The purpose of the thesis is to evaluate the position of political parties in the Czech Republic on basis of constitutional and special statutory legislative regulations. First the position of political parties in the Czech Republic as a democratic state (constitutional point- of-view) is analyzed, followed by wording focused on legislation of basic aspects of existence and activities of political parties (particularly from the viewpoint of the statutory regulation). When processing the theme the jurisprudence and historical development of the relevant legislation was considered. The thesis is composed of five chapters, each of them as a rule divided into subchapters. Chapter One describes the position of political parties in a democratic system of government, resulting from their relation to the state and the society. Individual subchapters deal with term and function definitions of political parties derived from the legal regulation and completed by corresponding jurisprudence of the Constitutional court. There is also reference to critical view typical for political parties institution in connection with legal regulations as a possible means for correction of some negative features mentioned. The Chapter Two is mainly focused on historical development of legal regulation of political parties on...

Legal regulation of the position of political parties The thesis examines the legal regulation of political parties in the Czech Republic, which is an essential part of constitutional law. The thesis is composed of eight chapters, usually broken down into the following subchapters. The first chapter provides a general definition of a political party and its role in the democratic rule of law. The second chapter deals with the historical development of Czech political parties law and its relevance to current treatment. The third chapter discusses the applicable law regulating the status of political parties in (Act No. 424/1991 Sb., on association in political parties and political movements, the constitutional foundations of law and separation from the state. The next two chapters assesses the creation of political parties and modification of membership. The sixth chapter deals with issues of abolition and dissolution of political parties, suspending their activities and dissolution. Much of this chapter is devoted to the case of dissolution of the Workers' Party, and I come mainly from the case of the Supreme Administrative Court. The seventh chapter is focused on the financing and management of political parties. There is also laid emphasis on the law of the Constitutional Court, which on several...

Subject of my diploma work is contemporary politic and engage art within the Czech context. The course of study is concentrated on the change of political art since 1918 to this day. Central part and the root of the trouble is the term political art and its transformation during the last ten years, it means since 1998 to 2008. The work is divided into eight chapters, of which meant to describe the con-temporary situation and the position of political art in the Czech context and answer on the question, if the political art are works, which are directly connected with politi-cal themes and try to reveal, why authors refuse the inclusion into this category.

This thesis is divided into two parts. The first part analyses recently published data from the Central Grant Registry (CEDR) on state grant distribution in Czechia between 1999 and the present year. In the second part, I link this data to information on political connections established through donations to parties and examine whether politically connected firms are more successful in competing for state grants. I match the donating firms to non-donating but otherwise similar firms using propensity scores based on a number of observable characteristics. The results indicate that donating companies have a 40% higher success rate in receiving state grants compared to non-donating firms. I find that the effect is higher for grants from the state budget than for grants from EU funds, which is consistent with EU-funded grants being subject to stricter regulations. JEL Classification D72, D73, H2, H71, H81 Keywords grants, subsidies, donations, political connections Author's e-mail martin.kopecek@smallhill.cz Supervisor's e-mail miroslav.palansky@gmail.com

This dissertation focuses on current issues of Kamenný Újezd´s local council. Kamenný Újezd is a municipality with over two thousand inhabitants. This assessment looks into the local political process in the municipality. This assessment is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. Theoretical part focuses on the local councils, general establishments and elections into the local authorities in the Czech Republic. It also focuses on local political partisanship, coalition and the theory of political cleavage. The practical part of the dissertation describes some demographic and socioeconomics indicators in the municipality. Majority of the practical part is devoted to the local elections from 1994 - 2014. The results from these elections are put into graphs and charts. The collected data is then compared. In the last part of the dissertation are interviews with local politicians. Main public and political problems in the municipality are discussed. Also public relations and main political cleavages between individual politicians are discussed in these interviews.

Banning Political Parties - Theory and Discourse The political regime change of the Velvet revolution in 1989 brought to light many questions, that the Czech politics and law had not to answer until then. Arguments about the legitimacy of the post-revoutionary Czech communist party marked the early years of the free competition of political parties. There being no precedent in the decision-making of Czech courts, the Supreme Administrative Court had to decide many substantial questions when dealing with the case of Dělnická strana (The Workers' Party) in 2010. Some of those were elaborated by the European Court of Human Rights, other were more of a political and philosophical nature. The history and experience of pre-war Czechoslovakia and dissolution of German national-socialist parties in 1933 also influenced the debate. The Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic changed in the decison of Dělnická strana the nature of Czech political discourse and brought it out of the post-communist context to the contemporary European level. Using the concept of self-defending or military democracy, that is also used by the ECHR, it created a shared framework of both Czech and European debate on the limits of political rights and freedoms of association. The concept will be contested in the future, but its...

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The aim of this thesis is to explore and evaluate legal position of political parties in the Czech Republic and its historical development. This thesis deals with political party law in a narrow sense, particularly with constitutional arrangement and the Political Parties Act. According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic our political system is based on a competition of political parties, despite this fact not enough attention is usually devoted to their position in a legal system. This text uses an interdisciplinary approach combining mainly legal and political science. The thesis contains seven chapters and moves from general to specific. The first chapter deals with the term political party. Firstly it observes it from the prism of social sciences then it moves to political science definitions and in the end it extracts legal definitions and characterizes a private law nature of parties. Second chapter is about functions of political parties both in general and according to the law. The third chapter describes in detail the development of legal position of political parties from the year 1852 to the present time. The fourth chapter analyses current Political Parties Act its creation and amendments. The fifth chapter examines conditions of creating parties. The sixth chapter is about...

ANOTATION The thesis focused on František Soukup (1871-1940) and political party Czechoslavic Social Democratic Party, because he was the member of this party since 1896. Text describes his life before World War I. The work combines biography of František Soukup and development of the workers and social democratic movement in the context of political modernization - first at the example of party's newspaper, in which Soukup works. In the centre, there is a main theme of the party before World War I - the universal suffrage. Conclusion presents Soukup's activities after the legalization of this requirement, i.e. his work and speeches in House of Deputies, which are placed in contrast with his activities in the Socialist International. The aim of the thesis is write the biography of an important representative of the party and on this basis - analyze political discourse of social democracy at the end of the century. KEY WORDS: political parties, social democracy, František Soukup

These days are western democracies in serious crisis. We could observe this crisis in disconnection societal topics, not only, but especially political, from the citizens, who are affected with these topics the most. The citizens are becoming apathetic; they have no interest file their energy beyond their own private and professional life. This situation could develop in two directions. The first way means conservation of current state, status quo, and it leads to not so happy future. Or another way change of course happens and the interest in public life will be activating in the citizens. And I believe in the second possibility. However, there is lot to do, to revise many aspects of public life, e.g. political parties, funding to these parties, institute of representation and how community perceive it, or elections, the way legitimation.