This thesis is divided into several sections the first section deals with aggregate data about the amount, dynamic and structure of municipal expenditures and the second section is focused on determinants which influence the amount and dynamic of municipal expenditures. In this thesis there is operated with data from years 2001-2013. In the first part of practical part there were used all municipalities which existed in 2001-2013; in the second part there were used 6 236 municipalities in the Czech Republic. Expenditures were grouped into several expenditure areas according to types and then also according to lines. It has been found out 17 determinants which could influence municipal expenditures. Relations between the explained variable (individual expenditure areas of municipalities) and explanatory variables (individual determi-nants) have been determined by using analysis of panel data (random effects model). It has been found out that municipal expenditures are influenced mainly by: jurisdiction of the municipality to a certain region, scope of delegated powers of municipalities, years of elections to municipal councils, existence of allowance organization or legal entity, population density of the municipality, built-up area of the municipality and the number of children and pupils at schools which were set up by municipalities.

The aim of this work is to analyse divergences of local government budgets and medium-term budgetary outlooks from results of the budgetary management of selected municipalities in the Czech Republic. At the beginning of the work, there are introduced problems of budgetary rules, medium-term budgetary outlooks and local government budgets. The analysis is focused on the municipalities which make a delegate force as municipalities with authorized municipal office from 2010 to 2013. The analysis is focused on the evaluation of the use of the medium-term budgetary outlook in the budgetary planning by municipalities. This work compares planning by municipalities updating their budgetary outlooks with the municipalities that are not updated. It is also focused on including the modification of tax-incomes in medium-term and annual budgetary planning. The analysis evaluates divergences of budgetary management in the municipalities during the analysed years. In the conclusion of work, there is made the analysis of debts of surveyed municipalities. Based on the analysis, following results were reached. The municipalities keep the rules of the verity and safety in the majority of revenues and common expenses. In 2013 where the amendment to the law of budget determination of taxes came into force, municipalities did not involve the modification of tax revenue in the medium-term budgetary outlooks and local government budgets. Based on the analysis of management, the budget of most municipalities is balanced or even surplus from 2010 to 2013. The average debt of the analysed municipalities did not change too much and 8 of 100 analysed municipalities had no debts during the analysed period. The recommendations following from the economic analysis of the surveyed municipalities are: to publish medium-term budgetary outlooks on the website of municipalities in conformity with the rule of publicity of public budgets and by reason of the addition of information for residents of the municipality, to monitor changes in the legislation and to integrate these changes into budgetary planning in time.

This thesis deals with the issue of competitiveness of Czech enterprises, con-cretely municipalities, which are specific type of public enterprise. In the thesis there are identified factors of regional competitiveness of municipalities suggested by leaders of municipalities and cities and regression analyses of their influence on regional competitiveness is provided. Thesis contains also proposal of measures of increasing regional competitiveness of municipalities by drawing money from EU Structural funds in accordance with the current strategy of the European Union, the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Moreover, project plan for municipality, with corresponds with its potential realization of the objectives of the Regional Development Strategy of the Czech Republic 2014-2020, together with the simple instructions for the applicants for subsidy from EU's Structural funds, is prepared.

The paper analyzes the development of some individual settlement in the Novohradské Mountains. First part introduces the reader to the development of the territory Novohradsko, the reasons of changes in population and some more information about specific communities. Furthermore, it discusses used base maps and their characteristics. The practical part refers to the analysis used to compare the development of individual municipalities in the area within the last three centuries, from the times of Maria Theresa to the present.

The thesis deals with the development of local government in the village of Horni Cerekev. The work is conceived as a case study. Thematic framework for the work starts in 1990 and continues to the present. The work depicts Individual municipal elections as an element shaping the local political environment and summarizes the development of the political scene in relation to local government. The introductory part describes the basic theoretical background of the local rural area of the municipality. The work is based on political science theory. The work also defines the context and specificity of municipal elections, the basic characteristics of the typology of the political scene municipalities, mayor types including municipal systems. The theoretical part sets the basis for the practical part. Describing the socio-economic indicators of the village continues in the practical part of the work focusingon on semi-structured interviews to evaluate the local political scene, principles of functioning of local party system and identification of political participants.

