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The Rise of Populism in the Countries of Southern Europe after the Economic Crisis of 2008
Faltis, Tadeáš ; Lánský, Ondřej (advisor) ; Prokschová, Daniela (referee)
This work explores the relationship between the economic crisis of 2008 and the rise of populism in Southern European countries. The study employs a method of literature review, analysis of sociological data on the impact of the economic crisis, and an examination of successful populist parties in selected Southern European states. In the first part of the work, populism and economic crisis are defined, followed by an exploration of the relationship between these two concepts and possible methods for dating the rise of populism. The subsequent section characterizes the Southern European region and specific selected countries, namely Greece, Spain, and Italy. The focus is primarily on their structural problems that may be linked to the growth of populism. In the main part of the work, the impacts of the economic crisis on the selected states are analyzed, initially from an economic and social perspective and subsequently from a political standpoint. The concluding section of the work zooms in on the rise of populism in the selected states. Using the examples of the three most successful populist parties - Greek SYRIZA, Spanish Podemos, and the Italian Five Star Movement - the study seeks common denominators for their ascent. In conclusion, the work identifies historical structural problems, the...
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Transformation of Socialist Parties in Spain and Portugal in the Shadow of the Economic Crisis
Bányácská, Kristýna ; Guasti, Petra (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the transformation of socialist parties in Western Europe - Spain and Portugal. This thesis aims to analyze the electoral programs of socialist parties in the shadow of an economic crisis. This diploma thesis aimed to discover how the socialist parties in Spain and Portugal transformed and how. The greatest attention focuses on the internal part of the transformation of socialist parties. This thesis used qualitative content analysis and manual coding on programs. The results of this interpretative content analysis show, that the parties mostly deal in their programs with economic issues and much less with identity politics, which tested the theory of Berman and Snegovaya (2019), which claims that, if a left-wing party deals with more economic issues in its program, it has a better chance at succeeding in a given political system. The Portuguese Socialist Party and the Spanish Socialist Party are currently relevant political forces within the political system and both managed to be part of the governments as well. They both also have managed to overcome the entry of a higher number of new populist parties. The result of this work is, therefore, the analysis and subsequent comparison of the election programs of both socialist parties, a deeper understanding of their...
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Demografický vývoj vybraných zemí jižní Evropy
Dundálková, Zuzana
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to show the demographic development of selected countries in Southern Europe (Italy, Portugal, Greece and Spain) in the period of 1995 - 2011. The thesis is composed from two parts: theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part, contains explanation and description of demographic indicators and also demography in its general use. The practical part, contains the demographic indicators after thorough examination, presented and evaluated for every subjected country. In detail, specific indicators were used such as: birth rate, fertility, abortion, mortality, migration, marriage and divorce rates.
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Mortality in countries of Eastern and Southern Europe: trends and patterns
Šplíchal, Matěj ; Rychtaříková, Jitka (advisor) ; Dzúrová, Dagmar (referee)
Mortality in countries of Eastern and Southern Europe: trends and patterns Abstract The purpose of this thesis to is to evaluate any variances and commonality in the trends of mortality rates between southern and eastern Europe for the period beginning at the end of World War II (WWII) to present day. In order that the data used in the analysis of the populations of these two European regions is drawn from broad-based yet controlled demographic parameters, two countries from each region have been targeted. From southern Europe, Italy and Portugal, and from Eastern Europe Hungary and Bulgaria. The thesis will present both the analysis of data that relates to the development of the gross mortality rate together with that of more refined data that calculates the standardised mortality rate. A more in-depth analysis of mortality trends based on mortality tables and decomposition methods will also be presented using indicators of life expectancy at birth, infant mortality and life span, together with methods of decomposition of the difference between two demographic indicators (Kitagawy, R. Pressata, E. Arriagy and V. M. Shkolnikova). The conclusion of the analytical section deals with age variability at death. The hypotheses, set out in the introductory chapter, are evaluated at the end of the paper, based on...
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Územní polarita socioekonomické diferenciace Španělska
RAUSCHER, Tomáš
This bachelor thesis deals with the territorial polarity of the socioeconomic differentiation of Spain, which is observed based on indicators divided into three groups: economic, social and political-cultural. The main goal of the thesis is to carry out the synthesis of the socioeconomic polarity by creating two poles of different development level, the core and the semi-periphery. The description of the disparities' main determinants and the specifics of the Spanish space's polarization are included in the synthesis. In the analytical part, the thesis is complemented with the map outputs of individual indicators, while the final synthesis' maps portray the said territorial polarity dividing Spain into the developed and the lagging part.
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Invasive diseases of pines in South Europe
Buchtová, Barbora
This thesis deals with the issue of invasive pest and diseases invading pine trees in South Europe (Italy, France, Spain and Portugal). Pine trees are one of the largest families spread all over the world, including South Europe, which also has the highest number of invasive diseases. Information about the most important and most widespread invasive diseases and pests of pine trees in South Europe were identified and compared on several internet databases. This information is detail analyzed in the work. Information include the names of invasive pests and diseases, the year and the pathway of introduction in individual countries, their description, hosts, applied control measures etc. Thesis provides a unified and comprehensive facts about this issue. The most important and most widespread invasive diseases and pests of pine trees in South Europe are: Dothistroma septosporum, Lecanostica acicola, Fusarium circinatum, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus etc.
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Southern Europe and regional policy
Brožová, Jana ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Tunkrová, Věra (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis is to analyse European policy of economic and social cohesion in the southern states of the European Union. The import of regional policy consists in the strengthening of cohesion through the diminution of existing differences in socioeconomic level between EU member states and theirs regions. Significantly high budget item assigned to the regional policy on the European level affirms its importance. States of the southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece) gained long-standing experience in the implementation of the cohesion policy, therefore they are suitable for the evaluation of the effectiveness. The thesis seeks to deliver potential recommendations for the effectiveness improvement on the national as well as on the European level.
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Demografický vývoj vybraných zemí jižní Evropy
Dundálková, Zuzana
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to show the demographic development of selected countries in Southern Europe (Italy, Portugal, Greece and Spain) in the period of 1995 - 2011. The thesis is composed from two parts: theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part, contains explanation and description of demographic indicators and also demography in its general use. The practical part, contains the demographic indicators after thorough examination, presented and evaluated for every subjected country. In detail, specific indicators were used such as: birth rate, fertility, abortion, mortality, migration, marriage and divorce rates.
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