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The Transformation of the British Labour Party in years 1994-1997
Onesork, Jaroslav ; Lebeda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Polinec, Martin (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find the cause of success of the British Labour Party in general election in 1997. In addition to examining the assumptions for this victory the work also focuses on the search for the roots and the beginning of an ideological transformation "old" Labour Party into "new" called New Labour under Tony Blair in years 1994-1997. This paper applies case study metodology. In conclusion identifies the key moments of transformation and raises the question whether and to what extent this success can be generalized and applied to other social democratic parties.
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Political Parties in Great Britain with the Focus on Liberal Democrats
Kadlecová, Zuzana ; Stracený, Josef (advisor) ; Lánský, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the analysis of British party system and its special features, with the focus on the main political parties in Great Britain, their history, their development and the current position within the system. The thesis employs methods of analysis of specialized sources in the English language mainly. The aim of the first part is to provide theoretical knowledge to establish background for better understanding the rest of the thesis. The following part of the thesis deals with the main political parties in Great Britain, their development, programs and their current position in the system. The most important part of the thesis is the last one, which focuses on Liberal Democratic Party, its beginnings, development and puts emphasis on the two last elections in 2010 and 2015. There is an attempt to provide an opinion on what were the reasons of the election results depending on election program, electorate and other specifications.
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Festival of Britain and Its Reflection in the British Society (1951)
Novohradská, Ivona ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis deals with British internal and external political developments after the Second World War which resulted in organizing the Festival of Britain in 1951. The Festival was aimed to be a distraction for the British public and a remainder of the great history and cultural heritage of the United Kingdom and the British Empire. This thesis is divided into three chapters. The first one deals with the post-war development in the world, its reorganization into the Cold War, and the process of decolonization. The second chapter is focused on domestic political reforms, especially social reforms, of the Labour Party between 1945 and 1951. The third chapter describes and analyses the Festival of Britain of 1951. Keywords: Great Britain, welfare state, Festival of Britain, 1951, South Bank, Clement Attlee, London, Labour Party
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British Labour Party's Ideological Shift between 2010 and 2015
Kubeš, Filip ; Rovná, Lenka (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The goal of this dissertation is to find out how the ideological position of the British Labour party has changed between 2010 and 2015. This is achieved by content analysis of electoral manifestos for the House of Commons elections of 2010 and 2015. The results are achieved via the MARPOR RILE method. The result of this research serves to verify a theory created by Danish authors Martin Bækgaard and Carsten Jensen who claim that in political systems dominated by two large parties, these big parties react to electoral losses by moving the party from the median voter position towards their party base. This paper implies that the Labour Party has moved to the left on the left-right axis between 2010 and 2015 which means it has moved towards its party base. This means the aforementioned theory has been strengthened. Apart from the empirical result, this work also provides an overview of the party's policies in both points in time. These policies are divided into individual thematic categories.
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The Analysis of British Parliamentary Debate in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict between 2010 and 2015: The Comparison of Political Parties' Stances towards the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Sýkora, Marek ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
Bachelor thesis The Analysis of British Parliamentary Debate in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict between 2010 and 2015: The Comparison of Political Parties' Stances towards the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict deals with the stances of major British political parties, the Conservative Party, the Labour Party and to lesser extent also the Liberal Democrats, towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The thesis at first thoroughly examines through an analysis of parliamentary debates in 2010-2015 the stances of concerned political parties towards three important aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - the issue of recognition of Palestinian state on bilateral level, the issue of enhanced status of Palestine in the United Nations and the issue of some form of economic sanctions against the Israel or against the Jewish settlement in the West Bank. In subsequent comparison main dissimilarities and similarities are identified in stances of concerned political parties. In the end the thesis answers the question, whether the stances of political parties in question towards Israeli- Palestinian conflict falls within the confines of traditional bipartisan consensus in the foreign policy between the Labour Party and the Conservative party or not.
