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EU and Czech Countermeasures Against Disinformation
Fišer, Jakub ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kadlecová, Lucie (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis deals with the development of countermeasures against disinformation in the Czech Republic and at the level of the European Union. Drawing upon the concept of Europeanisation, it aims to analyse the influence the two levels have on each other. Europeanisation has been widely used in the last two decades, and although it still lacks a universally valid definition, it is nowadays mainly regarded as a concept explaining the relationship between the European Union and its member states, considering it a process consisting of three interconnected dimensions: downloading (the influence of the EU on Member States), uploading (the influence of Member States on the EU), and cross-loading (the influence Member States have on each other). The chosen empirical case is rather atypical for research on Europeanisation, since most of it usually focuses on the adaptation of norms and institutions pre-existing at the European level. By doing so, this thesis aims to not only supplement the current research on Europeanisation but to problematise it as well. Taking the form of a comparative case study, the thesis focuses particularly on how the issue of disinformation found its way to the Czech and European political agenda. The main sources for the research are Czech and European policy documents dealing...
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