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Phenomenon of homelessness in contemporary Czech society in confrontation with situation and approach in EU
Vízek, Martin ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Angelovská, Olga (referee)
The aim of this thesis is an analysis of aspects of establishment of publicly political issue of homelessness in contemporary Czech society. It focuses in particular on the analysis of the dimension of the selected issue and on detecting and defining of various resolution examples applied to homelessness within the framework of the Czech Republic and European Union. It attempts to survey the contemporary homelessness situation in the Czech Republic by means of methods selected from the sphere of public politics from the perspective of experts, general public as well as the perspective of the people without shelter themselves by means of registration of their individual stories acquired by direct questioning. One of the substantial components of the thesis comprises the delimitation and definition of the cognitive problem which constitutes the initial stage for the comprehension of surveyed issue and implementation of the analysis from the perspective of public politics. The thesis focuses in particular on the issue of homelessness in the Czech Republic and on the aspects closely connected with the phenomenon, which reflects in the mirror of public politics at most.
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Suburbanization in Central Bohemia Region and its impact on health
Majerová, Vendula ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Kružík, Lubomír (referee)
The main objective of diploma thesis "Suburbanization in Central Bohemia Region and its impact on health" is research of non-coordinated suburbanization in Central Bohemia Region and its relation to health of inhabitants. There is used an appropriate combination of research methods according to the research objectives and questions (mental maps, actor analysis, public policy analysis, comparation, interviews). It enables understanding of all aspects of thesuburbanization process. Many theoretical concepts are used, eg. determinants of health, urbanism, sustainable development, quality of life or social transformation. The first part of diploma thesis presents health problems caused by urban sprawl. These problems are related to air quality, physical activity, traffic, water quantity and quality, mental health, social capital and health of special populations. Inguiry identifies roles, interests and behaviour of relevant actors. It proves that current suburbanization of Central Bohemia Region, similar to urban sprawl, may influence health and quality of life of its inhabitants, and brings many negative externalities. Incrementakl knowledge development and pressure of the European Union leads to changes in public policy and legislation, which was influenced with social transformation and impact on...
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Careers Precipitated and Shaped by the Velvet Revolution: An Oral-Historical Analysis of lndividuals
Lizatović, Yvetta ; Houda, Přemysl (advisor) ; Wohlmuth, Petr (referee)
The work examines and compares personal values, behavioural patterns, personal motivation and career choices of six individuals from the Velvet Revolution period using interviews obtained by the oral-historical method. The main aim is to answer the question where people who helped transform one regime into another had come from and how they coped with tasks they could not have been prepared for in advance. In late 1989, the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia collapsed. One way of running the society was quickly replaced by another, but the society did not collapse, and life went pretty smoothly on. All of a sudden, many opportunities opened up as well as many responsibilities to generations of people who could not have been prepared to take either of them. Yet at least some of them did so. How did they manage? Keywords Czechoslovak society 1989-1992, career decision-making, Velvet revolution of 1989, network of social acquaintances, transformation of society
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Popularity elements of direct democracy among citizens and political parties in Western Europe
Lanči, Pavel ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Stauber, Jakub (referee)
The diploma thesis investigates somewhat overlooked development of the West European societies and attitudes of citizens and political parties towards direct democracy. In the Western Europe (and not only there), we observe substantial questioning of the delegation of power principle, thereupon large part of citizenry is asking for more decision-making powers, most often direct democracy instruments. The support for direct democracy could be coming from the educated and politically active (cognitive mobilization hypothesis) as well as the alienated and politically disaffected (political disaffection hypothesis) citizens. The diploma thesis presupposes that this popular demand is reflected mostly by the novel parties which try to weaken the standings of the traditional parties - i. e. the novel parties support and offer the implementation of the direct democracy mechanisms more than the traditional ones. The breakthrough of the direct democracy techniques would empower the voters - the judges in the Schumpeterian/Popperian conception of democracy - in the face of the political subjects, while this empowerement would carry along far- reaching consequences for the central research areas of the political science, namely the study of the organizational development of political parties. In this thesis,...
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