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Miloš Zeman Prime Minister and the President: continuity or change in opinion?
Hnízdil, Ivo ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse opinions of Milos Zeman as the prime minister and as the president in similar political situations in three circuits, while selected issues closely touched the offices of the Prime Minister, or the President. Comparing these standpoints this paper concludes that Milos Zeman is not very consistent in his opinions. It seems that a change of his views is motivated by the current political profit and maximizing influence of the held constitutional post. Theoretical part of this paper characterizes the political system of the Czech Republic with emphasis on the necessary cooperation of concerned branches of state power. This allows readers the insight and the inclusion of individual standpoints of Milos Zeman to the realities of the practical functioning of the system. On this theoretical basis clearly stands out Milos Zeman's motivation to change viewpoint or stay in the former one.
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Modern Campaigning in K.Schwarzenberg's presidential campaign - Fundraising, Volunteering, Endorsement
Šindelář, Jiří ; Hejlová, Denisa (advisor) ; Shavit, Anna (referee)
The bachelor's thesis "Modern campaigning in K. Schwarzenberg's presidential campaign: Fundraising, volunteering, endorsement" focuses on specific methods in election campaigns. In the first part it describes fundraising, volunteering and endorsement in context of political communication and marketing. It also mentions reasons for their usage and possible ways of execution and communication. The brief summarization of application of these methods in Czech campaigns is at the end of the first part. The main part of this thesis describes and analyses fundraising, volunteering and endorsement in Karel Schwarzenberg's 2012/2013 presidential campaign using primary and secondary sources. In terms of fundraising the thesis analyses its communication and amount of donations, furthermore, it describes whether practice from the USA was applied. Moreover, the thesis deals with the acquisition of volunteers and individual supporters, also mentioning the internal communication and volunteer communication with voters in the Schwarzenberg's campaign. Potential reasons for emphasis on endorsement are mentioned at the end.
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Conflict over competences after introduction of direct election of the president in the Czech Republic
Dragoun, Radek ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
This bachelor thesis is concerned with question of competence in the Czech republic between president and others state constitutional authorities after the introduction of direct presidential election and after electing Miloš Zeman as president. The thesis examines the parts of the Constitution where there is the possibility of occurrence of question of competence or where there are different interpretations. The main aim is to describe and analyze question of competence between Miloš Zeman and others constitutional authorities. Based on these disputes, this bachelor thesis offers modifications of the Constitution of the Czech Republic which could prevent similar disputes. The result of bachelor thesis is appreciation whether introduction of direct elections had an impact on the incidence of question of competence or it is associated with Miloš Zeman.
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Attitude of czech daily press Lidové noviny, Mladá fronta Dnes a Právo to direct election of the president of the Czech republic
Kottová, Anna ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
My thesis named "Attitude of Czech dailies Lidové noviny, Mladá fronta Dnes and Právo to the first direct Czech presidential election" should confirm or disprove the bias of the three Czech newspapers in the period between the first and the second round of the direct presidential election. The first part of thesis focuses on selected chapters of media, linguistic and semiotic theories regarding bias. It also discusses the process of direct elections and CVs of Karel Schwarzenberg and Miloš Zeman. At first, I used quantitative analysis to determine if the newspapers were balanced and provide comparable space to the both candidates. Then I applied the qualitative analysis to find out what language and semiotic components used the authors from newspapers to inform the public about the candidates of the second round of direct elections. Depending on the findings, I divide the articles into positive, neutral, negative categories for Karel Schwarzenberg and positive, neutral, negative for Miloš Zeman. After the victory of Miloš Zeman the bias was discussed. This thesis should answer the question of whether the three Czech newspapers were biased in favour of Karel Schwarzenberg or Miloš Zeman between the first and the second round of the first direct Czech presidential election.
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Analysis of the debates of the candidates in the 2nd round of direct presidential election in the Czech Republic in the context of the political campaign
Rozsypal, Michael ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
This diploma thesis analyses the debates of the two candidates who passed to the second round of the Czech direct presidential election in 2013. Primarily focuses on the debates in the public service media - Czech Television and Czech Radio. To put into context the whole campaign will briefly examine the debates on commercial TV stations as well. The thesis applies content analysis as the methodology. It measures how often both candidates (Miloš Zeman and Karel Schwarzenberg) mentioned their officially declared programme theses in a total of six debates on television and radio. The campaign is also presented more broadly in order to put the analysis into a wider context. Only programmes officially designated will be considered for the analysis so as to secure its accuracy. A quantitative analysis of the content will be applied in order to measure the frequency of programme theses in the debates researched. The principal goal of the thesis is to confirm or disconfirm the hypothesis that programme theses do not play such an important role in a political campaign in general, nor in candidate debates. I focus on the aspect of how different debates were and in which type of media presidential candidates presented the higher number of their programme theses.
