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Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and its European policy 1986-2007
Ježková, Simona ; Kunštát, Miroslav (advisor) ; Mejstřík, Martin (referee)
This master's thesis, titled Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and its Approach to European Integration 1986-2007, analyses an era of twenty-plus years in which the party, led by Jörg Haider, underwent a major ideological shift. The FPÖ abandoned its original liberal pro-European position and, in the 1990s, became a Eurosceptic populist movement akin to the far right. This work aims to assess whether these shifts can be described using the theories formulated by Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak and by Nick Sitter - who postulate that a party's participation in government is among the factors influencing the degree to which it is Eurosceptic. They suggest that a party's rhetoric regarding the European Union tamps down if the party participates in the government, becoming a part of a coalition government or supporting a minority government. During the period examined in this thesis, the FPÖ was a part of three governing coalitions. It was also a period of significant events which enable us to analyse the FPÖ's conduct - in particular, the Austrian accession to the EC/EU, the adoption of treaties modifying the functioning of the EU, the Austrian presidencies of the Council of the EU in 1998 and 2006, the European Parliament elections and their representative's activities in the EP, the process of...
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Jörg Haider's impact on the Austrian Free Party (FPÖ)
Floder, Daniel ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Lizcová, Zuzana (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the impact of Jörg Haider on the development and changes of Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) mainly in the time of his chairmanship of the party on the federal level between the years 1986 and 2000, when the small party, troubled by infighting between the German-nationalist and the liberal wing, gradually transformed into a practically unified right-wing populist party. The aim of this thesis is to define the influence Haider had on his party given the party's exponential rise in popularity, a trend that culminated in the federal election of 1999, where the FPÖ won a staggering 26,9 % of votes. The research therefore focuses on Haider's personality and party governance, which includes his way of making decisions within the party, pushing through his ideas, dealing with the opposition of his party colleagues, and, last but not least, his political and ideological directing of the party. Haider's behaviour within the party, and in public, is also analysed in the thesis, with regards to the behaviour of the other members of the FPÖ. The thesis also deals with other time periods of Haider's life and the FPÖ's existence. One of these periods is the time before Haider became the chairman of the FPÖ to bring a better contextualization and understanding of the ideological...
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Jörg Haider and Austria Far Right
Kovářová, Lucie ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Jeřábek, Martin (referee)
The barcherlor thesis "Jörg Haider and austrian far right " deals with the assumptions of political success of Jörg Haider as the leader of Austrian Freedom Party. From 1986 when Haider was elected as chairman to 2000 when the FPÖ became the member of coalition, the election result has been increased from 9,7% to 26,9%. In order to undestand this changing of voter's preferences are concidered the theories of far right and populism. This thesis discusses the assumptions of the political potential for increasing election results of the far right in Austria. There are concidered the facts how has the Austrian society been changed in the last half of the century including the general development in the Western Europe involving the theory of the sillent counter-revolution. There is analysed the role of Haider as the charimatic leader and the development of the austrian far right after his death and points out the topics of continuing populism.
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Jörg Haider's impact on the Austrian Free Party (FPÖ)
Floder, Daniel ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Lizcová, Zuzana (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the impact of Jörg Haider on the development and changes of Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) mainly in the time of his chairmanship of the party on the federal level between the years 1986 and 2000, when the small party, troubled by infighting between the German-nationalist and the liberal wing, gradually transformed into a practically unified right-wing populist party. The aim of this thesis is to define the influence Haider had on his party given the party's exponential rise in popularity, a trend that culminated in the federal election of 1999, where the FPÖ won a staggering 26,9 % of votes. The research therefore focuses on Haider's personality and party governance, which includes his way of making decisions within the party, pushing through his ideas, dealing with the opposition of his party colleagues, and, last but not least, his political and ideological directing of the party. Haider's behaviour within the party, and in public, is also analysed in the thesis, with regards to the behaviour of the other members of the FPÖ. The thesis also deals with other time periods of Haider's life and the FPÖ's existence. One of these periods is the time before Haider became the chairman of the FPÖ to bring a better contextualization and understanding of the ideological...
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Freedom Party of Austria and 1999 Austrian legislative election
HOTOVÝ, Jakub
Bachelor thesis deals with the rise of the Freedom Party of Austria during the 90' of twentieth century, which reached its fever pitch in the National council election 1999, when the party gained its best result in the history and formed a coalition with the Austrian People's Party. The primary aim of the thesis is to analyse the factors, which led to mentioned success of the FPÖ. The first chapter contains circumstances of party's origin; afterwards its development is briefly described until 1986, when charismatic Jörg Haider became the chairman of the party. Especially his populist rhetoric had a strong influence on voter support. The following part occupies with the society transformation in Austria connected with waves of immigration that helped the FPÖ to mobilize mass of voters. The last two chapters have its focus on analysis of the all elections taking place in 1999. Expect the National council election went on also streak of provincial elections and the European parliament election.
