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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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The Reform of Intermunicipal Cooperation: A transition to the French model?
Mudra, Jan ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
Presented dissertation on topic Reform of inter-municipal cooperation: Course to French model? deals with the question, to what extent, does, so far, the most elaborated motion to amendment of the form of inter-municipal cooperation, proposed by Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, follows the model of inter-municipal cooperation in France. From this point of view, the topic of inter-municipal cooperation in the Czech Republic is, as a matter of fact, unexplored phenomenon without existing research and comparative analysis. The objective of the research in my dissertation is to prove, according to definitional standards determined in advance, what particular adjustment in the field of financial, structural and legislative inter-municipal cooperation in France has this motion adopted and, on the contrary, what adjustment it has not and why. The research does not deal with all of the elaborated motions to constituent amendment of the current form of inter-municipal cooperation, but, in particular, with the motion to amendment of the general conception of inter-municipal cooperation in the Czech Republic.
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Political Participation of the Romani Minority in the city Ceske Budejovice
Větrovec, Lukáš ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Jüptner, Petr (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the political participation of the Romani minority in České Budějovice. The theoretical part introduces the reader to the problems that most affect the life of the minority of Romani people and also influence their political activity. The author presents the most successful, yet extinct political party, the Romani people Citizens Initiative, and is also concerned with the current Romani people political scene, which evaluates the functioning of its two actors, the Romani Democratic Party and the Party of Equal Opportunities. The analytical part is focused on the specific locality of České Budějovice. It tries to find the causes of the weak political participation of local Romani people and to find a suitable procedure to make easily their way local politics. Based on the research, the semi-structured interview with the Romani people respondents and the municipal politician of České Budějovice, the work came to the conclusion that political candidates of the Romani people lack support from their own community and that the majority political parties did not create adequate conditions for their desired success.
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Intraparty Democracy of the Czech Greens
Gavriněv, Vojtěch ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Jüptner, Petr (referee)
This thesis examines the level of intra-party democracy within the Czech Greens. Using two separate content analyses (a quantitative analysis of the party statutes and a qualitative analysis of several interviews with active party members) the three main criteria of intra-party democracy are measured - inclusiveness, decentralisation and institutionalisation. Following the results of the two said analyses that both prove and amend each other it is stated that the level of intra-party democracy within the Czech Greens is currently considerably high. The two analyses also revealed persisting gaps and possible threats to intra-party democracy within the Czech Greens. Because of the lack of a comparable research on this topic in Czech political environment the results are collated to those of some other Central-European countries and simultaneously stated as normative. The method used is also suggested to inspire further research to be made on the level of intra-party democracy of any other Czech political party.
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Hidden Parties in the Czech Local Politics
Brýdl, Matěj ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
This thesis describes the parties, which stand for the local elections under another name, then is an actual name of the political party. However, there is not definition yet, in the Czech Republic this topic is not even included in a literature. Those parties, which can be called as hidden parties, do not appear only in the Czech Republic, but they can be found in other countries as well. This thesis describes the problematic of the hidden parties also in England, Belgium, Estonia, Croatia, and Poland. The main part of this thesis is devoted to the hidden parties in the Czech local elections. Beside the definition of what parties can be considered as hidden parties, this thesis includes comparison with other forms of candidacy and the development of frequency of these parties in individual years. There are also compared two forms of candidacy, which under certain circumstances can be considered as hidden parties. The biggest part of this thesis is devoted to the success of these parties and to which parties most often hide their names. Several specific hidden parties are then further analyzed to determine the historical development of parties in a particular city and the degree of connection of candidates and the political party.
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Participation of Vietnamese National Minority in Czech Local Politics
Vitovská, Hana ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the participation of the Vietnamese national minority in the Czech Republic, especially at the level of local politics. The main objective of the thesis is to analyze and critically reflect on the motivations, attitudes, and views of the Vietnamese national minority on political and civic participation with an emphasis the local politics. At the same time, the work explores the forms of participation of the Vietnamese community and the factors that influence them. Because the target group of this work is a Vietnamese national minority, the national minority policy is first analyzed at the international level, followed by analysis at the national level. The reason for this approach is that the international environment plays a vital role in examining national minority politics and ethnic minorities. Selected instruments and institutions of national minority politics in the Czech environment are then further analyzed and compared with the German counterpart where minorities, and in particular the Vietnamese minority, have long been a significant part of society. The research part of the thesis is designed as qualitative research, using document analysis and semi- structured interviews as data acquisition techniques. This is a key part of the whole work where the...
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The Former Military District Libavá: the Establishment of the New Municipal Political System
Václavíková, Michaela ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Čopík, Jan (referee)
This thesis focuses on optimization of military estates in the Czech Republic that is connected both to establishment of new municipalities and transition from military administration to local administration. The thesis tries to describe the process itself being finished by setting settlement units aside from military estates, reduction of their borders and dissolution of the Brdy military estate. A case study of the Libavá Town is also a part of the thesis. The study is trying to monitor the impact of the transition mentioned above on civil population and on the newly established local administration. Three methods were used to collect the data - namely half structured interviews with chief participants, a survey amongst Libavá inhabitants and media monitoring. A part of the theoretical part is also an analysis of military estates in Europe whose characteristics and differences are also presented.
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Nonpluralistic Political Systems: the Case of Czech Municipalities
Hofman, Štěpán ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Bubeníček, Václav (referee)
This thesis Nonpluralistic political systems: the case of czech municipalities target problematic and occurrence of nonpluralistic political systems. Nonpluralistic political systems is little researched phenomenon and It cannot be reflected by any researche focusing mainly on this issue. Autors focusing on local politic in western systems don't deal with given problematic. My research in this work focuses on proving existence and relevance of nonpluralistic political systems on a case of czech municipalities. Research is not done on the whole Czech Republic, but only on sample of five czech districts, choosen according to municipal structure, demographic characteristic and socio-economic characteristic. Second part of my research focuses on analysis of participants of those systems, on nature of their candidacy and also on the fact, if participants of pluralistic and nonpluralistic systems are any different.
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