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The Social Housing Act through the lens of the Multiple Stream Framework
Dubišarová, Pavla ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Novotný, Vilém (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to describe and explain the process of advocacy of the Act on Social Housing in two different governmental periods, to find out the reasons for its failure and what strategies the actors used to promote their interests. The Act has been discussed in political discourse since 2007. During the government period of Bohuslav Sobotka, the agenda was pushed through and the substantive plan for the law was subsequently created. In the second government term of Andrej Babiš, work on the substantive plan was abandoned soon after the government was formed, and towards the end of the term there was an effort to push through the part dealing with the Act on Affordable Housing together with the Act on Public Benefit Housing Companies. In both periods, advocacy efforts were unsuccessful. Considering how complex and ambiguous the issue of the housing crisis and the actors involved in it are, I chose the Multiple Stream Framework for research. To analyse the policies, I used thematic analysis to examine secondary data such as public policy documents, strategic documents, expert studies and media outputs. The second type of data I used in my thesis were expert interviews. The results provide information on what strategies were used by the different actors, what were the main disagreements...
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The Role of Scientific Knowledge in International Policymaking: the Case of European Union's Science Diplomacy
Rosenheim, Adam ; Young, Mitchell (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
Master's Thesis Adam Rosenheim Summer 2021/2022 Abstract Science has long been an integral part of the relations among nations and of foreign policy endeavours of states. However, the term science diplomacy is relatively new, meaning more theoretically anchored research needs to be developed. Additionally, as the current world's challenges increasingly require a broad international response based on sound scientific knowledge, the worlds of science and policymaking become more interconnected. This thesis, therefore, attempts to articulate its understanding of the concept of science diplomacy and then presents an innovative conceptual framework for the study of the term. The research later analyses the role of specific scientific knowledge in international policymaking in the concrete case of two biodiversity protection strategies of the European Union using the proposed conceptual framework. It concludes that the categories of the proposed framework are not definitive in the sense that they could be assigned to a specific piece of expert-based information when it enters the policy process, which would then retain the categorisation permanently. On the contrary, the research has indicated that the proposed categories serve as temporary designations of the specific information, which can change over time....
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Legislative process of homoparental adoption in Czech Republic: perspective of theory of social construction of target populations
Hetflejšová, Lucie ; Hejzlarová, Eva (advisor) ; Nekola, Martin (referee)
Tato bakalářská práce pojednává o novele zákona o registrovaném partnerství. Cílem práce bylo popsat situaci na poli homoparentální politiky a identifikovat hlavní zainteresované aktéry a jejich stěžejní argumenty. K naplnění cílů byly využity zejména expertní rozhovory, dále obsahová analýza medií a studium a analýza dokumentů. Práci rámuje teorie sociální konstrukce cílových skupin od Schneider a Ingram a teorie fází veřejněpolitického procesu. Teorie sociální konstrukce cílových skupin se potvrdila zejména v odlišných konstrukcích cílové skupiny odpůrci a navrhovateli novely. Zatímco navrhovatelé pracují s potřebnými, kde je cílová skupina zkonstruována pozitivně, odpůrci pracují s devianty a konstruují cílovou skupinu negativně. Obě zmíněné skupiny jsou politické slabé. Vliv stranické podpory a podpory voličů se zdá v tomto případě zanedbatelný. V rámci této případové studie se tedy podařilo popsat dosavadní vývoj na poli homoparentální politiky do dubna 2015 a identifikovat hlavní aktéry procesu legalizace a jejich argumenty.
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