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Political Thought of Czechoslovak Dissidents in the Years 1977 - 1993
Švehlová, Veronika ; Halamka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Franěk, Jakub (referee)
The diploma thesis entitled The Political Thought of Czechoslovak Dissidents in the Years 1977 - 1993 examines the political thought of three representatives of Czechoslovak dissent, Rudolf Battek, Václav Havel and Václav Benda. The main aim is to find out whether the Czechoslovak dissent included political thinking and came up with its own constructive theories on the ideal state system or whether it was limited to criticism of the contemporary regime. In terms of methodology, the thesis works with textual analysis of primary sources of three selected dissidents. Based on the textual analysis, it concludes by using a comparative method to compare and integrate the political thought of the selected dissidents with a focus on a better or ideal arrangement of the future state. The thesis concludes that the analyzed representatives of Czechoslovak dissent, in addition to criticizing the regime, also focused on political thinking and searched for a future state organization. Political thought and theories of a successful state were not their primary concern and do not represent a systematic positive theory. Their political thinking was based on their overall philosophical ideas and the context of their critique of the communist regime in contemporary Czechoslovakia. They do not call their ideas...
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Comparative Analysis of Transformational Leadership: Václav Havel and Lee Teng-hui
Chen, Yi Ju ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Hornát, Jan (referee)
In recent years, the relationship between the Czech Republic and Taiwan has been getting closer. The two seemingly distant country however went through similar development at the end of 20th century - democratization. During the process, there are two significant champions of democracy: former president Vaclav Havel and Lee Teng-hui. This thesis will have two main objectives: first, to provide an overview of the lives of Havel and Lee Teng-hui; second, to conduct a comparative analysis of both using the transformational leadership theory to explore whether they align with Bass's definition of a transformational leader.
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Exceeding the powers of the President of the Czech Republic and its effects within the system of separation of powers
Vartazaryan, Gor ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
This thesis analyzes the exceeding of selected presidential powers regarding appointments in the Czech Republic. Included in the analysis were the presidential appointment powers set out in the Constitution, including the appointment of professors and rectors. All controversial cases of appointments from 1993 to 2023 involving Václav Havel, Václav Klaus and Miloš Zeman. The aim of this thesis was to determine whether presidents have exceeded their powers of appointment and in what situations they may have done so. Based on detailed research and analysis, key cases that led to overstepping of powers were identified. The results of this thesis provide insights into how presidential appointment powers are interpreted and how theoretical interpretation intersects with the practice of individual presidents. Keywords President, Czech republic, appointment powers, exceeding the powers of appointment, Václav Havel, Václav Klaus, Miloš Zeman.
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Analysis of discussion topies in the Václav Havel Library in 2012-2021
Šimůnková, Natálie ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
The basic idea of the thesis is to examine the interconnection of the media field and the civic sector on the example of the Václav Havel Library - a public benefit society founded in 2004, which organizes various seminars, readings, exhibitions, lectures, debates, concerts and theatre performances. The theoretical part deals with the basic concepts of journalism and civil society, while its second section explains the specificities of the civil sector emerging from the dissident environment in the Visegrad countries. The environment of dissent also formed a significant part of the life of Václav Havel, who became a symbol of civic engagement worldwide, and the Václav Havel Library now preserves his literary, dramatic, dissident and political legacy. The ambition of this thesis is to introduce the public to the Library's production and compare its real programme schema with its media image, to reveal which programmes of the Václav Havel Library came through the media gates in 2012 and 2022, to identify the most media successful programmes and to interpret the results. The Václav Havel Library invests time and effort in promoting its productions, using its own online television channel, the Havel Channel, and establishing collaborations with media houses, which allows it to become part of the...
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Exceeding the powers of the President of the Czech Republic and its effects within the system of separation of powers
Vartazaryan, Gor ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
This thesis analyzes the exceeding of selected presidential powers regarding appointments in the Czech Republic. Included in the analysis were the presidential appointment powers set out in the Constitution, including the appointment of professors and rectors. All controversial cases of appointments from 1993 to 2023 involving Václav Havel, Václav Klaus and Miloš Zeman. The aim of this thesis was to determine whether presidents have exceeded their powers of appointment and in what situations they may have done so. Based on detailed research and analysis, key cases that led to overstepping of powers were identified. The results of this thesis provide insights into how presidential appointment powers are interpreted and how theoretical interpretation intersects with the practice of individual presidents. Keywords President, Czech republic, appointment powers, exceeding the powers of appointment, Václav Havel, Václav Klaus, Miloš Zeman.
