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Proposal for the Czech Statutory City Districts Autonomy Index
Hála, Jaroslav ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Huňady, Martin (referee)
Czech statutory cities are enabled by The Municipal Law to divide their territory into sub- municipal units. This competency has been used by seven Czech statutory cities, which established city districts. Cities had entrusted their sub-municipal units with different amount of authority and autonomy. Firstly, the factors of sub-municipal autonomy are being identified. Significant are: the volume of finances, which city districts operate with; their access to external grants; the scope of policies and public services in which they are being included; competence to establish its own organisational units; influence on city legislation and representation in the institutions of the statutory city. Based on the factors the sub-municipal autonomy index is being proposed. The index is applicable on the seven statutory cities with their city districts. The index constructed from these factors attributes sub-municipal units of Brno and Ostrava with the highest amount of autonomy, and units of Ústí and Labem and Pardubice with the lowest amount of autonomy. Based on index values and interviews with actors of sub-municipal politics are the cities of Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec being labelled as "truly decentralized" and the cities of Ústí and Labem and Pardubice as "rather deconcentrated".
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The Election Campaigning and 2016 Regional Election in the Czech Republic
Huňady, Martin ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Jüptner, Petr (referee)
This thesis analyzes the election campaigns of six parties and movements (ANO 2011, ČSSD, TOP 09, ODS, KSČM, KDU-CSL) and one coalition (SPD-SPO). The aim of the diploma thesis is to analyze the election campaigns before the regional councils, which took place on 7.10. - 8.10.2016. In terms of methodology, qualitative research was applied in the diploma thesis. The first part of the thesis focuses on political marketing, which was used in the regional elections in 2016. The second part of the thesis deals with the campaigns of five parties of one movement and one coalition. Political parties have used various forms of political marketing in their campaigns. Elections to regional assemblies did not have one crucial topic to unify the entire political spectrum. Not even within the opposition was a single unifying theme linking the opposition against the government. Each political party chose its sub-theme. All parties had a centralized campaign. CSSD, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09 had a centralized campaign in part. Political party budgets ranged from 16 to 111 million. The least invested in the SPD-SPO coalition and most of the hnutí ANO 2011.
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