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Legislative Process in EU: Statistics and Overview
Kovařík, Tomáš ; Burget, Radek (referee) ; Očenášek, Pavel (advisor)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the legislative process of the European Union in terms of carrying out every single step of the process. The first part deals with the legislative process and its steps which are further analyzed along with the individual approval procedures. The second scheme of the application together with various kinds of statistics is described in the second part. The Third part deals with the description of the formerly created application for the depiction of created outlines, charts and statistics.
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Zhodnocení dopadů Lisabonské smlouvy na fungování Evropského parlamentu
Drewniaková, Aneta
The thesis examines selected changes of the Lisbon Treaty and their impact on the European Parliament. The context in the history of the European Union, the establishment and development of the European Parliament is mentioned, as well as the circumstances of the creation of the Treaty of Lisbon and the changes which has been introduced. Particularly, these are institutional changes, new authority or areas of competence. Subsequently, the use of individual instruments by the European Parliament is analysed and evaluated.
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Legislative Process in the European Union: European Citizens' Initiative
Houda, Ondřej ; Knutelská, Viera (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
This thesis is embedded in the theoretical approach of multilevel governance and presumption of the rational behaviour of actors. Using the method of process tracing it aims to uncover the legislative process in the European Union. It is a single case study and as a case was chosen the negotiation of the regulation of the citizens' initiative. Various actors were involved in the negotiations, this thesis focuses on the main one - European Commission, European Parliament, the Council, interest organisations and national parliaments. The thesis presumed, that all actors will try to push through their interests based on their rational choice. This presumption was verified, although the success rate of the players varied a lot. As the most successful should be considered the European Parliament, who defended the interests of the individuals and the Council, which apparently represented the interests of the governments of the member states (especially in the issues of lowering the bureaucratic burden). The interest organisations showed their positions clearly, however the Commission did not take their positions much into account while preparing the draft regulation. The position of the national parliaments was different then presumed. Although the thesis expected them to be directly involved in the...
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Politicising EU Leadership Selection: Explaining the Success and Failure of the Spitzenkandidaten Procedure from the perspective of Postfunctionalism
Graf, Nikolaus Amadeus Ferdinand Maria ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Shaev, Brian (referee)
EN With the changes in the Lisbon treaty, the party groups of the European Parliament unilaterally introduced the Spitzenkandidaten procedure, nominating lead candidates for the office of the President of the European Commission for the European elections of 2014. After its arguable success in 2014, when Jean-Claude Juncker became President of the Commission, the procedure then failed in 2019, when the national leaders in the European Council selected Ursula von der Leyen as Commission President. She had not stood as a lead candidate of her party family during the election. Considering the circumstances, the following question presents itself: Why did the Spitzenkandidaten procedure seemingly fail in 2019, when it was already successful in 2014? This thesis attempts to answer this question by formulating an argument on the basis of Postfunctionalism that domestic politicisation of the topic lead to constraining dissensus at the EU level, which resulted in the rejection of the Spitzenkandidaten procedure. The thesis tests the existence of domestic politicisation on the basis of discourse analysis of the election campaigns of significant political actors in France during the European elections of 2014 and 2019. The analysis results in the conclusion that there was no significant politicisation of...
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From Brussels with love? Data Analysis of Social Media usage by Czech Members of the European Parliament
Vanka, Boris ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Ullrichová, Eliška (referee)
Populism is on growth throughout Europe and the World. Research has shown that especially in the European Parliament, the number of populist politicians is rising over the last decades. Likewise, social media usage by users is booming and is used particularly by this type of politicians who spread their messages, using emotionality and negativity. Since the literature indicated that populists are especially active, efficient, and followed this research aimed to analyze the relationship between the degree of populism and its influence on the three variables of the Members of the European Parliament elected for Czechia. In order to evaluate such a relationship, the data from Facebook (page posts, interaction by users, and numbers of followers) were utilized to test defined hypotheses and answer the research question. Exploratory Data Analysis was used as a wider framework, while Pearson Correlation Coefficient served as a tool for computing the correlation. Therefore, the scale of the independent variable (degree of populism) was based on data about Czech political parties, reflected in anti-elitism, corruption salience, protectionism, and nationalism. The dependent variables were based on activity, efficiency, and acquirement of followers. Moreover, the test of statistical significance was conducted...
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Communication of the European Parliament and its influence on the democracy in the Czech Republic
Hrabětová, Magdaléna ; Hejlová, Denisa (advisor) ; Shavit, Anna (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to coherently unify the functioning communication strategies and tools of the European Parliament into one academic work. Furthermore, to provide an insight into the functioning of individual institutions of the European Union and introduce important concepts that connect communication with democracy. In the practical part, with the help of theoretical knowledge and qualitative research, we will gain a comprehensive understanding of the communication of individual Czech Members of the European Parliament with citizens, evaluate the effectiveness of EP communication, and assess its impacts on democracy in the Czech Republic.
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From Brussels with love? Data Analysis of Social Media usage by Czech Members of the European Parliament
Vanka, Boris ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Ullrichová, Eliška (referee)
The central theme of this thesis was a deeper understanding of social media communication by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) elected for Czechia between 2020 and 2022. The author decided to conduct the research due to the influence the politicians maintain (factual within the legislative process and the one based on their authority when co-creating opinions in the public sphere), while a lack of academic studies on such a topic existed, establishing a research gap to be filled. In the past, researchers within the field of political sciences focused primarily on the qualitative dimension of online communication (text analysis) or only one of the social media platforms (mostly Twitter). This approach could uncover sentiments but made it much more challenging to spot trends. Therefore, the data from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram were obtained via an online provider Zoomsphere, mainly from the parties' leaders in the European elections of 2019. These pieces of information were researched with a data analysis approach, which consisted of nine main steps. After evaluating the research aim, data were identified, collected, extracted, cleaned, aggregated, analyzed, and finally visualized in order to make conclusions based on the outcomes. Once this process was finished, the data were compared...
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Analýza volebních programů českých politických stran u voleb do Evropského parlamentu
Hudečková, Zuzana
The subject of the diploma thesis is an analysis of election programs of four Czech political parties for EU parliamentary elections. The subject of the research is a comparison of targeting national and European issues in the election programs. The thesis assumes that the election programs target issues, which are characteristic for elections at the national level. The thesis applies one of the characteristics of the theory of second order elections to the EU parliamentary elections. Data gathering is based on content analysis.
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The Czech Pirate Party and The Pirate Party Germany and Elections to the European Parliament in 2019
TICHÁNKOVÁ, Viktorie
This bachelor thesis deals with an election to the European Parliament in May 2019 focusing The Czech Pirate party and The Pirate Party Germany. At first, it introduces the reason of the beginning of pirate parties. Then, in other two most extensive chapter, the circumstances of establishments of the Czech and German pirate parties and their priorities are analyzed. The following part focuses on the election to the European Parliament with an accent kept on matching preelection campaignes, estimated and actual results. The last part of the thesis is devoted to comparison of these parties from the general point of view and in the context of the election to the European Parliament.
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