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Korupce v křesťanském národě: „Ovlivňuje křesťanská víra úroveň korupce ve společnosti?“
Kraus, František ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Svoboda, Miroslav (referee)
What are the determinants of corruption? This thesis builds upon contemporary approaches to assessing the level of corruption in different countries using purely economic determinants such as the aggregate income, level of education, openness to trade or taxation. This method is further enhanced by involving variables mapping the religiosity of the surveyed states as institutional determinants. Faith works as an agent that reduces selfish behavior and stresses moral values, thus it should prove to reduce corruption. The dataset involves data of 30 countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the years 1999-2010. Two independent OLS models are set up using corruption perception indicators as endogenous variables; one with purely economic determinants, and the other with added religious determinants of corruption. Expansion of the model gives out a more robust set of results with greater determination. The results show that increasing number of Protestants in a society correlates with lower levels of corruption. The effect of the government spending on education has been considerably reduced after involving the religious variables. However, corruption does not seem to be influenced by the percentage of Christians in total population.
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Teacher of humanities in contemporary school and society
Johnová, Petra ; Jirásková, Věra (advisor) ; Stracený, Josef (referee)
The thesis is focused on the role of teachers of social subjects in contemporary schools and society. The opening chapter deals with the specifics of the teaching profession and current issues that are in relationship with teacher. In this thesis, emphasis is placed on the analysis of teacher's pedagogical approach to teaching. One of the most important part of this work are interviews with teachers of civics and the social sciences and inspection of classes. Using interviews, observation and study of literature, I outlined the opportunities and challenges which are offered to civics and the social sciences teachers. The practical outcome of this thesis is to propose the model of teaching of social-education seminars for the fourth year of gymnasium. Keywords specifics of the teaching profession, civic education, social science, teachingapproach, relations teacher student, education, social science seminar
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Law Aspects of Corruption of Police and Courts in the Czech Republic
Štěrba, Ondřej ; Grmelová, Nicole (advisor) ; Žák, Květoslav (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the law aspects of corruption of police and courts in the Czech Republic. Theoretical part describes historical development of corruption and how its perception has changed during the development of our society, definition of corruption and crimes which it comes from. Next part presents structure and function of governmental anti-corruption organisations - police, courts and prosecution and non-governmental organisations represented by Anti-Corruption Endowment Fund, which operates in Czech Republic since 2011. To the international anti-corruption organisations belong European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), European Partners against Corruption (EPAC) and Group of States against Corruption (GRECO). Practical part consists of analysis of data gathered from Corruption Perception Index and analysis of decisions from the Highest Court of the Czech Republic. Data from the Index show us development of corruption in the Czech Republic and other states in past 20 years, which helps us to create a good overview about the corruption situation in these states. The second half of this part analyses the corruption crime decisions of the Highest Court, especially the amount of rejected or accepted extraordinary appeals and in how many cases figure policemen and judges as the accused ones. Conclusion summarises the whole thesis and gathered knowledge.
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The attempts to restore the Czech civil society in 1968. The social democracy, Club of the engaged non-party men and K 231 - Association of former political prisoners
Hoppe, Jiří ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Kocian, Jiří (referee) ; Jirásek, Zdeněk (referee)
The major subject of this thesis is to follow the activities of the restoring Czech civil society during the Prague Spring era that were aimed at setting up a plurality political system, at the decomposition of one-party government, or at the changes in the self-contained (closed) National Front system as it had emerged, or had been forcibly formed after 1948 February. The Phenomenon of the restoring civic society has been presented here in three specific models, namely the civic and political activation preserving the efforts to restore a traditional political party (namely Social Democratic Party), to be followed by the pre-political and in its substance clubbing activities of the non-party public in formation of Club of Engaged Non- Party Men, a lucidly nondescript organization; finally then, a formally clearly determinate K- 231 club endeavouring the judicial, civic and social rehabilitation of its members. Within the contexts of the Prague Spring events, these are the most fragrant documents of self-formation of the citizens without assistance of the political power; in the final effects, even against it. The attempt to restore the Social Democracy (Social Democratic Party, SDP in further) during the Prague Spring 1968 era could be appreciated as an intuitive effort to impair the dogma on the so-called...
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Pro-Women-Oriented NGO's in the Czech Republic. The Beginning and Present Reality - Case Study of Three NGO's
Bosáková, Jana ; Turková, Miloslava (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
In my thesis I focus on the mapping of the aims of selected pro-women-oriented NGO's in the time of their establishment and today, characteristics of potential changes of the aims and their possible impact on the original mission of the organisations/movement. In the introductory part I concentrate on the historical context of civic activities in the Czech society with the emphasis on women activities from the beginning of emancipation efforts in 19th century till 1990. I pay special attention to the context of establishment and development of the first women NGO's from the period of transformation after 1989 till the present time. In the analytical part I evaluate the development of the aims of NGO's - YWCA v ČR, Kluby křesťanských žen and Síť MC , which were founded/re-established in 1990 and are still in existence. Based on the analysis of documents and interviews I describe the development of their aims in the context of societal conditions affecting them since their establishment. In the conclusion I present the characteristics of the changes of the aims and their impact on the mission of organisations as illustration of development trends of the society relating to the demand for their services. The evaluation of their present state provides reflection of their "survival strategy", which reveals key...
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In the Whirl of Events: the Y.W.C.A. and the Civic Society in 1948.
Appeltová, Michaela ; Sokolová, Věra (advisor) ; Havelka, Miloš (referee)
This thesis concentrates on the "other" subject of history writing, once an important women's organisation in Czechoslovakia, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and from its perspective analyzes the changes that occurred in the NGOs sector after the communist takeover in February 1948. At first the thesis deals with its programme as well as the activities from its founding until 1948. Archive materials are in this part supplemented with the memories of its members. The main part of the thesis addresses the changes after 1948. It proves that the Communist Party did not have a clear vision of the extent of ideological control it would seek over the society - the thesis describes discussions about the structure of women and youth mass organisations that continued long after February 1948; the Communist Party indecisiveness about whether to liquidate the YWCA or merge it with one of the mass organisations; also a concern for the international consequences of liquidating the YWCA may have played its role in the communist indecisiveness. Further, the thesis describes the process of liquidating associations, intitutionalising the National Administrators in charge of the associations for the purpose of exercising better political control, and/or merging the associations with mass organisations. On the...
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Anti-corruption organizations in the Czech Republic
Vojáčková, Anna ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
The corruption and the fight against it falls among very frequently discussed topics appearing on the front pages of media, also this phenomenon is currently being intensively discussed and plays an ever increasing role in the civil society as well. Recently, the civil society has shown a new trend which manifests itself in the birth of new anti-corruption organizations, new projects and other activities. Because of all the reasons, the paper deals with the anti-corruption non-governmental organizations (NGO's) and their activities in the Czech Republic. The text is divided into four chapters constituting two parts having two chapters each. The first part contains a summary of theoretical knowledge, the first chapter describes the non-profit sector and NGO's activities theory, the second chapter summarizes the basic theoretical information about the corruption phenomenon. The second part focuses on the description of the anti-corruption organizations, employs the theoretical knowledge and provides an analysis of the anti-corruption NGOs. The third chapter describes particular organizations, analyzes their activities and, based on some common characteristics recognized, outlines the division of the organizations into several groups. The fourth chapter contains an analysis on cooperating between different anti-corruption NGOs and handles a case study of a so called Pankrácká výzva(Pankrácká challenge).
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