Despite the transformation of party systems both at the national and sub-national political decision-making levels of politics, the hallmark of local political life of the municipality of Blovice city is a relative stability of the local party system. This fact is the basis of the Master thesis which aims to assess the nature of the electoral behavior of the local electorate in the elections to the municipal council with the ambition to evaluate the utility of the theory that is based on locally contextual interpretation. Partial objectives of the thesis that contribute to the main goal are the following: a description of the results of elections that are decisive for a development of the party system of Blovice city, a description of variables that underlie the permanent electoral support for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and the characteristics of electoral behavior of the local electorate. Thesis will be designed as a case study. A research will be based on voting decisions of electorate of Blovice city. The objects of the research will be the voters who participate in the elections to the municipal council and representatives of local politics and territorial autonomy. Value attitudes and voting behavior of voters will be assessed on the basis of data obtained by questionnaire. Electoral support of parties will be evaluated on the basis of data from unstructured interviews with local politicians (especially those from the party ODS). A local political life and in particular the election results will be described thanks to data published by the Czech Statistical Office (available on www.volby.cz).

Despite the transformation of party systems both at the national and sub-national political decision-making levels of politics, the hallmark of local political life of the municipality of Blovice city is a relative stability of the local party system. This fact is the basis of the Master thesis which aims to assess the nature of the electoral behavior of the local electorate in the elections to the municipal council with the ambition to evaluate the utility of the theory that is based on locally contextual interpretation. Partial objectives of the thesis that contribute to the main goal are the following: a description of the results of elections that are decisive for a development of the party system of Blovice city, a description of variables that underlie the permanent electoral support for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and the characteristics of electoral behavior of the local electorate. Thesis will be designed as a case study. A research will be based on voting decisions of electorate of Blovice city. The objects of the research will be the voters who participate in the elections to the municipal council and representatives of local politics and territorial autonomy. Value attitudes and voting behavior of voters will be assessed on the basis of data obtained by questionnaire. Electoral support of parties will be evaluated on the basis of data from unstructured interviews with local politicians (especially those from the party ODS). A local political life and in particular the election results will be described thanks to data published by the Czech Statistical Office (available on www.volby.cz).

The aim of my study was to determine the influence of the new property tax adjustment on the budgets of selected municipalities and to determine how these municipalities use and apply the possibility given to them by the legislative on property taxes. In my study, I compared 11 municipalities located in the Český Krumlov District. It includes the towns of Český Krumlov, Vyšší Brod, the township Frymburk and the municipalities of Větřní, Bohdalovice, Světlík, Lipno nad Vltavou, Kájov, Chvalšiny, Zlatá Koruna and Hořice na Šumavě. I compared the generally binding regulations in the tax periods 2008, 2009, 2010 and the revenues from the tax in the same periods in these selected municipalities.

Target of dissertation is assess current condition of marketing communication particular municipality and compare with situaction of marketing communication diferent from municipality. Analysis including describing of two at a time municipality and theirs concrete orientation in a marketing communication. And suggest him improvement in this sphere.

In terms of its contents, the Dissertation is focused on the mapping of vernacular architecture monuments in various areas of the South Bohemian Region. The introductory theoretical part begins with an overview of the historical development of rural buildings, materials used and structural elements of the buildings, and then it describes basic regional types of vernacular architecture in the territory of the Czech Republic. This is followed by a description of the methods of collection, processing, and evaluation of data necessary for the creation of the final, practical part of the Dissertation. This part maps all the most interesting buildings from the architectonic point of view which are situated in the area of six selected South Bohemian communities chosen in accordance with the field study performed earlier, namely in Kojákovice, Blansko, Dobrá, Borová Lada, Krašovice, Ounuz.