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Causes of low civic and political participation of children and youth in the CR
Rousová, Jindřiška ; Potůček, Martin (advisor) ; Tumová, Anna (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of low civic and political participation of children and youth in the Czech Republic. Participatory democracy theory and theory of civil society are used as starting values. The work deals mainly with organized civic and political participation of children and youth. It is shown, based on several international studies, that in comparison with other states the civic and political participation of Czech children and youth is of the significantly lower level. Area of youth participation falls within the national policy on youth and therefore this work describes basic public-policy documents that are related to the topic of participation of children and youth. In the frame of this work, analysis of the actors involved in the czech youth policy-making, was done. Possible ways of civic and political participation of children and young people, such as children and youth associations, school parliaments, political parties, academic senates, etc, are discussed as well The work identified the main causes of low civic and political participation of children and youth and also proposed specific measures which can help to increase the level of civic and political participation of children and youth in the Czech Republic.
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The Evaluation of Local/Regional Authority Activities in the Case of Ústecký region and Chomutov District
Hellebrandová, Lenka ; Tomeš, Jiří (advisor) ; Šlajchrt, Martin (referee)
This work deals with the issue of governance at the local level in selected municipalities in Ústecký region. Evaluating of governance in selected municipalities is based on analysis of their economy for the period 2002 - 2010. The emphasis is put on the success of municipalities in raising funds and solving problems of this region (unemployment, decline in industrial production, poor educational structure). These facts are confronted with the actual composition of councils and there are investigated differences between the access to the problems of individual municipalities or the governing political parties. Small municipalities are faced with a lack of funds, which leads to significant indebtedness. By contrast large cities are successful in obtaining grants from the EU and can fund various projects. Most of the investigated municipalities invested in building of sports and cultural centres instead supporting the active employment policy.
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Not like us. The social marginalization and integration of minorities in the Czech borderlands while "building the new order" (1945-1960)
Spurný, Matěj ; Štaif, Jiří (advisor) ; Pavelčíková, Nina (referee) ; Brenner, Christiane (referee)
This work considers the changing attitudes of Czech society and its political élite towards minorities in the restored nation-state of Czechoslovakia after the Second World War and in the period of the coming to power of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the stabilization of its dictatorship. To this end, it examines three very heterogeneous minority groups: the ethnic Germans remaining after the expulsions, the Gypsies (Roma), and the Volhynian Czechs. The Czech borderlands (former Sudetenland) were a distinctive space; the processes that took place there are analysed in detail in this work. The discourses and the strategies of legitimation, as well as conflicts and negotiations at the local level, are considered in particular. The aim of the work is to reveal the ideological starting points that the key political actors turned into concrete political aims and the influence that they had on specific events in the border areas, and also the influence that the thinking and notions of local actors had on the transformation of policy and even ideology. Consequently, the work presents a vivid picture of the often ambiguous attitudes amongst the individual components of the Party and State apparat (the senior leadership of the Communist Party, the individual ministries, and the regional and local...
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Adult education in a learning organization
Němec, Zbyněk ; Sycha, Martin (referee) ; Beneš, Milan (advisor)
We are living in a society, which is known like the society of knowledge. The pressure of this turbulent age compels us to all the time learning and developing. About a fact, that the state considers the adult education to be more and more important shows an increasing interest in education policy and also the involvement of the state in the education program presented by international organizations. The adult education becomes to be known like the part of lifelong learning. Still more the people in our society would like to learn and develop self and thereby they are creating the space for developing the other subsystem of the education system - adult education. Lot of us meets the further education during the career when we finished the school. The organizations know, that the investment in knowledge can guarantee the lead before the competition. The learning organization is an ideal model of the education in a company. It is economic and effective model of the education. The concept of the learning organization prefers active learning of the new piece of knowledge before the earlier primary but more passive process - learning by teaching.
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Education Programmes in Nursery Schools
Pavlíčková, Jaromíra ; Kropáčková, Jana (advisor) ; Opravilová, Eva (referee)
The thesis deals with different approaches to the creation of school educational programs in the context of the Framework Educational Program for Pre-School Education. The work combines theoretical and empirical approach. In the theoretical part, historical milestones influencing the educational processes in the Czech lands are described. The text presents, in the chronological order, characteristics of curriculum and pre-school educational programs as they had been introduced between 1945 and 1990. The content summarizes current educational trends, major policy changes and requirements applied on contemporary policy documents. The thesis also deals with new policy strategies and procedures connected with the societal changes and pedagogical findings, defines new pedagogical terms and points out the importance of policy documents. The empirical part includes a completed research project on a regional level analyzing approaches to the development of school educational programs, both in terms of concept and form. It also studies the share of directors, teachers and parents in the creation of such a program and identifies problematic areas on the way to an own school educational program. The aim of the research is to identify whether the individual curriculum documents comply with the Framework Educational...
