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The rise of Andrej Babiš and the ANO political movement in 2011-2014
KŘEPELOVÁ, Anna
The bachelor thesis deals with the political movement ANO and the entry of its main representative Andrej Babiš into Czech politics with an emphasis on the period 2011-2014. First, it deals with the early life of the actor and his business activities. In the following chapters, the thesis discusses the entry of the new civic movement into Czech politics and describes its gradual development. It then discusses the electoral campaign of the movement's leader and the subsequent parliamentary elections. The thesis presents the shifts in Andrej Babiš's views from his beginning in politics to his tenure as Minister of Finance. The aim is to analyse the success of the ANO movement and selected events related to Andrej Babiš.
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The comparative study of the media content of daily newspaper MF DNES in the period preceding the ownhership of Andrej Babiš and after the transfer of shares to trust funds
Višňovský, Pavel ; Železný, Jakub (advisor) ; Zunová, Anna (referee)
1 Annotation The bachelor's thesis focuses on the study of media image of the Czech political parties in MF DNES. There are two periods monitored and the daily newspaper shouldn't be influenced allegedly in any of them by the politician and businessman Ing. Andrej Babiš. The first period is defined from the beginning of the political party ANO 2011 until the closing deal with previous owners of the Czech media group MAFRA, the second period begins by the transfer of the Andrej Babiš's shares to the trust funds, and the study ends by his cession from the post of Finance Minister. There is applied comparative analysis and the results of the study are processed in the enclosed charts. The charts are accompanied by a concise script that briefly describes the content of the political articles appearing on the title pages. In the analysis of the daily press is taken account of the current political situation. The study is complemented by the historical and present context of the broadsheet Mladá fronta DNES, as well as the businessman and the politician Andrej Babiš.
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Analysis of the contents of the weekly magazine 5+2 days between 2012 and 2013
Hradiský, Jakub ; Klimeš, David (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
Abastract The thesis called Analysis of The 5+2 Days Weekly Magazine between 2012 and 2013 in its empiric part looks into the contents structure, its preferred topics and ratios of stories and cases from the defined parametres point of view throughout the period beginning the foundation of the magazine to the parliamentary elections held in October 2013. The analysis deals with the issue of presentation of the Agrofert holding as the magazine is its part and Andrej Babiš from his position of an owner and chairman of a political movement ANO he led to the snap parliamentary elections in 2013. The analysis examines if the fact that its owner is an enterpreneur, owner of one of the bigest Czech companies and a high-ranking politician has any impact on the contents of the magazine. The method used to analyse the contents is quantitative contents analysis. In its theoretical part the paper deals with basic social roles and functions of the media, concepts of free speech and independence of the media. This part of the thesis sees these concepts mainly from the ownership of the media point of view and the ownership's impact on their contents and function. The theoretical part also presents a review of the Czech media environment development after 2008 from the change of the ownership point of view.
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Activities of Agrofert holding covered by Mladá fronta Dnes and Lidové noviny before and after their takeover by Andrej Babiš
Havlová, Laura ; Hájek, Roman (advisor) ; Němeček, Tomáš (referee)
Exploration of the influences that an owner can have on his own media is an important topic nowadays. This master thesis focuses on the possible owner influences on his newspaper in the example of buying of the publishing house Mafra by Agrofert's owner Andrej Babis. It covers articles concerning Agrofert in two of Mafra's dailies - Mlada fronta Dnes and Lidove noviny. The reporting period covers two years before and two years after the purchase of Mafra by the owner of Agrofert and the current Czech Minister of Finance Andrej Babis. This covers the dates 5. 6. 2011 - 24. 6. 2013 and 25. 6. 2013 - 24. 6. 2015. This thesis uses the processes of quantitative content analysis and focuses on the comparison of texts about Agrofert in these two periods. In the sample of 631 articles it examines two dozen categories, such as topic, placement on the page as well as in the daily itself or quotation of Andrej Babis, and it tracks the changes that occurred in both halves of the reporting period. The shift in content of the Mafra's media, after the change of its owner has not been largely examined yet. This means that this thesis brings a first complex insight into the topic. This thesis aims to cover the changes that occurred in the reporting period and paves the way for more specific following researches....
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The Effect of Change of Media Ownership on the Content of Selected Daily Papers: The Case of the MAFRA Media House Acquisition
Štveráková, Iveta ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Müller, Karel (referee)
There seems to be growing amount of doubts about the independance of Czech media and its position in the public space since the mid 2013, when Andrej Babiš - the second wealthiest Czech entrepreneur and since 2014 also the minister of finance -- has bought MAFRA media house, which issues among others two Czech daily papers Mladá fronta DNES and Lidové noviny. Aim of this thesis is to find out, how the change in the ownership of the MAFRA media house affected the content of the two daily papers. Such effects are analysed in articles published in Mladá fronta DNES and Lidové noviny, firstly in general in the foreign policy topics, secondly in representation of the name of Andrej Babiš and thirdly in representation of the distinct subsidiaries of the Agrofert group. Data collection is divided into two separate periods -- before and after the acquisition of MAFRA media house by Andrej Babiš. Quantitative content analysis has been chosen as the method of research.
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Financial analysis of DEZA a.s. company
Maňák, Ondřej ; Horník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hnilica, Jiří (referee)
This work is focused on the assessment of financial situatuíon of DEZA company and the assessment of the use of foreign sources during the years 2004-2007 by making the financial analysis. This financial analysis is devided into 2 parts. The first part of the financial analysis is focused on horizontal and vertical analysis, analysis of the ratio indicators (profitability, liquidity, activity, bank ability and debt), net working capital analysis and the analysis of systems of indicators. The second part carries out the assessment of the company as a whole in term of using the foreign sources, creditworthy and banking models and in term of reaching the economic added value of the company in each period. Matter of fact is of course also sectoral comparison that compares DEZA with two sectors in which DEZA does a bussines. At the end of this work, the current state of the company affected by economic crisis is described in addition to an overall assessment .
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