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Completion of the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant in the issue of Czech-Austrian relations
Homola, Filip ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kunštát, Miroslav (referee)
In its first part, the work introduces the reader to the beginnings of Austrian resistance to nuclear power. The decision to ban the use of nuclear power was taken by less than three dozen votes in a referendum in the late 1970s. In the second chapter, the thesis focuses on Czech- Austrian relations in the context of the Temelín nuclear power plant and provides an overview of how the issue has shaped the relationship, including analyses of Czech foreign policy by the Institute of International Relations. The thesis also examines the origins of the planned completion of Units 3 and 4 of the Temelín nuclear power plant. In the research part of the thesis, it uses discursive analysis to analyse selected parliamentary debates in which Austrian MPs talk about the Temelín nuclear power plant and its completion in their speeches. The thesis aimed to find out what discourse prevails in the Austrian parliamentary debates on the extension of JETE. The method in the research part was discourse analysis. The hypothesis of the thesis was that the discourse consists exclusively of critical and opposing views in parliamentary debates. This hypothesis was confirmed for all selected debates. Some debates contained reactions and suggestions from MPs above and beyond the level of critical attitudes expected in the...
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Does the Parliament Respect the Constitutional Court?
Staněk, Michal ; Syllová, Jindřiška (referee)
The key concern of the thesis is whether the Parliament has been respecting the Constitutional court. In order to answer this question, the theoretical part resolves the very existence of the Parliament's obligation to follow the Court and its decisions. The empirical part provides two points of view on the subject. First, the role of the Court and its decisions in parliamentary debates is being discussed. Second point analyses the reactions of the parliamentaries in response to Court's findings abolishing a law or its part during the VII. election period of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Parliament as theatre: development of theatrality in the House of Commons debates
Vozák, Jiří ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
The text describes the development of theatrality in parliamentary discourses in the House of Commons. It analyses functions of parliamentary debates, especially the communicative function of parliament. The theatrality of parliamentary discourse is composed of several elements. These are the architecture of the House, rules and customs of parliamentary debates and the parliamentary language itself. In the final part of the text I will compare theatrality of parliamentary debates from three different periods of the House of Commons history. While the initial period contains parliamentary debates from before the first radio broadcastings from the House, debates of the second period are already aired. The last period gathers three televised House of Commons debates. According to the texts principal hypothesis of the text, the theatrality of parliamentary discourses will rise with the media broadcasting. The final comparison shows differences among examined periods, however, the hypothesis was not entirely confirmed. Several aspects of detheatrility of parliamentary discourses also appears.
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