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Direct election of the president of the Czech Republic and the United States
JURGOVÁ, Iva
The bachelor thesis deals with the direct election of the president in the Czech Republic and the United States. Subject of the thesis is the comparison of electoral systems for the presidential election and the comparison of competences resulting from these elections. The first part of the thesis includes a description of the electoral systems, position of the president in the various political systems and the subsequent description of political systems. In the second part of thesis, attention is paid to the comparison of the method of electing the president and his competencies. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to compare the constitutional institutions - presidents in the Czech Republic and the United States.
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Drafts dealing with Changes of the Electoral System into the Chamber of Deputies: Analysis and Alternative Approach: Study 1.191
Pecháček, Štěpán ; Němec, Jan
The paper starts from the analysis of the elections 2006 (Chamber of Deputies). The results gave birth the idea of electoral system change to strengthen the proportionality and to establish the bonus for the winning party. The idea has been included into the coalition agreement and into the program of government policy. The paper analyses effects of various modifications of the electoral system. The results of the survey proves that D´Hondt divider fulfills the best way the optimal rank of proportionality only in the case it is applied in the single electoral constituency (Czech Republic as a whole). This system also includes a certain natural bonus for the winner. The adoption of an artificial bonus for winner in other models of electoral system causes always smaller rank of proportionality.
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Election Polls in Czech Republic: Methodological Optimalizations
Prokop, Daniel ; Krejčí, Jindřich (advisor) ; Soukup, Petr (referee)
Bibliographic record PROKOP, Daniel. (2012). Election polls in the Czech Republic: Methodological Optimization. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institut of Sociological Studies. Thesis academic consultant: Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D. Abstract The thesis focuses on the election-polls and prediction of election results in the Czech Republic. Using data of research company MEDIAN s.r.o. from face-to-face (CAPI) and telephone interviewing (CATI) in election year 2010 it examines possibilities of methodological optimizations which could lead to reducing systematic bias and discrepancies of pre-election polls the election results. In particular, it discusses these methodological solutions: mix-mode data collection (combination of CATI and CAPI), data weighting focused on specific factors correlated with voting behavior, including preferences of undecided voters, prediction of the respondents' participation in elections, election-polls results time-series smoothing. Based on these analyses the thesis tries to articulate general findings which could be fruitful in discussion about Czech election-polls and their methodology in general. In the thesis, basic and advanced statistic methods (CART, exponential smoothing, etc.) are being used to achieve given research goals. Keywords: election...
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Unemployment in Terms of Choice of Political Parties
Hromádko, Martin ; Vostrovská, Zdenka (advisor) ; Durdisová, Jaroslava (referee)
The thesis deals with the relationship between unemployment and the electoral results of the political parties in the Czech Republic. For this purpose data on election results for individual political parties and available economic and demographic data from the electoral districts of the Czech Republic from 1996 -- 2010 are analyzed. Data are analyzed by using a linear regression model, which is estimated using ordinary least squares method. The results confirm the apparent relationship between electoral results and the unemployment rate in the districts, which significantly increases the electoral support of the left-wing parties and hurts right-wing. The thesis also found some support for the theory of economic voting and there is evidence that an increase in unemployment in the short term of one year before the election reduces support for incumbent parties. This dependence, however, is clearly demonstrated only in the case of left-wing government and not as obvious in the case of right-wing government.
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2004 and 2009 European Parliament Elections in the Czech Republic and their Impact on the Party System
Mach, Petr ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Šušlíková, Lada (referee)
This diploma thesis comparatively analyses elections to the European Parliament held in 2004 and 2009 in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the main features of these elections with the aim of finding their main similarities and differences. For this purpose the framework of the classic "second order elections" concept is used which was introduced by Karlheinz Reif and Hermann Schmitt. The introductory part summarizes the main aspects of the "second order elections" concept. What follows is the examination of development of the electoral system for the elections to the European parliament. Crucial features of the electoral system used in the Czech Republic are explored in detail. The main part of the thesis concentrates on the analysis of elections to the European Parliament held in the Czech Republic in 2004 and 2009. These elections are put into context of domestic political situation. Additionally, party lists and election manifestos are examined, as well as the most important facets of election campaigns of relevant political parties. Necessary attention is also paid to the analysis of election results and to their implications for the political and party system. Finally, in the closing chapter both elections are compared using the "second order elections" concept.
