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Relation between Economic Situation and Political Stability
JAKLOVÁ, Kamila
The political parties use the economic situation of the state as one of their arguments in their electoral strategy. The aim of the thesis is to depict the impact of the economic situation in selected European countries on voters' decision making. Selected economic indicators, such as gross domestic product, unemployment, inflation, tax on personal income, balance of trade and debt are compared with the impact on voters' decision making in these countries with the application of Logistic Regression. This method determines the degree of impact of individual economic indicators on the political stability of selected countries. The data used in this work are based on the publicly available database of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in years 2007-2017. The result of the analysis determines appropriate economic indicators for political election strategies.
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Symmetrical Concept of the State
Gregárek, Matěj ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Maršálek, Pavel (referee) ; Sobek, Tomáš (referee)
Symmetrical Concept of the State Abstract: The doctoral thesis uses the perspective of Public Choice (political economy) on a descriptive level and the perspective of philosophical anarchism on a normative level to critically assess the concept of modern state (and its crises and legitimacy), as it is used in Staatswissenschaften and political philosophy. Common theme of both paradigms is insistence on symmetry of assumptions when analyzing the state; particularities of the state, as compared to other social institutions, do not play the role of explanans, but that of explanandum. Traditional concepts of political philosophy (sovereignty, will of the people, legitimacy) are consistently put in the context of the general social phenomena, from which they are (or should be) derived. The symmetrical approach asserts itself primarily against the fictional nature of some political concepts; in this thesis, fictional concepts are approached as assumptions of a "political model" and their unrealistic nature is not seen problematic so far as they stay within the model. However, at the same time, the question about the external (normative and practical) relevance (validity) of such a model arises. First part of the thesis argues for applicability - and in fact, indispensability - of the economic toolkit...
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White collar revisited - Millsean theory on impact of bureaucratization on social and economic development of western societies
Hampl, Petr ; Vlček, Josef (advisor) ; Matějů, Petr (referee) ; Žák, Milan (referee)
The first part of this thesis sums up ideas, which the author had published in his essays. These ideas are mostly focused on the relationship between the class structure of current western societies and economic policy preferred by the governments. The next part is dedicated to Charles Wright Mills, his sociological method, his contribution to sociology of 50th as well as his heritage for current sociological thinking. Three idea streams, which can be used for supplementing Mills' point of view, are explained: public choice economy (mainly its version of Gordon Tullock), new class theory and theory of business innovation. New typology of business innovation is developed in this part. The core of this thesis consist in discussion of Mills' propositions about the growth of bureaucratic organizations, birth of white collars as a massive social class and its impact on social structure, economic development and political development of western societies. Mills conclusions are looked on in the light of socioeconomic development during 60 years since the first publishing of White collar. They are also compared with key finding of idea streams mentioned above. Theory of impact of growth of big bureaucracy on economic and political development is formulated that specifies and supplement Mills' theory. The...
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Democratic legitimacy of politics: competence to suffrage and logic of election
Vorlíček, Jan ; Buben, Radek (advisor) ; Znoj, Milan (referee)
The aim of this study is to analyze legitimacy of policy. Its fulfillment should emerge from detailed inquiry of the essential sense of social institutions. The work is divided into three chapters therefore. The first chapter deals with law as a basic system of order of social relations. It explains its fundamental social goal (reducing transaction costs of social action) and its influence on the development of civilization. It discusses in detail the property rights as a fundament of any real legal system - both at the legal level and economic level (i.e. how the system of property rights coordinates social activities and allocates scarce resources, how it creates the elite, and when there is a fault efficiency of this process). The second chapter deals with the social obligations which are necessary condition for preservation of law. These obligations are labeled as taxes (as opposed to tributes that basis is not in the obligation to maintain the legal system and are only ransom inherently). Particular attention is paid to the fair distribution of these obligations (tax justice) and also to the impact of taxation on the development of civilization. The last (third) chapter deals with institutional framework of society, i.e. the exercise of public power and public administration (government...
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CSR as an effective tool in (not only) environmental issues
Škarda, Jakub ; Slavík, Jan (advisor) ; Vejchodská, Eliška (referee)
Diploma thesis is aimed on theoretical analyse of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and shows how it works in real life. Results of my study case (Patagonia) illustrate, that if the firms deal with the CSR in appropriate way, it can help to improve economic situation of the firm, it can also find some solutions in environmental crisis and improve social life of communities as well. This voluntary, inexpensive and effective instrument is compared with actions of public sphere in environmental protection. I analysed risks and cost efficiency of Kyoto protocol and biofuels and my results are, that these public actions on supranational level are costly, sometimes even purposeless, ineffective and risky from the point of view of economic school Public Choice.
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Socio-economic aspects in the programs of the parliamentary political parties
Bandasová, Jana ; Izák, Vratislav (advisor) ; Blažek, Petr (referee)
This bachelor work deals with socio-economic aspects of the parliamentary political parties before elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic in June 2010. Based on the analysis of selected socio-economic aspects was carried out the comparison of these aspects, both in the relationship between the parties of the right political spectrum and left political spectrum. In this work were used structural elements of Public Choice Theory, focusing on the median voter. Delimitation of the definition of the median voter results from public choice theory. Through the identification and classification into a specific position in the political spectrum was made an attempt at the practical application of Public Choice Theory. Based on the available data and information this attempt can be considered certain objective findings.
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An economic analysis of selected pre-election promises of 2006 and their impact on public spending
Zámorský, Tomáš ; Písař, Pavel (advisor) ; Ryvolová, Ivana (referee)
My thesis consernes with election promises analysis, which are part of every pre-election campaign. The aim is to verify the fact, that many of these promises is not, because of financial reasons, possible to realize. I focus on two known political parties: ODS and ČSSD. I make a comparision between real and hypothetic postures of state budgets, which will come, if the surveyed promises will come valid. Through this analysis I try to verify the political business cycle theory, that speaks about inadequate government expenditures in the election time and their impact on next years. The main idea of my thesis should be, that politics becomes nowadays a business, when politicians "buys" votes, to get to their prospective professions. No less important idea is, that nationals should not trust visible and grand gestures. They should follow their own intellect and see even that, what is not so visible.
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Cost-Benefit analysis of Public Projects
Paleček, Václav ; Toth, Petr (advisor) ; Jílek, Petr (referee)
Public projects are still subject of heated discussions, especially with the respect to their efficiency that is usually not sufficient enough. In spite of existence of many ways how to increase their efficiency, it is readily possible to identify one fundamental criterion which is high-quality information for decision-making. It is important to deliver high-quality information to those who make decision in order to reduce wastage of the public funds on not efficient public projects. All substantial information about effects incurred by project's realization can be offered by the Cost-Benefit analysis. The Cost Benefit analysis should be prepared for each significant public project to prevent from realization of ineffective ones. It is essential to process each Cost-Benefit analysis in required qualitative level for making right decision. Purpose of this thesis is appraisal of usefulness of the Cost-Benefit analysis for specific purposes of the public sector and assessment of indexes used in the Analysis. In the thesis will be introduced public projects, related public sector and evaluation of public projects. Subsequently, the Cost-Benefit analysis itself will be presented as well as steps for processing high-quality Cost-Benefit analysis. The emphasis will be focused at discount rate and its determination, since I consider it as the critical issue of the Cost-Benefit analysis. A practical example of the Cost-Benefit analysis will be presented at the end of this thesis.
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