Faces of the European Union Institutions: The Personalization of Politics at the Institutional Level of the European Union

Mgr. Lukáš Hamřík

Doctoral thesis

Anotácia:

Cieľom práce je analyzovať vnútorné fungovanie inštitúcií Európskej únie (EU) v kontexte personalizácie politiky. Na základe analýzy formálnych pravidiel fungovania inštitúcií EU dochádzam k záveru, že politika sa na inštitucionálnej úrovni stála viac personalizovanou. Avšak, jednotlivé inštitúcie EU sa líšia v tom, do akej miery a akým spôsobom v nich došlo k inštitucionálnej personalizácií politiky.

Abstract:

Despite growing academic attention paid to the personalization of politics, we know little about political personalization at the European Union (EU) level, and even less when it comes to EU institutions. To fill that gap, this thesis represents an initial systematic attempt to look at processes of institutional changes within the EU using the personalization of politics as a conceptual lens. Based on analysis of formal rules governing the functioning of EU institutions, I argue that the institutional personalization of politics has indeed occurred, although it has not taken place in each EU institution in the same way and to the same extent.

Keywords

Personalization of politics, European Union, EU democracy, EU governance, institutional political personalization, centralized institutional personalization, decentralized institutional personalization, European Commission, European Parliament, Council of the European Union, European Council

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 17. 12. 2020

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 19. 2. 2021
• Vedúci: doc. PhDr. Petr Kaniok, Ph.D.
• Oponent: doc. JUDr. PhDr. Robert Zbíral, Ph.D., Dr. Robert Csehi

Masaryk University

Faculty of Social Studies

Doctoral programme / odbor:
International Relations and European Politics / International Relations and European Politics