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The Stability of Coalition Governments: Regional versus British-wide Political Party Preferences
Nezdarová, Bára ; Reschová, Jana (advisor) ; Kuta, Martin (referee)
The thesis focuses on the Labour-led coalition governments in Scotland and Wales. The Scottish and Welsh branches of the Labour Party enjoy a great deal of autonomy to to formulate their own policies, to negotiate coalition arrangements and to make strategic choices responding to the electoral challenges in those regions. The Scottish and Welsh Labour Parties have not been obliged to follow the British-wide New Labour policy preferences in the devolved bodies, even though the Scottish Labourites often did so. In Wales, a more distinctive approach has been adopted. However, both Scottish and Welsh Labour Parties have been willing to compromise and to make significant concessions to their coalition partners. The different approaches to tuition fees in Westminster, Scotland and Wales presented in the last chapter were also the case. Therefore, the thesis concludes that the stability of the analyzed regional coalition governments was not threatened by British-wide policy preferences of the Labour Party.
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Direct Election of the President in Czech Republic
Špačková, Veronika ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Kuta, Martin (referee)
Next year, the citizens of the Czech Republic will choose a new president in direct election. The subject of this thesis is to analyze and evaluate all submitted proposals for changes to the presidential election and attitudes of stakeholders (parties, experts, voters). It tries to answer the question whether the introduction of direct elections may change the political system. Apart of this the bachelor thesis also focuses on political system and its classification and the position of president in the executive.
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The Liberal Democrats in coalition government in Great Britain: analysis of their actual functioning
Ohnišťová, Markéta ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Kuta, Martin (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the influence and functioning of the Liberal Democrats in the current coalition government in Great Britain, constituted on the basis of the results of the parliamentary elections in 2010. The theoretical part discusses the characteristics, function and evolution of the party system as part of the British political system. By comparing electoral programs of both parties the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives the thesis analyzes which program priorities each party prevailed in the coalition agreement, and vice versa which subsided. To build a comprehensive analysis of the effects of the Liberal Democrats in the government thesis also uses result of geeral polls. In conclusion, the work finds out that the Liberal Democrat party has made some successes in promoting their interests, but also that in most of its priorities and principles gave way to a stronger conservative partners.
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The political marketing of the political party TOP 09 before the election in 2010
Vávrová, Barbora ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Kuta, Martin (referee)
The Bachelor thesis "The political marketing of the political party TOP 09 before the election in 2010" deals with the analysis of use of the marketing instruments and their application in the election campaign of the TOP 09. The first theoretical part of thesis describes the political marketing and deals with theory of the election campaigns and the political parties from the marketing point of view. The second part represents the political party TOP 09, its origin and the main leaders. The practical part describes the political marketing of the TOP 09 and its election campaign. The end of the thesis analyzes and evaluates the political marketing of the TOP 09 and its share of the success in the elections in 2010.
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Consociationalism in practice: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Fialová, Tereza ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Kuta, Martin (referee)
The model of a consociational democracy, which has been imposed on Bosnia and Herzegovina, has not started working -- not even after 16 years of being applied -- the way it ought to. After the last parliamentary elections, that were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 2010, the effort to assemble the government lasted for 16 months. Moreover, the Serbians, since contracting the Dayton Agreement, which was in fact proposed by the international community, have had rather separatist tendencies. The Croats are not satisfied with the current form of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they have to live along with the Bosnians. They demand a creation of the third entity within the regions occupied mostly by their nation. The Bosnians, however, want the country to head towards a unitary state instead. These are not the only conflicts and issues impeding the effective function of the political system. This thesis primarily concentrates on analyzing the causes which constrain from a successful functioning of a consociational democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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The fight against corruption in the Czech republic - the problem of public procurement
Hlávková, Lenka ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Kuta, Martin (referee)
In the Czech Republic, public procurement and the misuse thereof has been a topical issue for the last few years, both in theory and in practice. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to highlight the necessity of transparent public procurement, of adopting the relevant amendment to the law and of further anti-corruption measures, by providing a definition of terms associated with public procurement as well as an outline of the problems of its misuse, which are applied to an example of public procurement misuse in practice. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter aims to define the basic terms associated with public procurement and to delineate the process thereof. The second chapter deals theoretically with the issue of possible public procurement misuse and the associated corruption practices. In the third chapter, an example of public procurement misuse is analysed in the case of the Znojmo council corruption practices from 2009. In the fourth chapter, the amendment to the public procurement law is addressed.
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Solution of the conflict between the representatives of executive power in a semi-presidential system: the case of Finland
Havlenová, Jitka ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Kuta, Martin (referee)
The thesis deals with the transfer of powers within the executive of the Finnish president to the Prime Minister. Its aim is to analyze the gradual change in distribution of powers which at the same time entails the transition from the semi-presidential system to parliamentarism. It also aims to find out what were the causes of these changes. The thesis should confirm that Finland can already be considered a pure parliamentary system. It focuses on the practical performance of foreign policy which is often a subject of disputes between the representatives of the executive. The aim is to find out whether the Finnish policy implemented within the European Union is at the level of domestic or foreign policy. The first part is devoted to the very concept of the semi-presidential system, its origin and different theoretical views of political scientists who have dealt with this issue. The following part deals with the characteristics of semi-presidential system in Finland and describes the process of changing the role of the president. The last chapter analyzes the constitutional amendments and the new constitution. It compares the powers assigned to the head of the state and to the Prime Minister according to the old constitution and the new one.
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Dissent in Parliamentary Majority: Legislative Activities of the Chamber of Deputies Parliament of the Czech Republic 1996-2010
Kuta, Martin ; Reschová, Jana (advisor) ; Němec, Jan (referee)
Parliamentary system of government demands parliamentary competent parties. Dissension within parties can block the entire political system; the government cannot rely on its majority and fails in processing its proposals on the agenda of the parliament. From the analytical perspective, inquiry in dissension in the parliamentary majority is one of basic questions. The thesis deals with dissension at the theoretical level. Using the Czech Chamber of Deputies as an example, the thesis conceptualizes forms of dissension (a disapproval of a governmental proposal at the first reading as the absolute dissent). The thesis conducts voting unity tests of Czech political parties that forge government. According to the empirical inquiry, the dissension that leads to the disapproval of governmental proposals stems from the dissent within the political parties, not from the dissent among parties.
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Popular vote in parliamentary systems: causes and effects of the implementation in selected European countries
Kuta, Martin ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (referee)
Popular vote of a president is a necessary condition of a presidential system. This thesis focuses on the popular vote of a president in parliamentary systems where the president is merely a formal head of state with limited powers. The case studies -- Finland and Slovakia -- will provide with possible causes and effects of an implementation of the popular vote in the political systems and their subsequent changes. Intra-executive conflicts as consequences of the split-up of powers between the president and the government will be studied. The main question of the thesis is if the implementation of the popular vote may change the type of the political system.
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