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Alcohol use by youth: an empirical test of Skog's theory of distribuce of alcohol consumption
Čermáková, Iveta ; Podaná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
This master thesis presents a theory of distribution of alcohol consumption by a Norwegian sociologist Ole-Jørgen Skog (1985), which has had an influence on many alcohol policies. Skog's theory described the relationship between the average alcohol consumption in the population and the consumption at all levels of consumption (from light to heavy drinkers). A change in the average consumption of the population is always followed by a change at each level of consumption; Skog describes this relationship as log-linear (multiple) and argues that the largest changes appears at the level of light drinkers. Another key point of this thesis is to describe the development of underage alcohol consumption in the Czech Republic, compared with Finland, which is the subject of the second chapter. A comparison with Finland was chosen based on the results of an international survey ESPAD, which showed that both countries have different trends in alcohol consumption by youth, and in its excessive form as well (Hibell et al., 2012). Data analysed in this thesis come from international surveys ISRD and ESPAD, which consistently showed that alcohol consumption increases over time among Czech youth, while it decreases in Finland. Furthermore, the Czech Republic has higher prevalence of alcohol consumption. In the...
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The Influence of Interest Groups on the U.S. Govermental Decision-making
Moudřík, Martin ; Kotábová, Věra (advisor) ; Kotlas, Petr (referee)
My thesis is called: The Influence o f Interest Groups on the U.S. Governmental Decision-Making. In the first part, I deal with the conception o f interest groups and lobbying. I tried to find best corresponding definition o f both conceptions. Then I have specified the typology of lobbying and I have also descripied the process o f how the lobbyist is working. I have draw out the relationship between lobbying and corruption. The second part is dedicated solely to the USA. Historical progress o f american interest group is quite long, and there were several laws regarding lobbying. Legal regulations o f lobbying in the United States are also mentioned in my thesis. The second part is ended by a actual estate o f lobbying in United States. Last part is more concrete. I have descripied the impact o f pro-izrael lobby on a american foreign policy. There is also mentioned the organization AIPAC. This organization is one o f most influentional and best organized interest group in the United States. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992 as a factor of changes in Catalan nationalistic discourse of political parties
Balík, Jiří ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
Interrelation between sports and politics in the specific case of the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 offers a wide range of opportunities to strengthen nationalist tendencies of the Catalan society. This thesis examines how the organization of this event affected the development of Catalan nationalistic discourse of political parties. These changes are analysed on two levels. The first level is the evolution over time - the thesis compares the periods before and after the Olympics and looks at trends across each period. The second level is the development in the level of debate - the thesis looks at the category of political parties, at the category of Catalan politics and at the category of the Spanish nationwide politics, while it analyses the moves of the topics and trends across the levels. Thus, the thesis examines trends of the political discourse in the electoral programs, in speeches at annual meetings at the level of the Catalan parliament and in speeches at annual meetings at the level of national Spanish Parliament. The basic parameters of the research work are themes of language policy, cultural policy, the issue of state structure juristic reform, linguistic forms of the discourses and relation to the Olympic Games. The main basis of this work is the contribution of sporting events...
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Gender audit of local policy
Mrňávková, Monika ; Vodáčková, Daniela (advisor) ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (referee)
Předkládaná analýza potvrdila v českém kontextu závěry řady dalších zahraničních výzkumů, které odhalily, že mužům je v naší společnosti umožněn snadnější přístup ke společenským prostředkům, tudíž i k moci. Jak poznamenává Blaire M. Renzetti, "Moc znamená schopnost vnucovat druhým vlastní vůli. Nejmocnějšími členy společnosti jsou obvykle ti, kdo ovládají největší část společenských prostředků, jako jsou peníze, majetek a nástroje fyzického donucování. V hierarchicky strukturovaných společnostech, k nimž patří i ta naše, bývá nerovnost v rozdělení těchto prostředků často závislá i na individuálních vlastnostech, jež člověk nedokáže ovlivnit, jako je rasová a etnická příslušnost, věk a pohlaví."97 Z genderového auditu provedeného v obci Horní Dolní konkrétně vyplynulo, že český stát své závazky vyplývajících z mezinárodních úmluv o prosazování politik rovnosti žen a mužů na úrovni této obce nedodržuje. K prosazování rovných příležitostí zde nedochází a navíc je ze strany představitelů/ek městského úřadu obce k řešení nerovností zaujímán odmítavý postoj. Nepochybně je tomu tak i proto, že o dané problematice mnoho neví a žijí v zajetí celé řady tradičních představ o ženách a mužích. Z uvedené případové studie je dále patrné, že pokud mají vládní Priority dojít naplnění, je nanejvýš nutné začít posilovat...
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Central Bank Monitoring - December 2016
Česká národní banka
Most of the central banks under review are maintaining their interest rates at the current low level or considering a further monetary policy easing. For example, Norges Bank is considering lowering its key rate and the Riksbank increasing the volume of purchased bonds. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has lowered the key rate further. The ECB left interest rates unchanged in the previous period but extended its bond purchase programme and adjusted its parameters. On the other hand, the global economy is watching anxiously whether the Fed’s interest rates increase as expected at the close of this year. Spotlight addresses the effect of climate change on the financial sector, including central bank policies. In our Selected speech, member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank Andreas Dombret focuses on the perspectives of business models of commercial banks.
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