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Media image of Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar in selected press from the period of split of Czechoslovakia
Matějková, Kristýna ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Charvát, Jakub (referee)
Czechoslovakia underwent a challenging transition from a communist regime to a democratic system in the 1990s. Some Slovak citizens perceived this period as their chance to seek emancipation. This desire, nourished by some political figures, started the division process of the Czechoslovak federation, which resulted in a series of bargaining between the two national prime ministers, Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar. The citizens of the federation were waiting to see how their protracted meetings would unfold. And the only intermediary that could regularly bring them information, were the media. Nevertheless, through its important role of informing the public, the media also has a considerable power to influence what people consider important and what they think about. The way in which the media covered all events that led to the breakup may have had an effect on the public opinion on the existence of Czechoslovakia. This diploma thesis offers a view on how selected Czechoslovak press in 1992 portrayed the main characters of the final split of Czechoslovakia, focusing on the perception of Václav Klaus in Slovak media and Vladimír Mečiar in Czech media.
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The Direct Presidential Election in the Czech Republic
Chmelíková, Tereza ; Štefek, Martin (advisor) ; Koubek, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the problem of direct presidential election in the Czech Republic. The first part focuses on constitutional changes which are necessary for this to come into effect, including an insight of both the proponents and the opponents from the political and expert spheres. The author attempts to answer the question whether the depicted institutional change can lead to a significant modification of the Czech political system. The goal of the submitted thesis is a treatise about semi- presidentialism. That is a crucial section of the thesis and is based not only on studying the classic political literature (Duverger, Elgie, Sartori, Shugart) but on selected methods of measuring the presidential power as well. The last part of the thesis analyzes the activity of the new president in office during his first year after being elected. Key words: Semi-Presidentialism; Direct Presidential Election; Presidential Power; Czech Politics Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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First Teachers, Then Students: Media Education in the Czech Republic.
Kunzik, Nicole ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Hanley, Seán (referee)
1 As more media continues to become available, there is an ever-growing need to consider how certain technologies and media messages affect users and society overall. The aim of this dissertation is to develop an understanding of media literacy in the Czech Republic and to investigate its significance within education, particularly teacher education. The research methods adopted for this study include an in-depth review of relevant media literacy literature, coupled with interviews from Czech Pedagogical Faculty members, and analyses of Czech national policy and university curricular documents. The findings from this work show that the main benefit of media literacy in primary and secondary schools is a non-hierarchical learning environment that encourages discussion, interaction, and critical thinking amongst students. Additionally, current media education policy in the Czech Republic is found to be ineffective. The main conclusion is that with more required media literacy courses or even a national standard for media literacy in teacher education programmes, the Czech Republic could improve teaching methods and present policy.
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Czech Republic - state or business?
Bambuchová, Jarmila ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The title of following thesis refers to an assertion made by entrepreneur and chairman of business firm party ANO 2011 Andrej Babiš. His slogan proposing 'to run the state in the same way as the firm' helped him to electoral gain accounting for 18,65% of votes securing the place in the government. Based on the broader theoretical framework of so called 'non-classical' economic approach to the notion of democracy this thesis focuses on the presence of economical features in functioning of two Czech political subjects VV and ANO 2011. Research unfolds at two levels. First, it concentrates on general considerations about theoretical significance of business-firm theories in the framework of functioning of democratic state. Second, it presents an application of these theories - a case study of two Czech political parties.
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Political communication on social media within the Covid-19 pandemic
Eliáš, Jakub ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Konrádová, Marcela (referee)
The thesis is focused on the topic of political communication on the social media site Twitter during the first year of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, specifically between 1.2.2020 - 31.1.2021. The main focus is on a few selected political actors from the Czech political establishment, specifically government officials and opposition political parties. Political communication of those selected actors was analysed using quantitative content analysis. As a part of this analysis, the author created multiple research questions to determine communication strategy of each selected actor. The analysis itself focused mainly on the frequency of occurrence of words related to pandemic, use of hashtags, and popularity factor within Twitter's network of users. As a unit of analysis was chosen each post published by the selected actor within the selected time frame. The author provided interpretation of each result throughout the thesis and also connects those results with created research questions in the thesis summary. The thesis ends with further ideas show to continue this research in the future.
