Direct democracy in the Czech republic

The main topic of the presented dissertation is the direct democracy and its legal institutions incorporated in the legal order of the Czech Republic. The first part of the dissertation is dedicated to the democracy as a government form and to the historical breakthroughs in its development. The key historical milestones on the way from despotism, through the Athen democracy, followed by long period of democratic deficit, up to the renaissance of democracy during bloody revolutions are mentioned as well. Further attention is paid to the representative and direct democracy, their mutual compatibility and definition of basic elements within both conceptions. The second part is referred to the direct democracy legal institutions in the legal order of the Czech Republic. Historical commentary is followed by general interpretation de lege lata. The direct democracy legal institutions are pursued from the year 1918 to the present. Merely commentary on the petition law goes deeper into history. Within recent legislation it is being proceeded from larger to smaller (a maiori ad minus). Our attention is in the first instance focused on the direct democracy legal institutions in the constitutional order of the Czech republic. Subsequently, their implementation in so called "common legislation" is described,..