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The emergence of new political parties in the Czech Republic
Šárovec, Daniel ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to discuss new political parties in the context of the Czech party system. Movement ANO 2011 and Dawn of Direct Democracy are the researched subjects which broke through elections to the Chamber of Deputies in the Czech Republic in 2013. This multiple case study proceeds from the basic and ambiguously gripped notion political party to diverse theoretical aspects of newness, trying to briefly define the Czech party system in the context of new political parties. It is done in terms of legislative rules for (not only new) political parties and also from a developmental view. Afterwards the empirical part works with particular characteristics of two chosen subjects - it gradually focuses on their emergence and development, programme, the leader and members, electoral campaign and their participation in elections. The task of the individual characteristics is to introduce both subjects accurately so their common and different traits are obvious. The gained findings are later assessed by the view of the chosen Sikk's theory of newness. There is examined if ANO and Dawn fall into some of the categories defined by this theory. The diploma thesis tries to shift the state of knowledge of new Czech political parties and refers to the positives and negatives of the chosen...
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Parliamentary Elections in Latvia 2018
Hvězda, Jan ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
This bachelor thesis is a case study of the thirteenth parliamentary election in Latvia that took place on October 6, 2018. The first chapter introduces the political and party system of Latvia and its development after the breakdown of the Soviet Union. At the same time, it observes the election results since 1993 until 2014. The following chapter introduces political parties that took part in 2018 parliamentary election. Three of them are introduced more closely. The text is concerned with their election programmes as well as political affairs. The next chapter is crucial for the study - it describes the long-lasting negotiations resulting in the establishment of the ruling coalition. The result is afterwards reflected by the theory of coalitions. The thesis will try to answer the question why the great coalition of five parties was formed instead of the minimal winning coalition.
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Role of the President and a Question of Confidence in the Government Formation Process in the Czech Republic
Rysová, Kristýna ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
This thesis generally focuses on the president's role in the formation of the first government of Andrej Babiš after the 2017 parliamentary elections. As this government ruled for several months without the confidence of the Chamber of Deputies, the key part of the thesis further concerns the issue of the investiture vote. In the context of the post-election period, the thesis examines specific steps taken by the president in the government formation process in order to evaluate whether the manifestations of the president's influence are in line with the basic preconditions for the functioning of the executive power. The issue of confidence is assessed with respect to whether it is necessary for the government to rely on the confidence of the Chamber of Deputies, both in terms of relations between the executive and the legislature, but also regarding the government performance. Emphasis is therefore placed on the complex problematization of the investiture vote and the issue of confidence is then analysed primarily at the level of government's accountability to the Chamber of Deputies. Furthermore, the thesis confronts the first cabinet of Andrej Babiš with the basic prerequisites for effective government and aims to prove whether its appointment created a cabinet with the potential to govern...
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Political Participation of National Minorities in the Czech Repbulic
Větrovec, Lukáš ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Charvát, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the political participation of national minorities in the Czech Republic. The main aim of this thesis is to find out what the possibilities of national minorities are to enter the political process in order to articulate their specific minority interests and how effective these possibilities are from their perspective. The emphasis is placed on ethnic political parties, minority interest groups, advisory bodies such as the Government Council for National Minorities and committees for national minorities at all political levels. At the same time, these selected minority institutions and bodies are also examined at the international level, which makes it possible to gain an overview of the attitudes of some states to national minority policy and their comparison, or even inspiration for the Czech Republic. The analysis was carried out on a group of five national minorities: German, Polish, Roma, Slovak and Vietnamese. The author also tried to find out how these selected national minorities are politically active, what factors influence their political participation and what is the interest in the issue of national minorities among the majority political parties. The author chose a qualitative research method for the research project and the technique of...
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Designing Health Interventions: The Role of Argument Type and Message Format
Schlosserová, Michaela ; Vranka, Marek (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
8 Abstract According to the study carried out by the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD, 2015) in the Czech Republic, Czech children reported higher alcohol consumption in the last 30 days (68.5 %) compared to the EU average (48%) as well as more common encounters with binge-drinking. The objective of this thesis is to assess the role of argument type and message format found in Health campaigns. The thesis explored the perception of persuasive messages amongst the target group and offers theoretical implications for practitioners. The theoretical part is grounded in current knowledge in social psychology as well as behavioral economics while focusing on argumentation and persuasion. Key theories this thesis is based on include the Social Judgement Theory (Sherif, Sherif, Hovland and Nebergall, 1961), the Elaboration Likelihood Model (Petty and Cacioppo, 1986), the Cognitive Dissonance Theory (Festinger, 1957) and the Theory of Reasoned Action (Fishbein and Ajzen, 1975). The empirical part is based on experiment replication (Cornelis, Cauberghe and De Pelsmacker, 2013) which inspected the perception of messages that dissuade from binge-drinking amongst young adults. This thesis employs printed questionnaire distributed amongst the convenience sample of 232 students attending...
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Female political candidate marfketing. Women in general election's campaigns 2017
Lysková, Taťána ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The Bachelor thesis "Female political candidates marketing: Women in general election's campaigns 2017" deals with the appearance of female candidates in the election campaigns on the example of the campaigns of the parties before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament in the year of 2017. In the theoretical part, this thesis outlines the main barriers to a balanced representation of men and women in the politics. It introduces the state of representation of women in the Czech post-revolutionary politics in general, then describes the development of women's representation in the lower chamber of parliament from 1996 to the present. Furthermore, the thesis describes the gender stereotypes that politicians face the most often, such as attributing special competences or incompetences on the basis of their gender, highlighting their family or maternal roles at the expense of their professional abilities or imposing emphasis on the appearance and clothing of the candidates. Part of the work that has a practical character analyses the election campaigns of the strongest parties in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2017, in terms of presence, meaning the frequency, and the method of displaying their female candidates in them. The analysis relates to selected campaign mediums,...
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