Identification of chosen local representatives' legislative knowledge level of city districts of the capital city of Prague based on Act 250/2000 Coll., on budgetary rules of territorial budgets according to selected criteria

This Bachelor's thesis aims to identify the chosen local representatives' legislative knowledge level of city districts of the capital city of Prague based on Act 250/2000 Coll., on budgetary rules of territorial budgets according to selected criteria. Another objective is to evaluate this gained knowledge and present the specific recommendations which are leading to verifying but also increasing the level of knowledge of the local representatives in the city districts in the capital city of Prague. According to the results, twenty-seven local representatives, who were surveyed, achieve more than 50% knowledge of the law, which is 75 % of the representatives. The remaining nine, who make one quarter of the participators are below the 50% success rate. The research showed that the average success rate of questions answered by all representatives is 57 %. The results show that the success of the test decreases with age and the participating representatives, who were aged 56 and over, did not achieve even 50% success rate. In terms of number of elections, the most successful were the representatives, who were elected more than three times, but their plentiful experience did not significantly show, whereas compared to the second most successful group, only once elected representatives, they achieved a higher success rate of only 0.2 %. The most surprising result is a higher success rate of representatives with secondary education over representatives with university education, by 4.3 %. The theoretical part of the work first introduces the methodology for elaboration of the practical part. Then it further characterizes the functional division of the capital city of Prague, followed by specific competencies and legal status of the local representatives of city districts, which are the basis for understanding the importance of the function of the local representative. You can also find here the approximation of the law from which the questions for the questionnaire survey are made. At the end of the theoretical part, the thesis places the topic in the context of related economic theories. the methodology for elaborating the practical part is presented. The practical part describes the method of the questionnaire survey, which was necessary to carry out for the identification of the level of knowledge of the local representatives. Specifically, all the questions from the survey are analyzed, through which the results are presented and compared based on three criteria – the age of the local representatives, the maximum education achieved and the number of elections for the position of the local representative. Among other things, the practical part brings forth recommendations, thanks to which it would be possible to verify the knowledge of the local representatives and eventually increase it. The main recommendation is the creation of a sophisticated training system, which would be designed to expand the level of knowledge of the representatives throughout the Czech Republic. I consider the main contribution of the work to be the approach to the importance of the function and the competencies of local representatives and the creation of its own system for verifying the knowledge of the local representatives of the city districts of the capital city of Prague, which can generally be applied to all representatives of territorial governing units throughout the Czech Republic.