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The participation of women in high politics in selected countries of Latin America: current trends
Rada, Tomáš ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
The main theme of this bachelor thesis is political emancipation of women in Latin America. The first part presents the issue of women in politics, arguments in favor of and against more engagement of women. Generally analyzes two important factors that influence women's representation in parliament: the electoral system with its particular components and the gender quotas. The second part analyzes, based on the acquired knowledge, the contemporary situation in Latin America, specifically in three countries: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The ambition of this thesis is to identify contemporary trends that occur in these countries.
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Ten years of governance of Hugo Chavez
Galová, Veronika ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Nachtigallová, Mariana (referee)
The thesis describes the governance of Hugo Chavez in ten years period and compares it with the period which preceded his arrival. It focuses on institutional changes, changes in economic and social policy and foreign policy, particularly in the South American region itself. The thesis is describes process of consolidation of democracy in Venezuela since 1958, and changes that occured after the arrival of a man who was a few years ago a participant of attempts to topple the former government. The main subject of analysis of the thesis is the phenomenon of social and political polarization, the implementation of elements of participatory democracy and oil industry. The work points to changes from the neo-liberal state to the social state.
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Forms of organization, goals and influence of indigenous movements - cases of Bolivia and Ecuador
Kerclová, Helena ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Nachtigallová, Mariana (referee)
The main topics of this thesis are goals and influence of indigenous organizations in Latin America. The thesis describes foundation of indigenous organizations from unions and indigenous movements to foundation of indigenous political parties in Bolivia and Ecuador. The thesis focuses on causes of association indigenous people into organizations and their efforts to gain the possibility of political participation. Attention is also paid to ways of indigenous intervention into political events in both countries. The thesis also focuses on aims of organizations, which they proposed, and deals with their success. The main goal of this thesis is to find out why these indigenous organizations were founded and compare their power and impact on the political systems in Bolivia and Ecuador.
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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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American embargo against Cuba
Borovka, Michal ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Němec, Jan (referee)
I decided to concern about economic embargo in my bachelor works, because it seams that in the question of embargo, it will go to changing. I put myself four following questions in introduction: How embargo impacted on economical development of Cuba? How embargo impacted on Cuban relationship between USA and SSSR? Can we see different impact in different times of Castro's regime? In epilogue I will try to answer on the question how will be embargo in the future? For understanding economical embargo is necessary know the historical facts about relation between USA and Cuba. That is the reason why I concern about history of Cuba in the introduction. Than I analyze Cuban part of history which had happened before embargo. Bachelor works is divide into three parts: History of relationship between Cuba and USA, Cuban revolution and his development and Cuba from revolution till present.
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Financing of political parties in the Czech Republic
Novotný, Petr ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Němec, Jan (referee)
How can funding of political parties affect the outcome of elections? What impact has the legislation on financing political parties on political system? Is it possible that the government's political parties using this scheme remain in power? I will bring in this work the current theoretical background by leading experts on financing of political parties, as well as a separate chapter on giving patterns, showing signs of functionality and portability to other political systems. Finally, I will analyze trends of legislative funding of political parties in the Czech Republic, the current adjustment and its impact on the Czech political system. In all areas, I will try to identify the basic areas of problems and dilemmas. I will outline possible solutions where appropriate, to which I result of studying the theory, or of my own invention. In conclusion the objective of such analysis is to monitor and verify the following hypotheses. 1. Amendments to legislation are intended to enhance the transparency of the financing of political parties and to prevent corrupt behavior. 2. The funding of political parties tends to strengthen their cartelization, i.e. making access of political parties outside the establishment to high politics difficult. 3. The legislation meets the basic requirements placed on it, its implementation is feasible and its compliance is enforceable. The keywords are: the funding of political parties, (mainland) horizontal contribution, (Canadian) system of tax credits, (German) matching funds, contribution to the work, contribution to the electoral costs, contribution to the mandate, the Constitutional Court.
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Multinational Corporations and Political Activism: Case Study of "The Cochabamba Water Wars"
Virtová, Tereza ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Rohrbacher, Tomáš (referee)
Since the 15th century, Latin America has been strongly influenced by different cultural, economic and political external influences. This thesis focuses on the analysis of some of these effects -- especially on major theories of development. Neoliberalism, which brings phenomena such as globalization or the increasing influence of multinational corporations, will be analyzed in particular. Some of these effects will be presented on the case study of "The Cochabamba Water Wars". The main objective of this thesis is to identify the causes and effects of this specific conflict.
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Business Intelligence solution in ThyssenKrupp Výtahy, s.r.o.
Němec, Jan ; Novotný, Ota (advisor) ; Maryška, Miloš (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with strategic business management and its support with Business Intelligence tools. The objective of this thesis is to analyze specific company, design a model of metrics suitable for managing this company and implement Business Intelligence solution to monitor chosen metrics. The whole thesis is separated into two basic sections. First section focuses on theory, describes Balanced Scorecard methodology and principles of Business Intelligence tools. Both themes are contextualized in Corporate Performance Management. Second section deals with application of theoretical knowledge in practice - the environment of company. In relevant chapters is the company analyzed by Balanced Scorecard methodology; the second chapter deals with the Business Intelligence solution. The main contribution of this thesis is to demonstrate the utilization of Balanced Scorecard methodology and Business Intelligence technologies in managing a mid-sized company. The solution itself shows the management possibilities of these instruments on observed data and gives a notice to some phenomenons in the company.
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Authoritarianism in Latin America on example of Hugo Chávez
Procházka, Michal ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Němec, Jan (referee)
The main part of the thesis is analyzing the political system of Venezuelan government of Hugo Chávez and its classification between democratic, totalitarian political systems and authoritarianism. On the basis of an analysis of the changes in the country's political, economic and social structures between the years 1998 and 2009 and by using of an overview of the historical circumstances of the Latin American authoritarianism the thesis is trying to decide if the present Venezuelan political system could be classified as an authoritarianism or not. The thesis also includes the brief history of Latin America with accent on the time period of authoritarianism and the reasons for its numerous appearance, the rise of Hugo Chávez and the Venezuelan history before his election.
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Argentine - U.S. Bilateral Relations during military junta (1976 - 1983)
Žáčková, Michaela ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Němec, Jan (referee)
The topic of this diploma thesis is Argentine - U.S. bilateral relations during the rule of military junta in Argentina from 1976 to 1983. It deals with the most discussed topics such as human rights violations, grain embargo towards USSR, Falkland islands war, cooperation and competition in Central America, nuclear cooperation. It covers period from the fall of government of María Estela Isabel de Perón and the rise of military junta to the resignation of Leopoldo Galtieri and celebration of free elections in 1983 in Argentina. From the USA side it covers periods of the late Ford administration, entire Carter administration and first years of Reagan administration.
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