Komparace politických stran ODS a TOP09: program versus realita

Abstract

The bachelor thesis "Comparison of the Political Parties ODS and TOP 09: Programe versus Reality" analyses how successful were the mentioned political parties in the implementation of their election programmes in actual fact. The beginning of this thesis deals with the theory of the party systems. The Giovanni Sartori's and Jean Blondel's typologies are applied to the Czech party system. The second section of this part follows up the Klaus von Beyme's theory of the party families, the emphasis is put on the conservative and liberal thinking, which the political parties ODS and TOP 09 recognize as their own ideologies. By using the election programs, comparative method will find out which of the studied party was more successful in the implementation of their promises into the reality. The Comparison analyses the election programs of the both parties for the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in 2010. Evaluation has been done in four sections, which are the economic policy, the struggle against corruption, the social system and the pension reform. It has been found out that both parties were in their actions similarly successful, the most problematic of studied parts was the economic policy. Nevertheless, TOP 09 has implemented slightly more promises into the reality than...