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The Temptation of illiberal democracy in the postcommunist Europe
Ščeblykin, Kirill ; Pithart, Petr (advisor) ; Ondřejková, Jana (referee)
The temptation of illiberal democracy in the postcommunist Europe Abstract This thesis deals with the concept of illiberal democracy. In the first half it sums up the debate from which the concept arose. It describes the difference between liberalism and democracy and it also explains how these two concepts are interconnected. It describes the concept of defective democracies as conceived by Wolfgang Merkel. I also outline the constitutional aspects of the debate about illiberal democracy. In the second half the text applies Merkel's theoretical framework to analyse the cases of Poland and Hungary. The period of time, that was chosen, starts with the moment when parties Law and Justice and Fidesz gained majorities large enough for profound institutional changes. The period ends with activation of article 7 of the Treaty on European union. The text follows the structure of the Merkel's criteria. It analyses, how the voting rights and free access to power were preserved in both countries, if the political decisions are taken by elected representants, if there is a mutual control between the institutions and to what degree can the state power intervene into the private sphere of the citizens. I conclude that both Poland and Hungary could not be called liberal democracies in the period under review. The Polish...
Defective Democracies in Latin America
Lacinová, Radka ; Kučera, Rudolf (advisor) ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (referee)
Bakalářská práce Defektní demokracie v Latinské Americe Abstract The bachelor thesis "Defective democracies in Latin America" is focused on the theory concerning issue of defective democracies presented by Wolfgang Merkel. In the theoretical part there are introduced the common grounds of defective democracies, causes of their emergence and three main types of defective democracies which were defined by Merkel. These three types are namely exclusive, domain and illiberal democracies that can be classified according to an evaluation of six criteria defined by Merkel. In addition Wolfgang Merkel and Aurel Croissant considered the prospects and they outlined three distinct scenarios of the foreseeable future, namely the regressive scenario, the stability scenario and the progression scenario. In following sections there is analysed the specific case of Latin American country, Chile. The main aim of this thesis is to assess the statement that a development of Chile towards the defective democracy was predetermined by historical assumptions. Therefore, in the second section there is described the Chilean history from the declaration of independence to the present. Consequently, the case of Chile in 1990s is analysed by the application of Merkel's criteria and the result is a classification of Chile as an domain...

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