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Participatory Democracy and Political Activism
Polák, Martin ; Znoj, Milan (advisor) ; Bíba, Jan (referee)
(in English): This bachelor thesis is dedicated to theories of participatory democracy and utilization of their ideas on the work of political activists in the Czech Republic. A theoretical basis of this work is definiton of participatory democracy, mainly according to Carole Pateman, Benjamin R. Barber and Brian Barry. This theoretical frame is subsequently used for the research part of the thesis, which is based on interviews with chosen representatives of political activism in the Czech Republic. These interviews are analyzed to find out, if the ideas of participatory democracy are important for the work and self-understanding of political activist, and if they are necessary for them. Since nowadays view of sociologists is, that there is mainly the transactional activism in the Czech Republic which does not include ideas of participatory democracy, the aim of this thesis is to point out, that there should be a general sociologist opinion which counts with the ideas of the participatory democracy as an important part of the political activism in the Czech republic, because, as my research has shown, these ideas are significant part of the self-understanding of chosen political activists.
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Political programmes of the Czech representation in the second half of the 19th century
Zikmund, Michal ; Malý, Karel (advisor) ; Šouša, Jiří (referee)
The thesis Political Programmes of the Czech Representation in the Second Halve of the 19th Century focuses on both programme documents and actual work of Czech political parties, whether more or less institutionalized, between the years 1848 (March Revolution) and 1918 (the downfall of Austria-Hungary). At first it summarizes the historical development in the respective period (Chapter 1), next, it analyses programmes of political parties in three broadly defined topics: 1) Organisation of the empire, question of the Czech State Right (Chapter 2); 2) Constitutionalism, civil rights and role of a citizen (Chapter 3) and 3) National matters (Chapter 4). The attitudes about each of these areas of the following political parties are defined: Bohemian nobility, National Party (till 1874) or Old Czechs (since then), Young Czechs, Social Democrats, Agrarians, Catholic parties, National Socialists, Progress parties and parties of the Radical State Right, Realists and Anarchists. For the conclusion, the author of the thesis attempts to characterise and evaluating the Czech political representation, as well as its importance for the development since 1918.
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Czech Republic - state or business?
Bambuchová, Jarmila ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
The title of following thesis refers to an assertion made by entrepreneur and chairman of business firm party ANO 2011 Andrej Babiš. His slogan proposing 'to run the state in the same way as the firm' helped him to electoral gain accounting for 18,65% of votes securing the place in the government. Based on the broader theoretical framework of so called 'non-classical' economic approach to the notion of democracy this thesis focuses on the presence of economical features in functioning of two Czech political subjects VV and ANO 2011. Research unfolds at two levels. First, it concentrates on general considerations about theoretical significance of business-firm theories in the framework of functioning of democratic state. Second, it presents an application of these theories - a case study of two Czech political parties.
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Formation of the Czech Party System 1943-1945
Langerová, Pavlína ; Kocian, Jiří (advisor) ; Doubek, Vratislav (referee)
This work is about the renewal of the Czech party system in period of 1943-1945. The introduction focuses on the liquidation of the party system in 1938, the party system of the Second Republic and contextualisation of the work to party systems theories. Another part deals with the formation of concepts of domestic and foreign Czechoslovak resistance on the future shape of the party system, in particular the cooperation of Moscow and London exile. The thesis describes the relationships and actions of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, based in the Soviet Union and their democratic competitors, who were headquartered in London, where the President Beneš and the State Council were seated. In particular, these relationships are the starting point for this work's research thesis: how the negotiations between the exile in London and Moscow influence and determined the post-war party constitution. The hypothesis that the activity of the Czechoslovak Communist Party in the Moscow exile was vital for the post-war party development will be confirmed or disproved in the conclusion. The final chapter focuses on initial period of the restoration of the organizational form and policy programs of the party system in the years 1944 - 1945 and the beginnings of activity of the parties within the National Front...
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