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Political party system in Japan: its evolution and typology after electoral reform 1994
Antonenko, Alexandra ; Říchová, Blanka (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
The Japanese political party system has been a typical representative of the predominant party system in modern democratic society for a few decades now. Although its legitimacy was often criticized by academics as well as by the public, it was characterized by a remarkable endurance of the dominant Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. Even with the electoral reform in 1994, whose objective was to eliminate this particular system, it persisted, at least seemingly. It was not until 2009 when predictions of many political scientists came to pass through the influence of many neoliberal reforms, which resulted in an increased volatility of voters and thus there was a first real opportunity for shift of power and creation of a bipartism. Unfortunately it ended in a devastating failure tightly connected with an unsuccessful administration of the Democratic Party of Japan, which caused an increasing political mistrust among people and a rise of Liberal Democratic Party of Japan to power again. This thesis studies the development and specifics of the Japanese political party system through recent years and its determining factors. Part of this thesis therefore evaluates political and social theores in a context of the Japanese environment. Main focus of the thesis is to apply these theories to the Japanese...
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New political parties in Slovakia after the parliamentary election in year 2010 and 2012
Ambrózyová, Miroslava ; Müller, Karel (advisor) ; Smetanková, Daša (referee)
The Slovak political party system was shaken by new political parties, that emerged just recently and strongly influenced the political scene. The aim of the paper was to find out, what was the key of success of the the new political parties, which made it to the parliament in the parliamentary elections in June 2010 and in march 2012. In order to reach this goal I research the circumstances which lead to the establishment of these parties, their election program, the governmental period, the campaign and the role of the party leader. The paper is divided into four chapters, out of which the chapter one is dedicated to the teoretical background and definitions, the second chapter is putting light on the Slovak party and election system, the chapter three and four are the analytical core of the paper, in which I analyze the the political parties SaS, Most-Híd and OĽaNO in the above mentioned areas. I conclude the analytical part by the anlysis of the election results do the Slovak parliament in year 2010 and the preliminary election in the year 2012.
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