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Rise of the FPÖ in the first half of the 90s of 20. century
Hátleová, Tereza ; Konrád, Ota (advisor) ; Kunštát, Miroslav (referee)
Hátleová Abstract Bachelor thesis focuses on the rise of the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs in Austria from the middle of 90s of twentieth century until the National council election in 1994, when the party gained more than 22 percent of the votes. First, the thesis explains partial and political system of the Austria on the basis of the secondary literature. Further, it deals with the concept of Proporz and development of the Freedom party after the Second World War. In the next capture, immigration to Austria and its historical background is covered. Immigration is analyzed as a tool of populist politician Jörg Haider, leader of the Freedom Party. Third part of the thesis identifies Volksbegehren, an unique tool of direct democracy. The study of the Volksbegehren "Austria First" initiated by the Freedom Party connects the topic of immigration and right-wing politics and it serves as an example of reaction of Austrians on the extreme-right propaganda of the Freedom Party. The last part of the thesis searches for the causes of the Freedom Party's success in National council election in 1994.
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Jörg Haider and Austria Far Right
Kovářová, Lucie ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Jeřábek, Martin (referee)
The barcherlor thesis "Jörg Haider and austrian far right " deals with the assumptions of political success of Jörg Haider as the leader of Austrian Freedom Party. From 1986 when Haider was elected as chairman to 2000 when the FPÖ became the member of coalition, the election result has been increased from 9,7% to 26,9%. In order to undestand this changing of voter's preferences are concidered the theories of far right and populism. This thesis discusses the assumptions of the political potential for increasing election results of the far right in Austria. There are concidered the facts how has the Austrian society been changed in the last half of the century including the general development in the Western Europe involving the theory of the sillent counter-revolution. There is analysed the role of Haider as the charimatic leader and the development of the austrian far right after his death and points out the topics of continuing populism.
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Jörg Haider and Austria Far Right
Kovářová, Lucie ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Jeřábek, Martin (referee)
The barcherlor thesis "Jörg Haider and austrian far right " deals with the assumptions of political success of Jörg Haider as the leader of Austrian Freedom Party. From 1986 when Haider was elected as chairman to 2000 when the FPÖ became the member of coalition, the election result has been increased from 9,7% to 26,9%. In order to undestand this changing of voter's preferences are concidered the theories of far right and populism. This thesis discusses the assumptions of the political potential for increasing election results of the far right in Austria. There are concidered the facts how has the Austrian society been changed in the last half of the century including the general development in the Western Europe involving the theory of the sillent counter-revolution. There is analysed the role of Haider as the charimatic leader and the development of the austrian far right after his death and points out the topics of continuing populism.
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Populist and Extreme Right in Contemporary Austria
Černoch, Jakub ; Jeřábek, Martin (advisor) ; Charvát, Jan (referee)
The thesis "Populist and Extreme Right in Contemporary Austria" deals with the two political parties in Austria - FPÖ (Freihetliche Partei Österreichs) and BZÖ (Bündnis Zukunft Österreich) during the time period from 2005 to 2011. The thesis aims to globally introduce contemporary far-right parties with regard to economic, historical, political and ideological causes of their support. The objective of the thesis is also analysis of far-right parties in reference to all-Austrian and regional dimension. This lower dimension is introduced by nine Austrian states (Bundesländer). The thesis also examines influence of electoral and party system on FPÖ and BZÖ. Regarding electoral system and its results (examples include National Council elections in 2006 and 2008 and Landtag elections in years 2008-2010) the thesis analyzes, whether the electoral parameters can affect support and representation of far- right parties. Another objective is classification of these parties and their relation to far-right terms - extremism, populism, neo-Fascism and neo-Nazism. On the basis of examined pieces of knowledge the thesis attempts to sketch the presumptive trends of far-right parties in the following years.
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EU sanctions against Austria in 2000 in the context of the position of Austria in the European Union. Application of the constructivist theory on the case
Dobiašová, Terézia ; Jeřábek, Martin (advisor) ; Moravcová, Dagmar (referee)
diplomové práce v anglickém jazyce: EU sanctions against Austria in 2000 in the context of the position of Austria in the European Union. Application of constructivist theory on the case The Master thesis EU sanctions against Austria in 2000 in the context of the position of Austria in the European Union. Application of constructivist theory on the case tried to analyse the Austrian case from the constructivist perspective. The thesis attempted to verify the hypothesis that the Member States of the European Union wrongly assessed the impact of Haider's FPÖ on the Austrian democratic development and the European Union itself, claiming that the participation of the FPÖ in the Austrian federal government was jeopardizing its democratic values. In fact there was no evidence for this allegation despite the nature of the FPÖ which was confirmed as being far-right in some aspects (for instance its xenophobia). It has been shown that the participation of the FPÖ in the Austrian government (rather than its isolation, which might have led to even bigger support) was in a certain way a guarantee that democracy and the common values of the European Union would be upheld. Furthermore the thesis tried to answer the question whether the inclusion of the FPÖ in the governmental coalition had posed a real danger...
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