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The image of Václav Havel in the broadcast of Radio Free Europe between 1987-1989
Mrázková, Eva ; Lovaš, Karol (advisor) ; Gulda, Jana (referee)
The aim of this paper is to examine in which context and which way did Czechoslovak editorial office refer about Václav Havel, particularly in the broadcast of Události a názory, the main opinion journalism part of the broadcast. The content analysis of archive materials has been used in order to answer the main research questions. The examined material included the written form of the broadcast of Události a názory between 1987 and 1989. The paper is divided into two parts, a practical and a theoretical one. At first the overview of the literature and the academic discourse about Václav Havel and Czechoslovak broadcast of the Radio Free Europe is introduced, followed by the overview of the historical context of the late 1980s with the focus on the United States, the Soviet Union and its satellites. The next chapter discusses the historical context of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s with the emphasis on the activities of dissent and chosen events mentioned also in the broadcast of Události a názory while referring about Václav Havel. In the following chapter the person of Václav Havel is introduced. The last chapter of the theoretical part is dedicated to the broadcast of Radio Free Europe, particularly on its Czechoslovak editorial office. The examined archive content and the conclusions based on the...
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The media image of Václav Havel in broadsheet and tabloid press
Marková, Tanja ; Klimeš, David (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
The thesis titled "Media image of Václav Havel in the Quality and Tabloid Press" analyzes and interprets selected texts about the first Czech President Václav Havel in quality (Mladá fronta DNES) and tabloid (Blesk) press during a selected period. The aim of this thesis is to answer research questions as how the selected press informed about V. Havel during the selected periods, what image of V. Havel was created in the selected press during the selected period, and whether quality press experienced tabloidization. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part describes the characteristics of quality and tabloid press and the process of tabloidization. It also introduces theoretical concepts that this thesis is based on, such as agenda-setting, gatekeeping, and social construction of reality. To provide a more comprehensive picture of Vaclav Havel's life, there is one chapter dedicated to him in the theoretical part. The practical part introduces the analysis method, followed by its procedure and results. Quantitative content analysis showed that more information about V. Havel was reported in the selected serious daily newspaper Mladá fronta DNES than in the selected tabloid daily newspaper Blesk. The explanation for this phenomenon may be that quality press...
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Sametová revoluce v dnešním kurikulu základní školy
NEKOLOVÁ, Lucie
The subject of this thesis was the Velvet Revolution in the contemporary Czech primary school curriculum. I dealt with the analysis of textbooks of history and civics and their subsequent comparison in regard to their approach to the topic of the Velvet Revolution. In the theoretical part, I focused on the objective analysis of the Velvet Revolution and events that preceded the revolution as well as those that accompanied the emergence of a new democratic Czechoslovakia. Nor did I neglect to include the notable personalities of this period and oppositional activities connected with the Velvet Revolution. In the practical part I proceeded to carry out an analysis of textbooks. For each subject I chose textbooks from three publishers. First, I did a comprehensive analysis of the textbooks and then dealt with the Velvet Revolution. In history classes, students only study this subject in the 9th grade. Therefore, I exclusively analyzed these textbooks. History textbooks accord the topic a different number of pages as well as an unequal number of accompanying images. Also, information varies about the key figures associated with the Velvet Revolution. Civics textbooks do not contain a separate chapter dealing with this topic. I had to look at the textbooks for the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grade, and search for the information associated with the period. The information presented to students varies from grade to grade and by publisher. Finally, I carried out a comparison of the textbooks of civics and history.
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Václav Havel in Czech News Agency reports after 2011
Svobodová, Věra ; Trunečková, Ludmila (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
This diploma thesis maps the media interest in former president Václav Havel by the Czech News Agency during the 10 years following his death in December 2011. It focuses not only on the number of reports, but also compares the individual years with regard to what events influence the number of reports that mention the former president. Using full-text searches in the Czech News Agency's Infobank, metadata codes used by the agency to classify news, and quantitative content analysis with the addition of evaluative elements, the paper tracks which topics most frequently appear in the agency's text service in connection with Václav Havel, whether the president is the main actor in the news, or what the tonality of news texts is in relation to him. The theoretical part defines the basic concepts and theories related to the social and media construction of reality, media image and media logic. The contextual part introduces in rough outlines the personality of Václav Havel. The methodological part deals with the specifics of the news text service offered by Czech News Agency and presents the research methods used. The research part presents the results of the analysis. These show that the number of news items mentioning Havel does not tend to decrease over time, but responds to events in society. The...
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The analysis of New Year's and Christmas speeches of the three prezidents of the Czech republic (1994-2021)
Kružíková, Kateřina ; Jirků, Jan (advisor) ; Čeňková, Jana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the written form of New Year's and Christmas speeches of the three presidents of the Czech Republic, i.e., Václav Havel (speeches from years 1994- 2003), Václav Klaus (speeches from years 2004-2013) and Miloš Zeman (speeches from years 2013-2021). The thesis will set the speeches in the context of the lives of the presidents, analyze them from a linguistic, semiotic, and content perspective, and will compare them with each other. The thesis will focus on the topics the presidents raise, as well as potential elements of influencing public opinion. In the framework of the analysis, the thesis will consider the response of the media to the speeches. The aim of the thesis is on one hand to determine how the personalities and life experiences of statesmen influence the creation of their speeches, and on the other to contribute to a deeper understanding of the presidential office and to explore its evolution throughout the thirty years of the existence of the independent Czech Republic.
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