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Nobleman and Hunting
HOLCEPL, Radek
The study of noble hunting phenomenon confirms that game keeping did not represent only entertainment for aristocracy but performed much more functions in the process of constituting the collective mentality of aristocracy. Taking the width and depth of motivation into account it turned out completely inadequate to consider hunting a mere sort of sport activities of aristocrats. This diploma paper presents the analysis of intricate relationships between the noble world-view and the world of hunting. It offers the outline of origins and forms of the aristocratic thinking about hunting, which contributed to the preservation of the nobleness tradition under Franz Joseph I. It is done with the emphasis put on the Czech aristocrats, especially the Schwarzenberg family. From different points of view the respective chapters examine different elements and layers of the ideology underlying the noble game-keeping that made up a significant constituent of the "other reality", into which the aristocracy confined themselves in the era of citizenship.
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Ethymology of fish designations in Czech and in east Slavonic languages
Pankina, Jevgenija ; Hanel, Lubomír (referee) ; Andreska, Jan (advisor)
This diploma work deals with ethymology of fish designations in Czech and in east Slavonic languages. The designations'origin in each of these languages is explained according to its definition in Czech and Russian ethymological dictionaries. The definition is completed by a large amount of other sources focused on this issue. Every item is compared in both languages and if the found information allows, a conclusion from the comparison is drawn. The work is devided into three chapters. The first chapter deals with the role of the Slavonic languages within the Indoeuropean language family and the historical evolution of the picked Slavonic languages. The second chapter deals with the designation of particular freshwater-fish tribes and geni in the abovementioned languages. It is devided in two parts. The first one focuses on the designation of fish with homogenous origin, the second one focuses on the designations with hererogenous origin. The third chapter consists of columnal lists which create the so-called comparative dictionary. Each columnal list includes comments focused on the description of geographical fish habitation in the past compared to the present time.
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The constituent negation and ways to express it in contemporary Czech
Veselovská, Kateřina ; Lehečková, Eva (referee) ; Medová, Lucie (advisor)
The thesis is focused on constituent negation and ways of its expressing in contemporary Czech, or more precisely in Czech National Corpus (SYN2005) and Prague Dependency Treebank (version 2.0). In most of the Czech linguistic handbooks, constituent negation was treated as such a negation that does not operate on predicate. The author offers a new definition of constituent negation in Czech, based on data research and study of relevant literature concerning syntactic negation. Further, the author proposes a formalization of the structure of constituent negation within the framework of construction grammar and she also explores the possibility to express the findings in PDT.
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Influence of the elections and electoral systems on dissolution of the Socialist federal republic of Yugoslavia
Höfer, Karel ; Buben, Radek (advisor) ; Koubek, Jiří (referee)
The author is concerned with the influence of elections and electoral systems on dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at example of Slovenia and Croatia in his contribution from the field of political science. He analyses the role of elections and electroral systems in the republic parliaments of Slovenia and Croatia on the basis of methodological procedures and theoretical concepts. It is done primarily by the transformation of allocation of political power before and after the elections and also by the consequences of the elections. Together with it the reader is briefed by the basic facts about dissolution of Yugoslavia and emergence of selected successor countries. The infuence of elections at the level of republics consisted in the legitimization of transformation of allocation of political power toward to the republics and in the legitimization of democratic way above all. The influence of electoral systems consisted in proportion of the results above all. The elections at the level of republics simplified the decentralization of Yugoslavia leading to its dissolution. Elections and electoral systems was significant part of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the independence of its parts. The desitegration process was far more complex and its pure reduction for the election would...
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Vyhodnocení perspektivních genových zdrojů zeleniny z Asie
Svátková, Kateřina
Diploma thesis deals with the vegetable species and varieties of Chinese seed companies. Development of individual vegetable items, nutritional composition, morphology and growth parameters were observed for seven vegetables species during year 2013. Observed vegetable species were: Pigweed (Amaranthus sp L.), Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. subsp. pekinensis (Lour.) Hanelt), Asparagus lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. angustana L. H. Bailey), Indian lettuce (Lactuca indica L.), Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.), Common purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) and Jewels of Opar (Talinum paniculatum (Jacq.) Gaertn.). Pigweed was evaluated in three varieties, Chinese cabbage and Asparagus lettuce in two varieties. Other species were represented by only one variety. Perspective vegetable species were recommended for the Czech Republic based on the results of successful experiment. Interesting and perspective species were Pigweed, especially the variety 'Beijing amaranth No. 4' ,,green", Asparagus lettuce, item (46), Indian lettuce, Common purslane and Jewels of Opar, not only because of easy cultivation, but also because of the number of constituents. Chinese cabbage and Basil were also cultivated very easily, but bigger attention should be focused on new or lesser-known species in Czech Republic.
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