzes whether there was in these two states deliberate influencing of government expenditure in electoral periods in order to increase the chances of government politicians for re-election. The work also explores the similarities and differences of the pre-crisis and crisis periods of the current economic crisis to the great depression of the 1930's of 20th century.
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