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Church views on euthanasia in the Czech Republic
Mlýnková, Kristýna ; Vogel, Jiří (advisor) ; Veverková, Kamila (referee)
This Master's thesis named "Approaches of Czech Churches towards Euthanasia" studies the topic of euthanasia through position papers of four selected churches active in the Czech Republic. The four examined churches are Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, and Czechoslovak Hussite Church whereas documents published by ecumenical panels are studied as well. The goal of the thesis is to create a statement overview of these four churches. First, the work introduces the topic itself, explains basic terms and development of different approaches. Second, it analyses position papers of examined churches which are subsequently compared in order to find the aspects which are common to the all four churches.
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The way to the provisional arrangement in Bonn. The selection process of the capital in FRG (1948-1949)
Filipová, Markéta ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Picka, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis deals with issues concerning national capitals and examines crucial factors for their choice. Usually, the capital is seen not only as an administrative centre, but it also plays a vital role for both the society's development and an individual's identity. The Federal Republic of Germany is specific in the European context. Its center is not historically rooted and was repeatedly moved according to regime changes. This applies also for the considered situation after the World War II. Disputes between the occupation powers resulted in the formation of two individual states with West Berlin being an isolated island surrounded by East Germany. A provincial city of Bonn was chosen to serve as a temporary seat of the West German government, while favored Frankfurt am Main surprisingly failed to qualify. The objective of this case study is to scrutinize whether it was a decision determined by external geographic factors, an internally motivated political plan, or a mere coincidence. The answer is based on a thorough analysis of arguments and motivations of the main players. It tracks the development of the whole process especially focusing on the period 1948-1949 while searching for its milestones. The fact that Bonn was able to provide all the desired prerequisites appears to be crucial. Due...
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The German Hauptstadtfrage Bonn versus Berlin : The Decision about the Government and Parliament Seat of the Re-United Germany
Báčová, Tereza ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mynaříková, Romana (referee)
The conflicted question of German political capital has been discussed on numerous times. Its most dramatic time came when it got bound by the ideological and territorial turmoils during the Cold War era of the 20th century. Nevertheless, it was the end of iron-separated country and its reunification in 1990 which reignited the topic and forced Germany to make this essential decision about its metropolis and soon to be the seat of the government for good. Presented thesis "Die deutsche Hauptstadtfrage Bonn versus Berlin; Der Beschluss über den Regierungs- und Parlamentssitz des vereinten Deutschlands" deals with this German inner political debate about the political capital in its so far the last stage, where two candidates Bonn and Berlin had a run for it. The perspective of gradual evolution of the debate from its beginning in year 1989 is used to clarify the final decision and a vote to make Berlin the capital city as well as the seat of the united government and the parliament. Thesis concludes, that there was a number of crucial factors which played their part even prior to the vote for Berlin (Unification Agreement, political power of some prominent politicians, compromise bill of the Berlin Party etc.) as well as it was the very strong rhetorical, argumentative and emotional power shown by Berlin's...
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The Influence of Asylum Discussion on Attacks against Immigrants in Federal Republic Germany in the Years 1992 - 1993: Cases Mölln und Solingen
Judová, Kateřina ; Dimitrov, Michal (advisor) ; Janura, Lukáš (referee)
The wave of attacks against national minorities in the Federal Republic of Germany in the first years after The German reunification in 1990 became on the background of asylum debate discussing the necessary change of asylum right and influx of asylum seekers became a burning problem. The culmination of moods against migrants was the attack in Mölln in November 1992, where were 3 persons of Turkish origin killed. The reactions were massive demonstrations all over Germany and finally an effort of political parties to give in their strict attitudes and agree on the amendment of asylum right. On 6th December 1992 CDU/CSU and SPD agreed on so called Asylkompromiss that should stop the influx of asylum seekers but still should keep the right of asylum and from that almost all the parties expected the end of the aggression against immigrants. The amendment of law was passed in German Bundestag on 26th May 1993and came into force on 1st July 1993. However the approved restriction of gaining the asylum didn't discourage the right-wing extremists and before coming into force they committed one of the most terrific arson attacks in Solingen on 29th Mai 1993, which entered in the German post-war history as the one with the most victims at all. The thesis comes to the conclusion that the influence of media had...
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Globalization: From Unknown to Known? An Analysis of the Academic Debate about the Concept
Chaloupková, Barbora ; Fiřtová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Hornát, Jan (referee)
Globalization is a concept that manages to attract both academic and mainstream attention and it became an important reference point of many contemporary conversations. However, there is a surprisingly little genealogical research on globalization. This thesis seeks to contribute in this area by analyzing part of the overall academic debate about this concept from the year 1990 to 2012 and by reconstructing the debates and arguments through which the concept was shaped. It breaks the chosen time frame in two periods (1990-2000 and 2001-2012) and conducts a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the debate in four leading academic journals, each of them grounded in different discipline. The thesis finds that key reference points of the debates about globalization in both periods of the time were the terms market and state and the relationship between them. Globalization as a phenomenon that was said to alter the nature of this relationship posed a particular challenge to social science paradigms that operated with state-centered frameworks. The key dimension in which globalization was discussed the most was in both periods the economic one; however, we also saw a rise of social dimension in the second period indicating a shift in attention beyond the economics. Furthermore, this work finds that...
