The aim of this study was to find a relation between the popularity of a Czech government and the state of the national economy. Popularity functions were established and econometrically tested for governments led by Prime ministers Zeman, Špidla, Topolánek and Nečas. It was discovered that the popularity indeed depends on the state of national economy; in case of left oriented governments the main factor is unemployment while in the case of right oriented governments the main factor is inflation. It was also proven, beside the main goal, that the Phillips curve theorem is valid in conditions of the Czech Republic. Besides the economic factors, political factors as corruption affairs and similar were proven to affect popularity of the government even more than the economic factors. Therefore it is essential to make sure that media is really independent from politicians, which in the czech reality is far from the truth.

The thesis deals with the question of existence of long-term governmental integration concepts regarding national minorities and foreigners. The thesis analyses theoretical integration concepts, their types and their development. It describes national minorities living in the territory of the Czech Republic. It follows the creation and development of the governmental institutional structure for solving the issues of minorities and deals with the analysis of development of the legal framework and of governmental concepts regarding foreigners, national minorities and separately the Roma minority stressing concepts' quality and linkup. The goal of the thesis is to answer the question if the long-term concept regarding these issues exists, to what extent is the concept sophisticated, coherent and how continuously/discontinuously is the concept been promoted.

The master thesis "Economical and trade aspects of defense industry" is aimed at analyzing the relationship between defense suppliers and a government. The thesis describes the conditions under which the market is inefficient and causes of government failures. The important principle is the one of Pareto efficiency, which serves as a efficiency benchmark of economic allocation. The thesis has utilized theoretical methods to analyze individual aspects of international arms industry - both economic and non-economic.

The thesis analyzes the key conditions under which technocratic cabinets in Europe are formed. There are 45 technocratic cabinets in Europe since 1989. This year is connected with collapse of communist regimes in Central and East Europe and democratization. There are also similar political, economic and social conditions under which all governments are formed in this period. The thesis composed of nineteen chapters. Because of lack of literature we have to define the technocratic government at first. After introduction of this topic, the second chapter defines basic terminology. Another part of the thesis is about technocratic cabinets in individual European countries.

The Diploma thesis focuses on the approach of the presidents of the Czech Republic to the power of appointment, dismissal and reconstruction of the government from 1993 to the present. In selected cases it compares individual specifics of approaches and interpretation. From the obtained data it is possible to compare the development of the approach over time and the development of the position of presidents within the Czech political system. The main source of the thesis is content analysis of the period media and other connected documents. Theoretically, the thesis is based on specialized literature focused on position and application of powers of presidents.

The thesis deals with the relation of social policy and budget policy of the Czech Republic in the period of 2000 - 2010. In the theoretical part there are explored principles,characteristics, functions, subjects and instruments of implementation of social policy. The concept of welfare state, its potentiality and limitations, including contemporary critical reflections, are discussed. As a theoretical background, in context of public choice theory, there is treated the question of political cycle influence on social policy. Attention is also focused on public budget system, particularly on the role of state budget. In the empirical part, aimed to deeper assessment of social dimension of the budget policy, are analysed data from the three electoral periods when different governments of social or civic democrats were enforcing different social policy. For electoral periods were collected and evaluated data regarding the four parameters: results of elections and govenrment profile, legislation acts of social policy, macroeconomic limitations, and expenditures of the state budget on social policy. With the help of the SWOT method were compared separate periods and were presented answers to the hypotheses H1 and H2, validating that the government of social democrats did not prefer more strongly social...

This thesis analyze institutional and political circumstances, which allowed and influenced the Scottich referendum of independence in september 2014. It discribes political development and situation in Scottich Parliament and Government from the creation of devolution to 2014. As a metodological tools this thesis use theories of Institutionalism, Multi - level governance and performance politics. It focuses on the pre-referendum debate as well. Main sources are official reports of departments of Her Majesty Government and White paper of Scottish Goverment for the referenda, both are combined with reports from BBC. It shows limitations and extentions of institutional influence and reach towards independence. Key words: Great Britain, Scottish Parliament, Scottish Government, SNP, Alex Salmond, referendum,BBC

This graduation thesis focuses on analyzing the impact(s) of the recent American mortgage crisis. The main goal is to study measures that have been taken to overcome this crisis andv evaluate them. The thesis is divided into four parts. The aim of the first part is to quantify the size of the United States housing bubble. The second part brings in the estimates of losses to individual financial institutions in the USA. The third part concentrates on detailed analysis of the arrangements that have been used to overcome mortgage crisis and consequential financial crisis. The last part compares the measures taken in order to solve the recent crisis with the ones that had been taken to overcome the Great Depression.

The main topic of this thesis is the functioning of the public service media, especially public service television broadcasters. After general definitions of the basic terms associated with this topic, the thesis highlights the differences between the media in the private and the public sectors, and characterizes the public service media in the previously selected European countries: the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic. The choice of these particular states was based on their different economic, political and media systems. The history, the development and the crisis of the Greek public service media are subjected to a thorough analysis. Regarding the inclusion of the historical context the thesis moves onto the crisis which occurred in June 2013 due to inconsistent government interferences in the media field, which led to a suspension of the transmission of the Greek public broadcaster ERT. The practical part is dedicated to a detailed analysis of the viewership of the Greek television, focusing on the period before, during and after the crisis had occurred. The main objective of the thesis is to point out whether the government interferences had influenced the viewership of the Greek television.

This thesis examines the development of fiscal policy in Hungary. The first goal of the thesis is to describe in detail the development of basic macroeconomic indicators of Hungary from the turn of the century to the present. The analysis of macroeconomic development should provide basis for the fulfillment of the second goal, i.e. to identify the main causes of the current poor economic situation of the country. Our hypothesis is that the dominant cause of the current problems of Hungary is not the financial and economic crisis, but the irresponsible fiscal policy of the government and the long-term incorrectly set system of social security. The third goal of the thesis is to compare the basic fiscal indicators of Hungary and the Czech Republic and to identify potential similarities or differences in fiscal outcomes of both countries. Our hypothesis is that the growing general government debt in both countries is caused by persistent structural budget deficits. The detailed analysis of the fiscal measures of the Hungarian government confirmed our hypothesis, i.e. that the dominant cause of the current problems of Hungary is not the financial and economic crisis, but the irresponsible fiscal policy of the government and the long-term incorrectly set system of social security. After the comparison of the fiscal development in Hungary and the Czech Republic, we concluded that the fiscal situation in the Czech Republic basically follows the Hungarian trend and the Czech Republic did not get on the verge of bankruptcy only due to a lower initial level of debt and the fact that its budget deficits were not as high as in the case of Hungary.