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František Soukup and Social Democracy before I. World War
Havlíčková, Lidmila ; Velek, Luboš (advisor) ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (referee)
ANOTATION The thesis focused on František Soukup (1871-1940) and political party Czechoslavic Social Democratic Party, because he was the member of this party since 1896. Text describes his life before World War I. The work combines biography of František Soukup and development of the workers and social democratic movement in the context of political modernization - first at the example of party's newspaper, in which Soukup works. In the centre, there is a main theme of the party before World War I - the universal suffrage. Conclusion presents Soukup's activities after the legalization of this requirement, i.e. his work and speeches in House of Deputies, which are placed in contrast with his activities in the Socialist International. The aim of the thesis is write the biography of an important representative of the party and on this basis - analyze political discourse of social democracy at the end of the century. KEY WORDS: political parties, social democracy, František Soukup
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Gunther Grass - Literature politics
Králová, Marie ; Kubíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
The thesis deals with the novel Peeling the onion written by a German author Günter Grass and with responses to this novel. Controversial moments of Grass's life which were never reported before are revealed in this autobiographical literary work. It has evoked very contradictory reactions worldwide. The object of the thesis is to compare the events of approximately twenty years of Grass's life from both the past and current perspective and also to monitor the impact of the life stories on the creation of this author. Great attention is paid to the acceptance of the work by the public and by critics.
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Analysis of czechoslovak social democracy in years 1916-1921
Henzl, Lukáš ; Novák, Miroslav (advisor) ; Gelnarová, Jitka (referee)
This work offers an analysis of social democracy in the Czech lands in 1916 - 1921. The aim is to describe the process and the causes of the collapse of the ČSDSD. This gave rise to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The study seeks to answer the question of why the Communist coup in ČSDSD failed. The introductory part deals with the historical development of the party against the background of national and world events. The main accent is set on the analysis of the two wings within the party: the left (revolutionary) and the right (reform). These wings are examined from the perspective of Giovanni Sartori and the sociologists of policy of the time, Johh Mertl and Robert Michels. This is complemented by the inclusion of the party into cleavages by Stein Rokkan and Seymour M. Lipset. The study also contains information about developments in the number of party members between 1913 and 1924, reflecting the decline in the war years and especially after the collapse of the party. The following chapter is dedicated to the strength of social democracy in the legislatures in comparison with the other Czech, respectively Czechoslovak parties. It shows the position of social democracy within the party system and its real influence on the direction the Czech and, later, Czechoslovak nation took. The text is...
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Party SMER-SD and its Position in the Slovak Party System
Beneš, Michal ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to place Slovak political party SMER in the political and party system of the Slovak Republic and attempt to analyse ideological and programmatic development of this party. The author devotes attention to development of SMER from the emergence in 1999 until last general elections in 2012. First chapter seeks to describe evolution of socialism and following ideologies including the concept of the Third way which was reflected by some Western European social democratic parties. The second chapter is dedicated to left-wing political parties in Czechoslovakia and lately in Slovak Republic. This chapter is divided into two sections. The first section is about parties existing before 1989 and the second one devotes attention to parties after Velvet Revolution in 1989. Next part of this work is focused on the SMER itself. Author describes three phases of development of this party including emergence in 1999, opposition activities between 2002 and 2006 and phase of hegemony following after 2006. The purpose of the last part of the thesis is to analyse ideological and programmatic development of SMER and highlight some problematic features of proclaimed social democratic orientation.
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Division in the social-democratic movement in Austria-Hungary in the 80s in the 19th century
Jůza, Robert ; Doubek, Vratislav (advisor) ; Polášek, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the division in the social-democratic movement in Austria- Hungary in the '80s of the 19th century. The programmatic documents of the party are analyzed from the point of view of controversial points of the division. The workers movement was split into groups of moderates and radicals. These groups polemized about tactics, which would lead to the achievement of goals of proletariat. The goals were the same for both groups, change to classless society and collectivization of production. There are programmatic documents putting an end to the division examined as well. First of they are all looked into from the points of view, whether they are closer connected with perspectives of moderates or radicals.
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Performance of the mandate of a Social Democratic Party Member of the European Parliament
Gubáš, Robert ; Reschová, Jana (advisor) ; Bič, Josef (referee)
The Social Democratic MEP mandate performance has certain specific features which distinguish it from mandates of members of other EP fractions. The theoretical part of this thesis focuses on the historical context of European Social Democracy and challenges which it must currently face (euroscepticism, consequences of economic crisis etc.). Furthermore, it considers the role of the Party of European Socialists the whole process. The practical part of this thesis consists of guided interviews with EP Members for ČSSD and SMER - sociálna democracia. The aim of this thesis is to assess the degree of European Social Democracy's Europeanization and differences in national and European aspects of the character of Social Democratic MEP mandate.
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The Comparison of the European elections in 2004 and 2009 with the case study of Slovakia
Böhmová, Dorota ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Smetanková, Daša (referee)
The thesis deals with the Euroepan elections in 2004 and 2009 where the emphasise is placed on Slovakia, as a new member country. The resource for the inquiry into the election results was the second order election model which was forumulated after the first direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979. The other tack of the thesis is current situation of parties representing the social democracy and the crisis of the social democracy in general which took effect in the European elections in 2009. In Slovakia, this overflow of the social democracy represented by the governing party SMER -- SD did not occur, thereby one of the basic rules of the second order elections was not approved. The thesis therefore resolves the question if this model is fully applicable to Slovakia, as a representative of the so -- called Eastern enlargement.
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Political Orientation of Czech Citizens - September 2011
Červenka, Jan
The September survey of CVVM contained several questions aimed at the general political orientation of the citizens. 22% of Czechs feel to be close to social democracy, 14% prefer liberal and 12% conservative ideology. These were followed by ecological approach to politics (6%), and communist (6%), Christian-democratic (6%), and socialist (5 %) ideologies.
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