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Analysis of Approaches to Migration in Televised Debates on British Membership in the European Union
Wygrysová, Dominika ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Bauer, Paul (referee)
In 2016, the Great Britain became the first Member State to organize a referendum about its membership in the European Union, which led to the decision to leave it. In the much controversial campaign, which led to the vote itself, the media identified three key issues off the Membership debate: the EU economy, immigration to the Great Britain and the position of the country in the world. The media also tent to describe the debate as "filthy". One of the unusual and horrifying factors were death threats to few of the political actors, as well as assassination of the Labour politician Jo Cox. Given the context, out of the three key issues, the immigration became the most controversial one, especially because of the actions of the UKIP party. Their than chairman Nigel Farage was eager to take pictures in front of two billboards they've put up - one of which captured thousands of refugees waiting on the borders, the other one implying more than 1 million Turks could enter the country in the near future. Both of those billboards were put up to stir the fear of the migration in the country. This paper concludes of different approaches to immigration presented by the both political camps - "Leave" and "Remain". Based on the analysis of the transcripts of the eleven televised debates it describes key...
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Development of political broadcasted on ČT in the period from 1989 to the present
Voříšek, Jakub ; Železný, Jakub (advisor) ; Trampota, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to map and describe changes that have taken place in the field of political debates on the Czech Television (in the period from 1989 to the present). The work describes changes regarding the form and the content of programs and its debates. There also appears a critical assessment of that development (and of some prevailing trend) of the political issue programs (on Czech TV) development in the thesis. The first research question relates to the assumpiton that a given period occured significant changes in the form and content of the broadcasted. Description of those changes is the main aim. The second question 1 relates to the assumption that the applied media-scientific theories are applicable to the issue of television political debate. The author proceeds in five steps. First, the introduction sets the theme in context, mentions a historical overview of political discussion programs broadcasted on Czech Television (from 1989 to the present) and consequently characterizes them. The first chapter will bring the presentation of the works from the field of political science and media- science, which will serve as a theoretical guide in analyzing the contents. The second chapter brings the key analysis of the programs using the theory and designed methodology. The third chapter...
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Development of political broadcasted on ČT in the period from 1989 to the present
Voříšek, Jakub ; Železný, Jakub (advisor) ; Trampota, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to map and describe changes that have taken place in the field of political debates on the Czech Television (in the period from 1989 to the present). The work describes changes regarding the form and the content of programs and its debates. There also appears a critical assessment of that development (and of some prevailing trend) of the political issue programs (on Czech TV) in the thesis. Hypothesis relates to the assumpiton that a given period occured significant changes in the form and content of the broadcasted. Description of those changes is the main aim. The author proceeds in five steps. First, the introduction sets the theme in context, mentions a historical overview of political discussion programs broadcasted on Czech Television (from 1989 to the present) and consequently characterizes them. The first chapter will bring the presentation of the works from the field of political science and media- science, which will serve as a theoretical guide in analyzing the contents. The second chapter brings the key analysis of the programs using the theory and designed methodology. The third chapter evaluates the analysis, summarizes the empirically observed data and confirms or rejects the hypothesis. The thesis is closed by the fifth part, in which the author performes the final...
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The way to the provisional arrangement in Bonn. The selection process of the capital in FRG (1948-1949)
Filipová, Markéta ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Picka, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis deals with issues concerning national capitals and examines crucial factors for their choice. Usually, the capital is seen not only as an administrative centre, but it also plays a vital role for both the society's development and an individual's identity. The Federal Republic of Germany is specific in the European context. Its center is not historically rooted and was repeatedly moved according to regime changes. This applies also for the considered situation after the World War II. Disputes between the occupation powers resulted in the formation of two individual states with West Berlin being an isolated island surrounded by East Germany. A provincial city of Bonn was chosen to serve as a temporary seat of the West German government, while favored Frankfurt am Main surprisingly failed to qualify. The objective of this case study is to scrutinize whether it was a decision determined by external geographic factors, an internally motivated political plan, or a mere coincidence. The answer is based on a thorough analysis of arguments and motivations of the main players. It tracks the development of the whole process especially focusing on the period 1948-1949 while searching for its milestones. The fact that Bonn was able to provide all the desired prerequisites appears to be crucial. Due...
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The Influence of Asylum Discussion on Attacks against Immigrants in Federal Republic Germany in the Years 1992 - 1993: Cases Mölln und Solingen
Judová, Kateřina ; Dimitrov, Michal (advisor) ; Janura, Lukáš (referee)
The wave of attacks against national minorities in the Federal Republic of Germany in the first years after The German reunification in 1990 became on the background of asylum debate discussing the necessary change of asylum right and influx of asylum seekers became a burning problem. The culmination of moods against migrants was the attack in Mölln in November 1992, where were 3 persons of Turkish origin killed. The reactions were massive demonstrations all over Germany and finally an effort of political parties to give in their strict attitudes and agree on the amendment of asylum right. On 6th December 1992 CDU/CSU and SPD agreed on so called Asylkompromiss that should stop the influx of asylum seekers but still should keep the right of asylum and from that almost all the parties expected the end of the aggression against immigrants. The amendment of law was passed in German Bundestag on 26th May 1993and came into force on 1st July 1993. However the approved restriction of gaining the asylum didn't discourage the right-wing extremists and before coming into force they committed one of the most terrific arson attacks in Solingen on 29th Mai 1993, which entered in the German post-war history as the one with the most victims at all. The thesis comes to the conclusion that the influence of media had...
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