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Political Debate about the Issue of Free Movement of People in the United Kingdom between the Years 2010 and 2016
Janáková, Šárka ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
This Bachelor thesis is concerning with the evolution of stances of four main British political parties, namely the Conservative Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, and the United Kingdom Independence Party, towards the issue of free movement of people between the years 2010 and 2016. The thesis aims to analyse on the basis of chosen documents, mainly manifestos or speeches of the parties' leaders, how and why did the stance of each political party towards the freedom of movement changed over the chosen period and how the stances differed among the parties. Mostly two documents are analysed for every chosen milestone of the time period between the years 2010 and 2016. These milestones are general elections in the years 2010 and 2015, the end of the transitional period for Bulgaria and Romania at the turn of the year 2014 and the European Parliament elections in the year 2014. For showing a possible shift in the stances of individual parties towards the issue of free movement of people are their statements characterised on a six-level scale negative to positive, whereas the sixth level means the issue was not mentioned in the statement. Apart from that also the level of prominence of the issue of freedom of movement is characterised at each milestone, showing how important a role this issue...
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Comparison of referendums on devolution in Wales
Špelinová, Kristýna ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Miklošová, Kateřina (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Comparison of Referendums on Devolution in Wales" deals with the process of political devolution in Great Britain, or rather in Wales with emphasis on two referendums on this question, which took place in 1979 and 1997. The main topic of this work is an establishing of a relationship between central British and regional Welsh government that culminated in the origin of National Assembly for Wales in 1998. In the first referendum Welsh people expressed a negative attitude to devolution and in the second one they changed their mind about it and voted for devolution. The main goal of this work is to explain basic facts that caused the difference between the results of referendums. This comparative work determines criteria and through the analysis of them it gains characteristics of both referendums in which people voted on founding of the National Assembly for Wales. In its major part, the work deals with the comparison of referendums on the basis of their descriptions. The attention is put also on the development of political situation in Wales, which preceded declaration of the first referendum. The political conditions in the time between referendums are described too. In the conclusion of the work, the influence of political circumstances on the change in attitudes of Welsh...
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The evolution of Labour Party's position on Brexit
Březina, Ondřej ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Kłusek, Johana (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the attitude of the British opposition Labour Party towards Brexit. The thesis explores the development of this attitude since the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum until the 2019 United Kingdom general election and focuses on the reasons for Labour Party's ambivalent stance towards this issue. The main subject of this thesis is the influence of the division of the Labour Party's electorate and the British one-round plurality electoral system on this attitude. The first part of the thesis deals with electoral systems and their influence on party systems and political parties. The second part examines the historical development of Labour Party's stance towards European integration. The goal of this part is to show that the Labour Party had always had an ambivalent and changing view on European integration and that its disunity on this issue is not a new phenomenon. The third part examines the development of Labour Party's position after the 2016 referendum and shows, how the view of the party changed, how the party tried to deal with this issue and what conflicts the party members experienced. The last chapter deals with the reasons for actions of Labour Party MPs that voted contradictory to the official party line. The first part of this...
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Harold Wilson and the change in the attitude towards the EEC between the years 1964-1967
Pažitný, Tomáš ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Pečenka, Marek (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Harold Wilson and the change in the attitude towards the EEC between the years 1964-1967", examines the role and motivation of British prime minister in the fundamental transformation of the foreign policy of the United Kingdom. Compared to the original stance of Harold Wilson in 1964, when he became a prime minister, he shifted his country towards the European Economic Community unprecedented, during his premiership. The bachelor thesis examines importance of various factors in the decision-making process of Harold Wilson, using the interpretative research method. In the main part, this paper chronologically proceeds through domestic political and economic factors, which occurred between the years 1964-1967. Political factors are the turbulent atmosphere in the Labour party and in the Cabinet and economic factors are bad position of sterling and problem with the balance of payments. External factors, such as deterioration of relationships in the Commonwealth, changes in foreign trade and the question of British military commitments in the world, complete these domestic issues. At the end of the thesis, the paper analyzes the decisions made by Harold Wilson in the period of 1964-1967 and assesses their impact on the transformation of the British policy towards the European...
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