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The Washout of Elite Replacement as a Factor in the Failure of Democracy in Russia
Klepš, Václav ; Kučera, Rudolf (advisor) ; Holzer, Jan (referee)
The graduation thesis "The Washout of Elite Replacement as a Factor in the Failure of Democracy in Russia" deals with Russian elite during the govemment of the présidents Boris Yeltzin and Vladimir Putin. Its goal is to describe its composition and depict its change in time. This general portrait of the elite is supplemented with biographies of the representatives of Russian elite in a given period. The thesis draws on an extensive theoretical material, which tries to comprehend (describe) the elite phenomenon and its role in the transitive period. This theoretical basics should be helpful for understanding its role in society, especially during the turning points. This graduation thesis perceives structure of ruling elite as a key factor for the form and quality of political regime. The main groups, which Russian elite is composed of, are introduced. An emphasis is put on the way how these groups are incorporated into the elite (i.e. on the recruitment process) and which sort of society works as its staff supply. A great number of this staff originating from secret services and military is considered a bottle-neck of a functional liberal democracy in Russia. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Importance of Religious Parties in Israeli Party Systém
Košťálová, Markéta ; Kučera, Rudolf (advisor) ; Fingerland, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis named "The Importance of Religious Parties in Israeli Party System" deals with these parties' position during last century. In the first part it defines main characteristics of the political system that enables religious parties to be active on the Israeli political scene and points out historical milestones of their genesis. The core of the work is an analysis of the position of main religious parties in the party system viewed from three conflicting lines having the biggest impact on its present form. The penultimate chapter defines the most important religious parties which are active in the Knesset and searches for their attributes. At the end I mention the unique electorate from which many religious parties gain their ever increasing political and electoral strength. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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State, nobility and elite change. The comparison of noble ceremonies in Silesia and Bohemia 1806-1871
Kučera, Rudolf ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Kocka, Jürgen (referee) ; Ther, Philipp (referee)
Práce zkoumá nobilitační praxi ve střední Evropě 19. století. Vychází z teoretických konceptů současné neo-tocquevilliánské státovědy a politologie, které definují stát jako autonomně jednajícího společenského aktéra, který svými praktikami a konfigurací vědomě, ale i nevědomě ovlivňuje strukturu vztahů s jinými společenskými aktéry i vztahy mezi těmito aktéry samotnými. Nobilitace jsou proto pojímány právě jako jeden z prostředků státního vlivu na vztahy mezi různými společenskými aktéry. Pomocí nobilitací, jako nejvyšší formy státního vyznamenání, které příjemcům zajišťovalo dědičné symbolické i materiální výhody, distribuoval stát ve společnosti veřejné uznání a symbolický kapitál a vědomě i nevědomě tak podporoval určité skupiny a vzorce chování, zatímco jiné nechával stranou. Základní otázky práce proto znějí: Jaké sociální a politické hranice rýsoval stát ve společnosti pomocí nobilitační praxe? Kterým skupinám a kulturním praktikám poskytoval stát pomocí nobilitací veřejné uznání, a které naopak při distribuci šlechtických titulů nezohledňoval? Jaké byly hlavní dynamizující endogenní a exogenní faktory, které určovaly vývoj nobilitační praxe? Jak a proč se měnily státem uznávané "katalogy šlechtických ctností"? Při zodpovídání těchto otázek se práce opírá o komparativní metodu, která umožňuje...
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Elections and Islamist Parties
Červenka, David ; Kučera, Rudolf (advisor) ; Lebeda, Tomáš (referee)
Diploma thesis entitled "Elections and Islamist Parties" analyzes issues concerning electoral and democratization processes in Islamic countries. The work describes history, origins, evolution and viability of electoral and political systems in the Turkish Republic and in the Egyptian Arabic Republic - both regarded as regional powers - in the light of their electoral processes as Islamic political parties in both countries show clear fundamentalist tendencies. Both countries, however, enjoy stability guaranteed by dictatorship or strong position of the military. Especially in historical context, it is evident that electoral procedures based on Western criteria aren't suitable. Diploma thesis analyzes the potential of electoral systems applicable for these countries. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The state's essence and function in the Social Teaching of the Church
Šabatka, Michal ; Kolář, Petr (advisor) ; Kučera, Rudolf (referee)
Over a century of the Catholic C hurch's social teaching is a topic of many economical and sociological studies. However, there is an absence of a compact political scientific view on the basis and principles of the Church's social doctrine. A description and evolution of the dimensions of the C hurch's social teaching seen from the view of political is the topic of this thesis. The C hurch's social teaching represents a compact group of documents, although different in some details, in which the Catholic Church expresses its view on economical and political aspects of human existence. A primary resource for C h u rch 's teaching in this field is the aristotle-thomistic philosophical reflexion of human social existence that considers some human anthropological natures to be essential for a determination of his social existence. The subject of the C hurch's social doctrine therefore represents a compact system in its historical perspective suited to its historical operation.
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The Civil Religion of the USA and its Perspectives in the EU
Šulc, Michal ; Kučera, Rudolf (advisor) ; Kotábová, Věra (referee)
This work is intent on the problem of religious elements present in modem political systems. Its thesis is based on a presumption that religion and its consequences, is still one of the main sources of thinking even in such secularized area as the political space. I assume that the religious elements are present in ideologies as expressions of believe and longing for perfection, which can be reached in the frame of future man existence. That's why the ideologies are called secular religions, because they place the man's salvation to existing people's world, when they try to invent the best - even perfect - systems of social order and policy. That means that they secularize purposes to which the traditional religions (like for example Christianity) try to reach. Ideologies transfer these purposes, to which they refer to their values, to this world, which people recognize as real. It means that they do them "imanent." One of examples of the group of secular religions is the "civil religion" which refers to citizens of a state concentrated to entity of the "People" as to the authority which should decide on everything - values, principles of the society and policy through which the society should be saved (or better redeemed). The base of this decision is in the consensus resulted in a united "general will" of...
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