Parties of the Czech euroscepticism. Comparison of Free Citizens Party and Sovereignty - Bloc of Jana Bobošíková

The thesis analyses and compares conception of Euroscepticism in the agendas of two Czech extra-parliamentary political parties: Free Citizens Party and Sovereignty - Bloc of Jana Bobošíková. The aim of this thesis is to characterize sources, roots and manifestations of Euroscepticism in political agendas of both political parties. At first, the thesis defines the origin and roots of contemporary Euroscepticism; afterwards it characterizes the term of the party-based Euroscepticism and presents its main contemporary theoretical approaches dealing with the party Euroscepticism research. For example: the typology by Aleks Szczerbiak and Paul Taggart (authors of the terms Soft and Hard Euroscepticism), enlargement of them by Petr Kopecký and Cas Mudde (enlargement by a positive approach of the parties to EU), standpoint of Italian Nicoló Conti and others. In quest of deepening the analytical part of this thesis discursive analysis methods are used as well. The thesis is also aimed at development and characterization of Euroscepticism in the Czech Republic, and subsequently at the conception of Euroscepticism of the Free Citizens Party and Sovereignty - Bloc of Jana Bobošíková