The President of the Republic is the head of state and the supreme commander of the armed forces. The President is elected by the members of Parliament and the senators during a joint meeting. A President is elected once every five years.
The Czech Republic practice parliamentary democracy in their governance. The Parliament of the Czech Republic is made up of two chambers – the House of Parliament and the Senate. Every citizen who is at least 18 years old is entitled to vote for candidates to the House of Parliament and the Senate.The House of Parliament is made up of 200 members, who are elected once every four years. The House of Parliament is to discuss and approve laws, draft bills and decide on the state’s budget.
81 senators are elected with a six-year term of office according to the principles of the majority election system. The elections take place every two years, when one third of the Senators are newly elected. Every citizen of the Czech Republic, who is entitled to vote and is at least 40 years old, can be elected to the Senate. The senate job is to discuss and approve drafts of bills, propose bills, express views regarding international issues.
Solely basing on the political structure above, Czech Republic has an institutionalized system for the change of government and leadership since elections are held at regular periods with integrity, and the serving term of the president is clearly defined, and that the president is elected by the House of Parliament and Senate which are approved by the citizens as the parliament and senate is voted by people. The institutionalized system should provide investors the assurance that there will not be any threat of uprising or coup d’états to remove the governments that have ...
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...ch has taken a huge progress towards democracy as the top agenda of the current governments proposes concrete anti-corruption plans and placed fighting corruption as one of their top priorities.
Implementation of discrimination laws
Czech Republic’s government has also had discrimination accounted for, they introduced in anti-discrimination law that protects everyone against direct or indirect discrimination that complies with the EU guidelines into the Czech national legislation. This implies that investors that are investing in Czech Republic would not have to worry that they would be excluded in the nation and are well-taken care of. Through this, the economy is open to foreign investments and investors would have more confidence in Czech Republic as they have successfully made good efforts that has successfully made Czech Republic a better place to invest in.
A republic can be defined as “A state in which the head of government is not a monarch or
Australia is currently a constitutional monarchy, meaning that the Queen is our current head of state. We also have a written constitution, which limits the Queen and other authorities power. The governor general, who is appointed on the advice of the prime minister, represents the Queen.
Business in US and The Czech Republic The purpose of this document is to present solutions and recommendations for Steve Kafka, an American of Czech origin and a franchisor for Chicago Style Pizza, who has decided to expand his business into the Czech Republic. This document focuses on the major differences and incompatibilities between the U.S. and Czech cultures. The script also shed lights on the business risks and mitigation on Czech culture. The paper also talks about the comparative advantages that exist in the Czech Republic and Hofstedes four primary dimensions for Steve to evaluate the Czech business environment.
The Senate also has many different responsibilities. In order to be a senate the qualifications you must have are you must be at least thirty years
Discussions of which constitutional form of government best serves the growing number of democratic nation’s are in constant debate all over the world. In the essay “The Perils of Presidentialism”, political scientist, Juan Linz compares the parliamentary system with presidential democracies. As the title of Linz’s essay implies, he sees Presidentialism as potentially dangerous and sites fixed terms, the zero-sum game and legitimacy issues to support his theory. According to Linz, the parliamentary system is the superior form of democratic government because Prime Minister cannot appeal to the people without going through the Parliament creating a more cohesive form of government. By contrast, a
The Prague Spring of 1968 is a brief period of history during which the Czechoslovakian government, under the leadership of communist party leader Alexander Dubček, attempted to pass reforms, which would democratize the nation and reduce the influence of Moscow on them. These reforms reduced censorship of press, radio, television, speech and other media; they also lead to individual liberties, economic changes, and government restructuring. In all, the reforms gave more rights to the citizens through the decentralization of economy and authority. However, Moscow did not react well to Dubcek’s decisions and eventually invaded the country with Warsaw Pact troops. The sheer force of the invading troops resulted in no military resistance and the invasion remained bloodless (militarily speaking). After which, Dubcek was removed from power and his reforms were undone.
As a political party is voted into power, the citizens will vote for a specific President to govern the whole country. The President will then assign the head of states for each regional division. The intentions for this presidential system is to create a slower legislative process, giving the party in power more time to debate proposed policies. This president as well as his/her party will be in term for 18-month cycles, or until the public decide to hold an election to replace the party in power. A certain party can be repeatedly elected into office, with no restriction in the number of terms the president will
...capital, total foreign investment amounting to EUR 37.7 billion” (FRD). This gives an insight of a number of foreign investors invested into Romania. “In 2013, investment by businesses and households accounted for 16.7% of the EU-28’s GDP, whereas the equivalent figure for public sector investment was 3.0%” (National Accounts). This shows some of the minimal percentiles in contribution to their GDP.
17 May 1787 -. The Senate is composed of 100 Members, 2 from each State, who are. elected to serve for a term of 6 years. Senators were originally chosen by the State legislature. This procedure was changed by the 17th amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1913, which made the Constitution. election of Senators a function of the people.
Presidents are elected by popular vote while prime ministers are elected by parliament. Furthermore, presidents are in charge of all people in the country where they were elected while prime ministers are in charge of the parliament. Presidents serve in four year terms with a maximum of two terms while prime ministers serve for as long as the coalition which he or she is part of remains or as long as the party he or she is a part of has the majority number of seats. In countries with parliamentary systems, voters elect members of parliament but not the prime minister. Most northern and southern American countries have presidents while many Western European countries have prime ministers.
Recently, the Canadian society is controversial about the existence of the Senate due to the scandals about expenses. In this essay, it will discuss the importance of reforming the Senate. The Senate asks too much money from the people which are unfair. People are willing to keep the Senate as long as the members represent their provinces’ local interest, having the same seats and elected by the people instead of the Prime Minister.
Corruption is inconstant with democratic norms. Democratic officials are entrusted with power given to them by the citizens on the condition that they make decisions
During 1989 many revolts took place against eastern European governments under communism, including Czechoslovakia (Slovakia.Org, “20th Century”). Both Slovaks and Czechs staged massive protests against communism in Czechoslovakia and ended the communist regime in November 1989 (Slovakia.Org, “20th Century”). Under the new non-communist system of government, the two republics of Czechoslovakia were established: the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic (Embassy of the Slovak Republic). In June 1990, with the federal and republic-level governments in place, free elections were held for the first time in the country since 1946 (Slovakia.Org, “20th Century”).
The Prime Minister takes over a large role from the President, as compared to the United States President who controls many aspects of the Executive Branch. The Prime Minister is named the Head of the Government, which organizes the activities and meetings of the government officials. In the United States, the President generally takes over these responsibilities. A final noted difference that separates the Czech Republic from the United States is the differences in the major political parties. The Czech Republic’s main political parties include these: the Czech Social Democratic Party, the Civic Democratic Party, the Christian Democratic Union-Czechoslovak People's Party, the Greens, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia.
In the program of transition to the Second Republic, the military leaders’ primary concern was to prevent the recurrence of the mistakes of the First Republic. They believed that if the structures and processed of government and politics that had proved inappropriate in the First Republic could be changed, a stable and effective civilian government was therefore designed to address those fundamental issues, which were historically divisive, and to establish new political institutions, processes, and orientations. The second aspect of the transition involved the making of a new constitution and appropriate institutions. Decree number 25 of 1978 enacted the 1977 Constitution. It differed from the First Republic in 1963, in that, it introduced a United States type presidential system (Nwoked, 199:73). Previo...