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Use of the term populism in British broadsheets
Vondrášková, Veronika ; Pekáček, Ondřej (advisor) ; Klásková, Markéta (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to explore the use of the terms "populism" and "populist" in UK daily broadsheets. a change in the use of this term depending on a previous study conducted in the United Kingdom more than a decade ago by T. Bale, S. van Kessel and P. Taggart. In addition to comparing previously identified results, there is an attempt to reveal differences in the use of the term between diaries through their ideological preference. The articles published by The Independent, The Guardian, The Times, and The Telegraph in one and a half months at the beginning of 2019 are analysed. The results of the content analysis of systematically selected articles reveal results that do not differ in many cases from previous study. Difference is found in the situation who (ie person, event, institution) is most often referred to as "populist", the fact that the term "populist" " is still used up to be used up to three times more often than "populism". The difference is also found in the use of terms in the political genre, where the terms are now used more often as a mere adjective without a deeper description than it was before. Regarding the differences between the broadsheets according to their political preferences, differences are found that daily newspapers leaning to the right use the terms in...
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The Formation of the Tea Party Movement
Bicková, Eliška ; Calda, Miloš (advisor) ; Kucer, Maxim (referee)
Tea Party affects American politics since 2009 when she began under the name of former revolutionary movement to fight government interventions with massive demonstrations. There was often incorrect expectation concerning Tea Party's potential in the first years of her activity. Tea Party supporters cannot be easily characterized, since a very differentiated group of Americans identifies itself with the movement, they come from a broad scale of social groups from Religious Right to libertarians or radical populists, which makes Tea Party an easy subject of criticism. Such criticism is often related to accusations of racism and rigid approach to social issues, to which contributed also certain Tea Party candidates. Nationwide political radicalization, which Tea Party allegedly caused up to a great extent, cannot be confirmed, though, radicalization can be discerned rather within the ideologically differentiated Congress. Although the elections of 2010 and 2012 brought a group of Tea Party supporters into the Congress, it wasn't such a significant success, as many of her protagonists expected. Tea Party established the Tea Party Caucus as an organizational tool. The members of the Caucus ranked among the most active congressmen, the number of their achievements is questionable, though. Throughout the year...
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