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Reforms and modernization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ondráček, Dušan ; Hesová, Zora (advisor) ; Barša, Pavel (referee)
(anglicky) This thesis aims to analyze the primary goal and analyze the trends in the Saudi modern kingdom, which is perceived as a Puritan and traditionally writing country in which reforms are doomed to failure, while answering the research question "Can the theory be applied to modern The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? " The hypothesis of the thesis is the thesis that the above view is not only distorted, but to some extent erroneous. Since its founding in 1932, the kingdom has undergone and continues to undergo modernization, in many areas, most of which will be disabled in its dissertation. However, for a comprehensive understanding of the topic, it is necessary to describe in detail the concept of modernization, and also to describe the concept of modernization, what is the legitimacy of the ruling Saudi family, what aspects affect their governance and who makes up Saudi society. For this reason, this work has as its secondary goal to introduce readers to these areas.
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Israeli political system as a consociational democracy?
Ondráček, Dušan ; Hesová, Zora (advisor) ; Štefek, Martin (referee)
(anglicky) The aim of the work is to introduce the model of consociational democracy created by A. Lijphart, Dutch's political scientist, as one of the possible constructs for establishing and maintaining democracy in the segmented societies. This model is applied to Israel, which for reasons that the work also deals with, can be termed socially segmented. The application of model focuses exclusively on the four characteristics of the consociational democracy, as defined by Democracy in Plural Societies (1977). The results of this application are, in the end, compared to the thesis that calls Israel a semi-consociational democracy.
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