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Chile: From Democracy to Socialism
Školkayová, Marta ; Calda, Miloš (advisor) ; Kozák, Kryštof (referee)
The diploma thesis "Chile: from democracy to socialism" deals with involvement of the United States administration in the political development in Chile during 1960s and its influence on the presidential elections in the year 1970. First part describes political development in Chile from the late 1950s to the beginning of 1970s; especially it focuses on successes and failures of Eduardo Frei administration and how its government influenced the results of the 1970 presidential elections. The other part documents methods by which the secret services and the United States administration influenced the course of events in the Chilean society and on the political scene during the election year 1970 and what means were used to prevent the accession of power of Salvador Allende. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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US Presidential elections 2012: Foreign policy in the election campaign
Kubný, Adam ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
The objective of this thesis lies in analyzing the role of foreign policy in the election campaign before the U.S. presidential election in 2012. At the beginning of the work were established three research questions. What is the role of foreign policy in the campaign? What are the main issues? The third question concern itself with the assessment of the areas, where both candidates agree and where they were unable to find a common solution to the problem. The actual content of the work is based on the method of content analysis and in the last chapter of textual analysis. The whole thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter will outline the process of the election of the President and then will present the election results of 2012. The second one will briefly characterize the history of U.S. foreign policy and theoretical base on which it is built. The last part will consist of analyzing the role of foreign policy in the election campaign of both candidates.
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Presidential Election in the US 2012: Influence of new media on political campaigns
Chrtová, Michaela ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
The Thesis deals with the influence of new media on the organization of a political campaign. It is based on theories of political communication and new media, which it compares with real usage of these media during the US presidential campaign in 2012. The Thesis is divided into three parts; first of which deals with the theoretical framework of new media and political communication, including an outline of historic development and greatest changes that have occurred since 1950s. In second part, the system and milestones of American presidential elections are characterized, as they are very different from European elections. Both campaigns, Republican and Democratic, are also described. The last chapter is concerned with a particular usage of new media in both campaigns -- individual subchapters include depiction of presidential debates, which are an important part of the election process, international image of both candidates, negative campaigning distributed mainly by new media, and specific usage of new and social media by campaign teams. Volunteers constitute an integral part of the American voting system, which is why one subchapter describes their pursuits and organization.
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Business voluntariness in Czech Republic - Activities of Czech Donors Forum
Dvořáková, Tereza ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
Conceptions of corporate philantrophy and corporate social responsibility brought to the Czech Republic by multinational concerns influence strategies of companies of various sizes and industries more and more. The activities of Czech Donors Forum and other relevant organisations take an important share in these concepts as they seek to their popularisation. The main task of this bachelor thesis is to find out, how do these organisations motivate companies to cooperate with non-profit organisations on welfare projects. The first part of the thesis defines philantrophy, corporate philantrophy and corporate social responsibility in theoretical way. The second part analyses actual czech legislation which regulates the activities of nonprofit organisations and funding of their projects. The last part focuses on missions and activities of selected czech organisations: Czech Donors Forum, The VIA Foundation and Business for the Society.
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Anti-corruption organizations in the Czech Republic
Vojáčková, Anna ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
The corruption and the fight against it falls among very frequently discussed topics appearing on the front pages of media, also this phenomenon is currently being intensively discussed and plays an ever increasing role in the civil society as well. Recently, the civil society has shown a new trend which manifests itself in the birth of new anti-corruption organizations, new projects and other activities. Because of all the reasons, the paper deals with the anti-corruption non-governmental organizations (NGO's) and their activities in the Czech Republic. The text is divided into four chapters constituting two parts having two chapters each. The first part contains a summary of theoretical knowledge, the first chapter describes the non-profit sector and NGO's activities theory, the second chapter summarizes the basic theoretical information about the corruption phenomenon. The second part focuses on the description of the anti-corruption organizations, employs the theoretical knowledge and provides an analysis of the anti-corruption NGOs. The third chapter describes particular organizations, analyzes their activities and, based on some common characteristics recognized, outlines the division of the organizations into several groups. The fourth chapter contains an analysis on cooperating between different anti-corruption NGOs and handles a case study of a so called Pankrácká výzva(Pankrácká challenge).
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Terrorism and islam
Plšková, Michaela ; Prorok, Vladimír (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyses the possible connection between islam and terrorism. The autor focuses on the truth behind the premise that islam is by default a religion leading to the perpetration of terrorist acts or if this premise is caused only by the misinterpretation of the Qur'an and the misuse of religion for the sake of violence. The aim of this thesis is to prove that to identify islam with terrorism is wrong because the spreading of the islamic values is not conditioned by power forces.
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The Relation of Indigenous Movements to the Government of Evo Morales: Between the Government and the Opposition
Seifertová, Zuzana ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
This work is about the relation of indigenous movements to the government of Evo Morales, who became the first president of indigenous origin in Latin America. After his entry to the president office many reforms were introduced and a new constitution was adopted in favour of indigenous people. At present a support of his own movement declines and his government faces heavy problems and difficulties due to contraversaries with indigenous people. A development in establishing of indigenous organizations in Latin America is described with an emphase put on indigenous movements in Bolivia. The work is particularly focused on the causes behind the conflict between Evo Morales and indigenous people. The aim of the paper is to find out, why the attitude of indigenous people to the government has changed and to which extent it is a result of the policy of Evo Morales.
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The use of referendums in USA
Nekovařík, Tomáš ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the importance of the elements of direct democracy in the U.S. political system, or at the level of single U.S. states. In this thesis I find out in which connectivity the elements of direct democracy came into the political systems of some states, what types of elements of direct democracy are most frequently used, and what topics are the subjects of referendums and popular initiatives. In the first part I briefly focus on a general definition and history of direct democracy, including the definition of individual elements. Furthermore, I write about direct democracy in the United States, specifically its history, its development and uses. The main part contains a case study of the use of direct democracy in one of the U.S. state. For these purposes, I chose California, which uses various elements of direct democracy: referendum, popular initiative and recall, very often.
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Crisis of the representative function of political parties in Chile
Beranová, Marie ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
Over the last year, Chile has witnessed a large number of anti-governmental protests against the cabinet of Sebastián Piňera, from which the protests of the university students reached the biggest strenght. The bachelor's thesis deals with the phenomenon of student protests in the context of contemporary Chilean party system and its political parties, which are currently undergoing a crisis of representation. The theoretical part of the thesis describes party systems and functions of political parties, especially the representative function. The first chapter of the empirical part of the thesis examines current conditions of the contemporary Chilean party system, into which the anti-governmental student protests, described in the following chapter, are set. The thesis concludes with reactions of both governmental and oposition coalitions to the student protests and to the political parties crisis. The main aim of the thesis is to answer the question why the decreasing support of the government does not lead to a rise of preferences for the oposition.
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Projects of Transparency International in Visegrad Four
Kultová, Dana ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
Corruption is one of the major problems of modern society and it must be actively addressed. This issue puts in target international non-profit and non-governmental organisation Transparency International, which deals with mapping and combating corruption in many countries around the world. First part of the theses defines corruption in theoretical way. The second part introduces the organisation of Transparency International in general and the last part is about projects organised by Transparency International in Visegrad Four. As these countries have a similar historical development and a close geographic location they could be considered as a suitable sample in comparing corruption activities and especially in comparing projects of Transparency International and its national chapters. The main task of this work is to find out whether trends to corruption are in Visegrad Four identical or similar and Transparency International could implement its projects in more countries at once or whether it is necessary to deal with corruption in each country individual. Whether the countries face the same problems of corruption arises here a second question if national chapters are cooperating on these projects eliminating corruption or not.
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