Direct presidential election is a new phenomenon in Czech Republic which brought a challenge for political marketing. There was no previous experience with presidential campaigns and therefore there were a number of expectations how the candidates are going to carry out the campaigns. The thesis focuses on the election campaigns of individual candidates for Czech president in 2013. On a basis of the theoretical framework is an ambition of the thesis to analyze and compare the campaigns and subsequently to evaluate whether they have played an important role in the election, influenced voters' decisions and election results

The submitted thesis "Political marketing in the Czech Republic: comparison of application of political marketing on municipal and senate elections in 2014 " concentrates on the analysis of application of political marketing on municipal and senate election campaigns in 2014. The thesis analyses in detail the tools that were used in campaigns. The first chapter defines the theory and origins of political marketing. The second chapter concentrates on tools, strategies and new ways of using political marketing. The third chapter introduces the term permanent campaign and its effects on growing professionalism in election campaigns. In the fourth chapter author presents researched political subjects and the last chapter analyses the election campaigns.

El objetivo principal del estudio es analizar la construcción de la marca de outsider del candidato a la presidencia del Perú Julio Guzmán como estrategia para consolidar la imagen de un líder político. Los líderes políticos deben tener en cuenta que la imagen personal no solo transmite mensajes, sino que también influye en las emociones del público. Este artículo se propone explicar la importancia de la creación de una marca como una estrategia dentro de los escenarios de la comunicación política. Asimismo, la presente investigación resalta el valor de la marca personal de un líder político y demuestra que ésta puede generar una identificación con el público, siendo capaz de transmitir ideas y emociones que ayudan a influir en el electorado. Con ayuda de un análisis cualitativo esta investigación se propuso demostrar la existencia de una relación entre la marca personal de outsider creada por Julio Guzmán y su plan comunicacional a través de la comunicación no verbal a la hora de transmitir su mensaje político. / The main objective of the study is to analyze the construction of the brand outside the candidate for the presidency of Peru Julio Guzmán as a strategy to consolidate the image of a political leader. Political leaders must keep in mind that the personal image not only transmits messages, but also influences the emotions of the public. This article aims to explain the importance of creating a brand as a strategy within the scenarios of political communication. Likewise, this research highlights the value of the personal brand of a political leader and demonstrates that it can generate an identification with the public, being able to convey ideas and emotions that help influence the electorate. With the help of a qualitative analysis, this research aimed to demonstrate the existence of a relationship between the personal brand outside created by Julio Guzmán and his communication plan through non-verbal communication when transmitting his political message. / Tesis

This diploma thesis is a case study of the town Litvínov from which the author comes from. It analyses the use of political marketing in the party election campaigns, which is described in detail and applied through the Lees-Marshment's theory with the help of semi-structured interviews, questionnaire surveys, mapping of programs and Codes of Conduct. The expected result of the thesis is not only the analysis of the municipal pre-election campaigns of the individual candidate parties using the Lees-Marshment theory, but also critical evaluation of this theory applied within the municipal politics. The partial objective is to compare the use of marketing of regional and national candidate parties within the municipal politics. It is not only a description of this theory, but also an evaluation of the theory suitability on the municipal level. The conclusions point to the fact that political marketing plays a certain role at the municipal level, but the degree of its use is much lower than on the national level.

The thesis deals with elderly people as voters and their attitudes towards slogans about social security. It examines electoral behaviour and preferences of elderly people and the influence od age on their voting decisions. Part of the thesis is devoted to the slogans od political parties, which are an important part of the campaigns and provides an comparison of election programes of parties in context of social security. The aim of the empirical work was to ascertain the views and attitudes of elderly people to particular slogans about social securities used in election campaign to the Chamber of Deputies in 2010.

This study deals with the Election Campaign in the Czech Republic in a second-order elections during a year 2008 and the study is investigating the degree how many Election Campaigns were professional. The main aim of this study is a description of process of the Election Campaign and the study was checking up which political marketing is using in a second-order elections.

The subject of this diploma thesis is the usage of elements of political marketing in the Czech presidential campaign 2012/2013. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on the general development of political communication and election campaigns, the principles considering the performing of political marketing, the basic formulas of voters' decision-making and models of coordinated behavior of the electorate and political representatives depending on the strategic effects of electoral systems. In a subsequent analysis of the election campaigns of selected presidential candidates - Miloš Zeman, Karel Schwarzenberg, Jan Fischer and Jiří Dienstbier - is monitored, how and under what circumstances the advancement of political marketing is applied, whether the candidates and their election team incorporate the assumed strategic effects of the election system into the planning process and implementation of election campaigns, hence if and how the campaign considers the voters' experienced ideas about the head of the state.

This thesis is focused on the impact of media literacy in terms of the ability of high school students to interpret political advertisement. In the part of this thesis the reader will be introduced into the concepts of modern democracy and mass media as its important part especially, within the context of politics, in the pre-election period. The reader will be provided an insight into the issue of the influence of mass media on citizens who are exposed to the products of political marketing. Due to the focus on high school students, this thesis mentions research domestic one as well as international that puts together terms as politics- media-teenagers. The second part of this thesis is designed as a research aimed at the impact of media literacy on the students' skills to analyze a political advertisement as well as their civic attitudes. The research is conducted as a qualitative comparison of statements of the analytical abilities of students who took part in media literacy course with those who did not. Key terms: democracy, elections, political campaign, political marketing, political advertisement, media, mass media, media literacy, high school education

The thesis "Political image of emerging politicians and media they use to build their image" examines the reationship of young aspiring politicians to the topic of political image. The main objective of this thesis is to examine the relationship of young aspiring politicians to political image and whether they are actively seeking to build their own political image. Young aspiring politicians are defined for purposes of this thesis as members of youth political organizations Young Social Democrats and Young Conservatives over 18 years old. The first part of this thesis summarizes theoretical findings on the issue of political image in terms of political marketing and political communication and defines political youth organizations and describes their function in relation to society and political parties. The second part of this thesis examines the relationship of young aspiring politicians to political image through qualitative research using semi-structured interviews as research tool.

This thesis deals with humour on Facebook, I examine the themes and practices of humorous posts that are related to the direct election of the President of the Czech Republic,in particular to the two candidates who got into the second round of presidential elections, Karel Schwarzenberg and Miloš Zeman. In the theoretical part I introduce humour from a theoretical point of view. I identify three central theories, types of jokes and function of laugh. In subsequent chapters I define the basic assumptions that lead to the involvement of fans in the creation of online posts, which can circulate through social networks. I present new tools in online political marketing and summarize the basic topics of the official campaigns of both candidates. In the practical part I analyze, using the grounded theory, how and why Facebook users worked with humour in posts which respond to the presidential election. The material which was searched, can be described as illustrated jokes, photos with or without text, collages, comics or cartoons from official and unofficial Facebook pages of both candidates. The research showed that humour had primarily negative role during the campaign. Humour was a tool to defame and ridicule the candidate, jokes showed his shortcomings. It also warned voters what could happen in the...