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Transfer payments from government budget provided to cover a part of the expenditures of municipalities on public administration – case study (2010 – 2015)
Sluková, Petra ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Kučera, František (referee)
This thesis is focused on lower-level territorial self-governing units of the Czech Republic which take over a part of public administration of the state, therefore are entitled to receive transfer payments from government budget to cover part of related expenditures. The aim of this thesis is to assess effectiveness and transparency of the system of financing public administration executed by municipalities. The first chapter defines municipalities within the system of public administration and explains its function. The second chapter focuses more on the system of financing public administration executed by municipalities. Final part of the thesis deals with analysis of transfer payments from government budget provided to cover a part of the expenditures of municipalities on public administration (period 2010 to 2015). This analysis creates a basis for further assessment on the system of financing. The main methods used in this thesis are analysis and explanation.
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Reform of the State Administration in the Czech Republic: Case of the Civil Service Act
Kutálková, Lucie ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Kučera, František (referee)
The master´s thesis focuses on the reforming of the Czech civil service. The quality of the state administration is one of the most important political and economic topics. By passing the Civil Service Act the representatives aimed at depoliticization, stabilization and professionalization of the situation of civil servants. The main goal is to evaluate the law-making process of the Act and find out if the amendatory proposals and obstructions had the professional and apolitical state administration in view or aimed at lowering of the quality of this Act. Also, the objective is to assess, if the Act meets the requirements stated in the documents regarding the reforming of the Czech civil service. The master´s thesis is divided into four chapters. The first part of the thesis covers the state administration in theory. The second chapter contains a historical overview of the state administration in the territory of the Czech Republic from 1848 up to the present day. The third chapter presents the main documents regarding the reform and their key requirements. Furthermore, the law-making process is analysed and his crucial problems are identified. The final part concentrates on the Civil Service Act and evaluates it with reference to the main requirements stated within the reform.
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Personalization of Politics in the Czech Republic: Analysis of Manifestations of Personalization in the Electoral Process
Fričová, Magdaléna ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Kučera, František (referee)
The thesis deals with the subject of personalization of politics, the phenomenon that has recently become more and more topical. The process of personalization lies in reinforcement of focus on individual political actors at the expense of the collective ones. In the political system, we can observe personalization on three levels: in the institutional arrangement, in the way politics is perceived by citizens as well as its presentation by media. This process affects both the political parties (change in their organizational structure) and the political system in general (change in the character of mandate, the fragmentation of party system or the weakening of the control of individuals in power). The main topic of the thesis is personalization of politics in the frame of electoral systems through which the process can be encouraged or slowed down. On the background of theory of voting systems, the first part of the thesis analyses the development of Czech electoral system and chosen proposals of electoral reforms with focus on their impact on personalization of vote. The second part analyses outcome of parliamentary elections, namely the use and the impact of preferential voting. Last of all, fragmentation of the party system as a display of personalization is assessed, based on the Laakso-Taagepera index. Conclusions of the analysis confirm the personalization trend -- we can see an effort to personalize the vote from the part of political elites as well as the positive response to this trend from voters.
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Anti-corruption policies in the Czech Republic – Government's strategy in the fight against corruption between the years 2011 and 2012
Kala, Jiří ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Kučera, František (referee)
The purpose of the thesis is to evaluate the real impact of anti-corruption policies of the Czech Government. Therefore, the thesis firstly deals with the phenomenon of corruption and the fight against it in general. Subsequently, various anti-corruption strategies from 1999 to 2010 are introduced. Fundamental part of the thesis is devoted to an analysis of the Government's strategy in the fight against corruption between the years 2011 and 2012. Measures taken according to this strategy are examined in the light of the recommendations of NGOs that are engaged in the anti-corruption fight. The thesis sets out the strengths and the weaknesses of the strategy and points out the major flaws that need to be resolved as soon as possible. The third part suggests a solution to each of the problems that have emerged from the analysis. The proposals are mainly based on the recommendations of the anti-corruption organizations in the framework of the Reconstruction of the State and the Government's strategy in the fight against corruption between the years 2013 and 2014. Conclusion of the study shows to what extent is the current Czech government's anti-corruption policy successful.
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Does or did the long-term governmental concept for resolving the national minorities problem exist?
Kučera, František ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Smetanková, Daša (referee)
The thesis deals with the question of existence of long-term governmental integration concepts regarding national minorities and foreigners. The thesis analyses theoretical integration concepts, their types and their development. It describes national minorities living in the territory of the Czech Republic. It follows the creation and development of the governmental institutional structure for solving the issues of minorities and deals with the analysis of development of the legal framework and of governmental concepts regarding foreigners, national minorities and separately the Roma minority stressing concepts' quality and linkup. The goal of the thesis is to answer the question if the long-term concept regarding these issues exists, to what extent is the concept sophisticated, coherent and how continuously/discontinuously is the concept been promoted.
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Utilization potentialities of free software and open source software in business
Kučera, František ; Chlapek, Dušan (advisor) ; Chocholatý, Drahomír (referee)
The subject of this thesis is open source software and free software in term of utilization for business. The goal is to provide conditions and areas suitable for using of open source software and free software. The theoretical part gives basic terms, a list of organizations active in this area, classification of free software and a comparison of particular free software licenses. The practical part includes results of two inquiries of free software using: 1) personally made inquiry in Czech firms, 2) Internet inquiry of users. Further, a search of available free programmes has been made -- in term of utilization. The main benefit of the work is an evaluation of business opportunities for free software in particular utilization areas and determination of business models suitable for them. In the framework of this work, the author made an Internet portal on free software - to make the results of the work and external sources available to the public.
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Containment: a new strategy of the USA?
Kučera, František ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Andrýsová, Lenka (referee)
This thesis deals with the new foreign strategy of USA against the terrorism. The main question of the thesis is which concept the President of the USA Barack Obama is planning to apply as a framework for the foreign policy of the United States against the terrorism and towards the states which directly or indirectly support the terrorists or abide them in their territory. At first, previous traditions of the American foreign policy are mapped. Than follows the analysis of the concept of "containment" according to definition from the book "Containment" by Ian Shapiro. The third part analyzes contemporary foreign policy of the President of the USA Barack Obama and compares it with constituents of the concept by Ian Shapiro. The objective of this thesis is to find out whether the President uses the concept of "containment" in his policy against the terrorism.
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Získávání informací ze systémů na správu verzí
Kučera, František ; Pavlíček, Luboš (advisor) ; Matoušek, Petr (referee)
Tématem této bakalářské práce je získávání informací ze systémů pro správu verzí. Cílem práce je jednak rozbor současného stavu zahrnující popis několika vybraných existujících systémů a jednak vyvinutí aplikace SVN Statistika a nastínění jejího dalšího rozvoje. Tato aplikace slouží k vytváření výstupů z úložišť systému Subversion. Úvod práce se týká obecně systémů pro správu verzí, potom následuje kapitola o teoretické stránce získávání informací z těchto systémů a následuje praktický popis několika existujících aplikací (systémů) pro získávání informací. Po kapitole o Subversion následuje popis vyvinuté aplikace a ukázky výstupů.
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