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Political system of Venezuela after 1999. From democracy to authoritarianism?
Hönigová, Nina ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (referee)
The Master's thesis Political System of Venezuela after 1999: From Democracy to Authoritarism? deals with the functional analysis of the contemporary political system of Venezuela. It includes a very complex overview of the crucial legal changes and political events that have shaped the system since 1999. The main constitutional institutions as well as the activities of the civil society are examined from the perspective of the Schumpeter's minimalistic definition of democracy and analyzed more in depth using the qualitative concepts of democracy. The thesis includes a brief introduction to the problematic of the democracy definitions, the hybrid regimes theory and some undemocratic forms of government. On the basis of empirical observations the thesis characterizes the crucial democratic institutions and works with the qualitative analysis of their contemporary functioning. An important part of the thesis is dedicated to the role and space of the civil society, the media and the role of political parties which represent the vital tool of the evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the new socio-economic system of Socialism of the XXIst century. This term introduced by the president of the republic Hugo Chávez Frías comprises the ideas of revolution, social equality and elements of the...
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Political system of Venezuela after 1999. From democracy to authoritarianism?
Hönigová, Nina ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (referee)
The Master's thesis Political System of Venezuela after 1999: From Democracy to Authoritarism? deals with the functional analysis of the contemporary political system of Venezuela. It includes a very complex overview of the crucial legal changes and political events that have shaped the system since 1999. The main constitutional institutions as well as the activities of the civil society are examined from the perspective of the Schumpeter's minimalistic definition of democracy and analyzed more in depth using the qualitative concepts of democracy. The thesis includes a brief introduction to the problematic of the democracy definitions, the hybrid regimes theory and some undemocratic forms of government. On the basis of empirical observations the thesis characterizes the crucial democratic institutions and works with the qualitative analysis of their contemporary functioning. An important part of the thesis is dedicated to the role and space of the civil society, the media and the role of political parties which represent the vital tool of the evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the new socio-economic system of Socialism of the XXIst century. This term introduced by the president of the republic Hugo Chávez Frías comprises the ideas of revolution, social equality and elements of the...
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Theoretical And Practical Aspects Of The Fixed Exchange Rate Regime Applied on Venezuelan Bolivar Between 2003 And 2010
Hőnigová, Nina ; Taušer, Josef (advisor) ; Čajka, Radek (referee)
The Master's thesis analyses the macroeconomic aspects of the exchange rate policy of the administration of president Hugo Chávez Frías in Venezuela in 2003 - 2010. The author focuses first on the comparison of different exchange rate regimes and their compatibility with the commodity depended economies. A special attention is paid to the concept of Peg to Export Price regime (PEP), also called oil standard, of Jeffrey Frankel and its suitability for contemporary Venezuela. The goal of the thesis is to stress that even though the election of a correct exchange rate regime is of great importance for an exporting economy, the success can be achieved only when combining it with an appropriate monetary and fiscal policy. Without an adequate economic policy the regime alone can not provide stability and moderate high inflation.
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The Economic Relations Between The South African Republic And Switzerland On The Background Of The Sanctions Of The UN Against The Apartheid Regime
Hőnigová, Nina ; Steinmetzová, Dana (advisor) ; Vondrušková, Barbora (referee)
The aim of this paper is to examine to which extend did the activities of the Swiss economic actors and the Swiss government help to maintain the apartheid regime in South Africa. It is focused on the famous Swiss banking sector and its relations with its Southafrican clients. One part of the paper is concentrated on the question of breaking the sanctions adopted by the Security Council of the UN, which should have helped to undermine the local rasist regime. The crucial issue in this problematic is to make clear if one non-UN-memberlaw-breaker could be really able to ensure the survival of the weakened regime. I discuss the relevance of the financial and economic cooperation between the SAR and Switzerland and try to show, that Swiss activities really provided the badly needed capital and foreign currencies to the regime in the period of its deepest crisis.But on the other hand that Switzerland was not the only one business partner of the apartheid regime among the western powers and that the decisive role in its elimination was besides sanctions played mainly by other factors. The lack of any obligation for the UN-member states of respecting the sanctions, a great degree of invention on the side of the SAR when replacing the import from its former partners and other belong among them.
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