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Photography of political campaigns: compromise between reality and staged image
Kardová, Helena ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Štefaniková, Sandra (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on photographs related to the first direct presidential election in the Czech Republic published in the dailies the Blesk and the Lidové noviny and in the weeklies Reflex and Respekt. By the means of image analysis and interviews with some media professionals, it examines to what extent the photographs were co-created by the PR departments of the individual candidates. The submitted thesis outlines a brief historical overview of how the staged image of the politician has been used in the United States of America and offers an overview of potentially manipulative tools defined in terms of visual literacy (associational juxtaposition, staged behaviour, Kuleshov effect, subjective view, camera angle, emphasising detail). These tools are reflected in the image analysis and together with some quantitative data and some photoreporters' testimonies characterize the visual quality level of the selected media. The aim of this thesis is to draw attention to the close collaboration of the domains of public relations and photojournalism, which might lead to the erosion of journalistic standards.
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Czech presidential campaign 2012/2013: The Use of Political Marketing in the Reflection of Strategic Effects of Electoral System and Voters Psychology
Hannich, Jiří ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Shavit, Anna (referee)
The subject of this diploma thesis is the usage of elements of political marketing in the Czech presidential campaign 2012/2013. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on the general development of political communication and election campaigns, the principles considering the performing of political marketing, the basic formulas of voters' decision-making and models of coordinated behavior of the electorate and political representatives depending on the strategic effects of electoral systems. In a subsequent analysis of the election campaigns of selected presidential candidates - Miloš Zeman, Karel Schwarzenberg, Jan Fischer and Jiří Dienstbier - is monitored, how and under what circumstances the advancement of political marketing is applied, whether the candidates and their election team incorporate the assumed strategic effects of the election system into the planning process and implementation of election campaigns, hence if and how the campaign considers the voters' experienced ideas about the head of the state.
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The Expertise of Political Parties on the Example of Presidental Elections in the Czech Republic
Formáčková, Monika ; Novotný, Vilém (advisor) ; Linek, Lukáš (referee)
The Diploma Thesis is based on the Case study of the direct election of the President of the Czech Republic. Due to this Case study it examines expertise of the Czech political parties. Is there any expertise in political parties represented in the Parliament of the Czech Republic? Why analytical capacities have (or not have) influence on policy decisions? In theoretical concept including democracy, policy work, expert capacities, elections etc. the Thesis examines the relationship between the expertise of political parties and enactment of the direct presidential elections.
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The Direct Presidential Election in the Czech Republic
Chmelíková, Tereza ; Štefek, Martin (advisor) ; Koubek, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the problem of direct presidential election in the Czech Republic. The first part focuses on constitutional changes which are necessary for this to come into effect, including an insight of both the proponents and the opponents from the political and expert spheres. The author attempts to answer the question whether the depicted institutional change can lead to a significant modification of the Czech political system. The goal of the submitted thesis is a treatise about semi- presidentialism. That is a crucial section of the thesis and is based not only on studying the classic political literature (Duverger, Elgie, Sartori, Shugart) but on selected methods of measuring the presidential power as well. The last part of the thesis analyzes the activity of the new president in office during his first year after being elected. Key words: Semi-Presidentialism; Direct Presidential Election; Presidential Power; Czech Politics Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Direct election of the Czech president: approaching to Semipresidentialism?
Šodek, Adam ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Novák, Miroslav (referee)
Diploma thesis seeks to analyze the introduction of the direct election of the President of the Czech Republic as a potential impulse towards semipresidentialism. For this purpose, the work defined theoretical concepts parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential forms of government. In addition to the anticipated research direct election, as an factor of strengthening the president's legitimacy among others, the work will include analysis of the effects of Miloš Zeman first year in office and its relation to other constitutional institutions. These assessments are important for overal outputs of this work because they can be a pointer to the objectives of the work. The work will also be mentioned tradition of Czech (Czechoslovak) presidency.
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