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Political Cycle in the European Union Countries
Kubátová, Zuzana ; Musil, Martin (advisor) ; Luštický, Martin (referee)
The aim of my diploma thesis is to analyse the posibility of existence of a political cycle in the selected european countries (Ireland and Germany). The work describes the various theories of the political cycle. I try to prove the existence of political cycle by analysing of political and economical data (inflation rate and unemployment rate). The work examines two main theories of the political cycle. These two theories are: opportunistic political cycle theory, which suppose that the main motive of the politicians are being re-elected in the next election. And ideological political cycle theory assume that politicians behavior accord to their parties ideological orientation.
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Political cycle in times of economic crisis
Joska, Jan ; Czesaný, Slavoj (advisor) ; Mládek, Josef (referee)
The diploma thesis analyzes, whether became in the case of the development of real GDP, inflation and unemployment in the Czech Republic and the USA to systematic influence these macroeconomic indicators of the ruling parties and their political orientation. The work is focused on the period from the beginning of the 1990's of 20th century to the present, with an emphasis on the pre-crisis and crisis periods of the current economic crisis. Tested are two fundamental theoretical concepts. The first one is a model of opportunistic theories of the business cycle, then the second one, the model of the ideological theory of the economic cycle. The work also analyzes whether there was in these two states deliberate influencing of government expenditure in electoral periods in order to increase the chances of government politicians for re-election. The work also explores the similarities and differences of the pre-crisis and crisis periods of the current economic crisis to the great depression of the 1930's of 20th century.
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Development of public finances and fiscal consolidation in the V4 countries
Vavrek, Pavol ; Ježek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Gregárek, Matěj (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to evaluate and analyze the development of publicfinance in the V4 countries and their consolidation during the period 2002 - 2010. In that period of time there have been significant changes that directly affected the fiscal policies of all members of the V4. The examples of such changes is the fiscal decentralization, the admittance of this countries into the European Union and in the case of Slovakia also the fulfillment of the convergence criteria before joining the Eurozone in 2009. The work also analyses the transformation process in the V4 countries, because it very influenced the other fiscal development. The thesis seeks to examine and compare the economic policies of the governments of V4, which aim to restructure of public funds. The thesis also tries to link the knowledge obtained with the political cycle.
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Political cycle and the trend of public finance in the Czech Republic since 1993
Hýbner, Tomáš ; Kapinusová, Jana (advisor) ; Zemplinerová, Alena (referee)
The theoretical part of the bachelor thesis deals with issues of the political cycle, the behavior of political parties inside this cycle and the behavior of citizens in position of voters. Then there is investigated the influence of this behavior on the business cycle as well as on important fiscal indicators development, such as budget or budget deficit. The practical part of this work deals with public finance development and emphases central government finance with regards to the relations of this development with the political cycle. The area that was investigated was the Czech Republic in the period from year 1993, when the independent state was established, to these days.
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Political efforts to be re-elected - the contexts of the business cycle in the Czech Republic?
Josková, Kamila ; Czesaný, Slavoj (advisor) ; Potužák, Pavel (referee)
As apparent from the name of my diploma thesis I am trying to find a relation between the political and the economical cycle in the Czech Republic. It is evident that the political events are motivated by the personal interests of the politicians to be re-elected. Also the development of the economy does not need to be spontaneous but influenced by the populist intentions. In the theoretical part I am trying to explain the relations between the political and the economical cycle and also the behaviour of several macroeconomic variables which I have chosen for the analytical part of my work. These are: GDP development, inflation, unemployment rate, social migration of the population, consumption and balance of the state budget. In the analytical part I am analysing the behaviour of the selected variables in the election period 1996-1998, 1999-2002, 2003-2006 and in the first two years of the postelection period 2007 and 2008. Based on the behaviour of the variables within the political cycle I am trying to find the possible reason of their development, whether it is a spontaneous process characterized by the current phase of the economical cycle or whether it is a result of the implemented populist measures.
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