Legislative cosponsorship network of Chamber of Deputies, Czech Parliament

Autor: Klinger, Michael
Přispěvatelé: Brabec, Dušan, Hájek, Lukáš
Jazyk: čeština
Rok vydání: 2021
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Popis: The bachelor thesis Legislative "cosponsorship" network of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (the PSP CR) for the period 2017-2020 describes and analyses relations between members of the PSP CR in the certain period using data the submission of bills. The basic starting point for the theoretical part of the work is the creation of legislative networks. The thesis first the very essence of the use of legislative networks in the field of political science and provides the illustrative studies that have in the past dealt with the research of relations between legislators through legislative networks. Further in this part, the term "cosponsorship" is defined so that it can be explained in the context of the Czech legislative process. Subsequently, the methodological basis of the research, which is the method of Social Network Analysis (SNA), is presented. The thesis describes the substance and the principle of its operation together with some of its network statistics which are then applied to answer the research questions. The main part of the work then focuses on the creation of a legislative network by applying the SNA method and its visualization through the computer programme Gephi. Afterwards, the created network is analysed on the three levels by the method SNA....
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