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Georgian case of Neoliberal transition and its socio-economic dimensions 2003-2012
Tchipashvili, Nata ; Ditrych, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kazharski, Aliaksei (referee)
The first wave of post-communist transformation which resulted in a prolonged socio-economic crisis created preconditions for the political changes of 2003. After the Rose Revolution new government under the leadership of President Saakashvili initiated radical changes to the severe social, economic and institutional problems accumulated in Georgia. The neoliberal premises of the political elite was based on the theoretical assumption that radical market liberalization, deregulation, and privatization would lead to sustainable economic growth. The concept of economic development based on governmental theoretical assumptions entailed not only a purely macroeconomic phenomenon of economic growth, but it was essentially incorporating social dimensions with a strong emphasis on poverty reduction, job creation, and equitable growth. this paper seeks to investigate how the Georgian case of Neoliberal transition manifested itself from 2003-2012. more precisely, it aims to explain How Neoliberal theoretical premises deviated from the materialized outcomes? And how were the neoliberal reforms legitimized within the system by the political elite? For the purposes of the research, I employed qualitative research methods: The single case study, critical discourse analysis, and in-depth expert interviews....
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The EU Policy to Fight Public Sector Corruption in the Member and in the Candidate States: an Instrument to Reduce Corruption or a Cause of a Paradoxical Membership Effect?
Svobodová, Dora ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Potůček, Martin (referee)
The tiploma thesis "The EU policy to fight public sector corruption in the member and in the candidate states: an instrument to reduce corruption or a cause of a paradoxical membership effect?" deals with the conception, the development and the current state of the EU anticorruption policy in the member and in the candidate states. It provides an introduction into the issue of corruption and its control, with a particular emphasis on the corruption in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The thesis explains the interest of the EU in this phenomenon and provides an overview of the EU instruments to fight corruption in the member and in the candidate states. At the same time, it compares the effectiveness of the two dimensions of the EU anticorruption policy. Exemplified by the case of the post-communist states that entered the EU in 2004, the thesis analyzes whether the EU accession is connected with weakening of obligations that arise from this policy. Due to possible negative consequences of such a paradoxical membership effect, the thesis searches for possibilities how to reduce it and how to prevent it in the future. The thesis also provides for a brief case study on corruption and anticorruption in the Czech Republic from the application for the EU membership until now.
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Comparison of National Endowment for Democracy projects in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the 1990s and their role in local developments
Vodáková, Tereza ; Hornát, Jan (advisor) ; Raška, Francis (referee)
This bachelor thesis addresses grant projects funded by the American nongovernmental organisation National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Despite being one country at the beginning of the 1990s, by the half of the decade, both countries already followed different directions. The aim of this thesis is to compare diverse strategies of NED in those countries during the 1990s and to analyse its impact on the development of democracy and civil society. The research method of this thesis is built on a categorisation of individual grant projects based on the information from NED annual reports and their consecutive confrontation with the development of related events. For the confrontation, this thesis uses primarily secondary literature, media outputs, available interviews, and information from the grant recipients. This comparison implies, that while Czechia stopped being funded by NED by the mid-1990s, Slovakia became one of its most significant priorities in the region. Slovakia is a prime example of functional democracy promotion abroad. In only a few years, NED accomplished to help the mobilisation of civil society and successful transition to liberal democracy. The Czech example, on the other hand, shows how unevenly distributed grants in its favour led to abrupt...
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