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Politicization of the European Union in Czech media
Lukáš, Filip ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Földes, Kristián (referee)
This master thesis is focused on understanding the process of politicization of the European Union in Czech media between the years 2003 and 2017. The theoretical framework used to observe the politicization process is based on postfunctionalist theory of European integration which assumes that the governance of the European Union has been become publicly contested, i.e., politicized, which consequently constrained the process of European integration. To analyze the process two politicization indices that considered the visibility, i.e., salience, of the European Union and the divergence of opinions i.e., polarization, were created. The source of data were annual Eurobarometer surveys and 6750 articles from three Czech quality newspapers. The hypothesized drivers of politicization assumed increases of politicization during authority transfer moments such as Czech Republic joining the EU in 2004 or Lisbon treaty adoption in 2009; and during crisis events such as was the Eurozone crisis and refugee crisis. The results revealed that the overall level of politicization was low, and it was only during the hypothesized events of Czech-EU admission, Lisbon treaty and refugee crisis that the politicization level increased significantly.
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Attitudes of states towards the WHO
Lukáš, Filip ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis tries to provide an outlook on the attitudes of states towards the World Health Organizations (WHO). These attitudes were assessed by using the data acquired through content analysis of statements delivered at the meetings of the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board of the WHO. The data were afterwards statistically analyzed. This work's core hypothesis claimed that the attitude of a state is determined by its position in terms of being a donor or an acceptor of the WHO aid combined with its global status, meaning whether the country is an established or a rising power. Contrary to the expectations the results were statistically insignificant, meaning that the attitudes are based on more complex factors than just the economic and power status. Another intriguing discovery is that there might be a consensus over the reform draft proposals within the WHO. Furthermore, even the rising powers themselves are part of this consensus. These two findings are interesting mainly from the point of view of the literature based around the rising powers. The anticipation was that rising powers should be antagonistic towards the established powers. The results of this work, however, suggest that there are no power struggles between those two groups within the domain of the WHO. The...
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