Diplomová práce

Euro-attitudes in the Czech Republic - A new way to measure distance between political parties in relation to the EU

Dániel Péter
Anotace

Academic literature in the past has used several existing methods to classify a party's attitude vis-á-vis the European Union and put them into preset categories based on official manifestos and voting patterns. As the debate about the future of the EU has increasingly incorporated different sets of ideas regarding competences and institutional structure, the re-evaluation of the term and the content …více

Abstract

Academic literature in the past has used several existing methods to classify a party's attitude vis-á-vis the European Union and put them into preset categories based on official manifestos and voting patterns. As the debate about the future of the EU has increasingly incorporated different sets of ideas regarding competences and institutional structure, the re-evaluation of the term and the content …více

Zadání práce
Academic literature in the past has used several existing methods to classify a party's attitude vis-á-vis the European Union and put them into preset categories based on official manifestos and voting patterns. As the debate about the future of the EU has increasingly incorporated different sets of ideas regarding competences and institutional structure, the re-evaluation of the term and the content of „euroscepticism” has become necessary, including its adaptability to certain parties. This thesis intends to build on this tendency and will try to present a new way of measuring a party's posture towards European integration by combining two existing methods and creating a single continuum on which these positions can be described more accurately. Using the previously untested categorization of Chris Flood and adapting it to the brand new “PERC” method devised by a Hungarian research group, we will be able to demonstrate that the most widely used typologies have often miscalculated the proximity or the distance among political groups in their relation to the EU. The theory will be applied on the party system of the Czech Republic. As the country has traditionally been characterized by scholars as a strong base of eurosceptic attitudes, both among the public and on the side of political parties, the Czech Republic can be an ideal candidate for such an analysis. Recent changes in the party system and the emergence of new formations also provide a relevant basis for the research. By implementing the above-described methodology, we can present an up-to-date picture about the Czech euro-attitudes and prove that a more gradual and detailed scale of positions can reveal the deficiencies of the previous categorizations, thus giving a different perspective to the study of euroscepticism in general and a fresh report about the Czech political scene in particular.
Práce zkontrolována:
14. 5. 2016 13:47, prof. PhDr. Petr Kaniok, Ph.D., učo 12188
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Jazyk práce
angličtina angličtina
Termín obhajoby
1. 6. 2016
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Vedoucí

prof. PhDr. Petr Kaniok, Ph.D., učo 12188
KMVES FSS MU

Oponent

prof. PhDr. Vít Hloušek, Ph.D.
KMVES FSS MU

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