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Expert capacities of the Czech political parties: case study of defence policy
Bayerová, Anežka ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Vymětal, Petr (referee)
The thesis deals with marginally explored area of expert capacities of the Czech political parties with respect to the different organizational types of selected political parties and movements. The work aims to find out what expert capacities work for these types of political parties, how these experts are recruited in their position, whether it corresponds to their educational background and professional experiences with function, which are they holding in the expert authority. Work is elaborated in the form of case study, which focuses on the activities of defense policy expert commissions. The text is divided into two theoretical and one empirical chapters. The first chapter deals with the process of policy-making, its actors and activities associated with this process. The second chapter defines the various types of political parties first from the mainstream perspective (cadre, mass, catch-all parties), which complements the modern concept of business party and finally there is a typology of S. Wolinetz (office-seeking, vote-seeking, policy-seeking parties). The last empirical chapter presents the case study focused on four Czech political parties (TOP 09, KSČM, ČSSD and political movement ANO 2011) and their access to party expertise. The result of this work is to compare the level of analytical capacity across selected political parties/movements and testing of hypotheses formulated in the introduction of the thesis.
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The funding of political parties and movements: Financial monitoring of election campaigns in 2013
Bayerová, Anežka ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Kný, Daniel (referee)
This thesis focuses on the financing of the Czech political parties and movements. The work aims to show the financing of election campaigns and to evaluate the transparency of the candidate parties and movements in the context of early elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2013. It seeks to find an answer to the question whether the opening of transparent accounts is an effective instrument to prevent non -- transparent conduct of political parties. Then I ask on the effectiveness of projects monitoring the financing of election campaigns, which was carried out by the organization Transparency International -- Czech Republic in this case. A side effect of this work is to answer the questions, by what means could be achieved a more transparent political environment and if it succeeds how we reach a state in which would be the new established changes respected? The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter has purely theoretical character and focuses on the model of financing of political parties in the Czech Republic, legislation governing this area and the proposed regulatory measures. The second chapter summarizes the assessment of the political parties and movements, who participated in the project of financial monitoring in the context of election campaigns. Parties are evaluated according to criteria designed to assess their openness to the voters. The third chapter contains a summary of the financial monitoring and analytical interpretation of transparent accounts of the political parties. At the end of the work can be found a data comparison, which compares dates from the financial monitoring with those from the annual financial reports. At this point, it is undoubtedly necessary to amend the current legislation governing the political funding, for the lack of rules, which proved the work.
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