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The platform of civic participation in Czech and Slovak Republic
Slováčková, Jasmin ; Říchová, Blanka (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
The bachelor thesis "The platform of civic participation in Czech and Slovak Republic" deals with the level of communication and participation among citizens and political parties, which is accessible to a wider range of the public. The work aims to compare the presence of two social democratic parties: the Czech Social Democrat Party (ČSSD) and the Slovak party Direction-Social Democracy (SMER-SD) on their websites from 2006 to the present time. First, the work focuses on the understanding of platforms of civic participation as a subject of political participation and examines the extent to which the parties try to activate their supporters. Furthermore, the concept of civic and political culture of Almond and Verba is analysed in a narrowly defined space within the civil society between political parties and the general population. The work reveals the tendency of parties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to create internet based platforms between parties and their supporters and tries to evaluate their effectiveness. The thesis maps the creation of its content in terms of participatory, communication and marketing tools and reveals the motivations, intentions and trends of the activities of ČSSD and SMER-SD online. The work reveals the level of involvement of supporters in the parties and...
Attitudes of Czech Public to Democratic Creed and Freedom
Klicperová-Baker, Martina ; Feierabend, I. K. ; Košťál, J.
The paper consists of two chapters. The first reviews social psychological predispositions for democracy (civic political culture, civic éthos and civic nationalism) and presents empirical results illustrating shared and distinct attitudes to democracy and freedom in four nations – Czech and Slovak Republics, Belarus and Bulgaria. Second part analyzes attitudes of Czech citizens to the life under totalitarian conditions and to the life in freedom (presents characteristics of respondents who oppose or welcome the political changes and analyzes what particular aspects of life are most upsetting for citizens in the current society and which made them most distressed in the past conditions of unfreedom. Comparison of present life with the life before 1989 is based on responses of a representative sample of the Czech Republic.

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