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Patnáct let studií komunálních voleb

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Ryšavý D.
Politologická revue (Czech Political Science Review)
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2017
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issue 2
115-132
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This review article compares four edited monographs that represent a core of municipal election studies in the Czech Republic. Most Czech political scientists didn’t pay attention to elections in the local political arena before 2002 when the fourth elections after the renewal of local government in 1990 were held. Earlier monographs were largely indebted to data gathered by the Czech Statistical Office. Their authors usually commented on data on an aggregated level and prepared case studies of chosen municipalities that included: a description of election campaigns, an analysis of programmatic statements and the role of coalition bargaining. Recently political scientists have been able to gather more comprehensive datasets which have in turn allowed them to apply more sophisticated analytical techniques. Moreover, political scientists can now include data from almost every municipality in the Czech Republic which has, in turn, allowed them to identify the size of the municipality (both geographically and in terms of voters) as a key independent variable. In this way a highly fragmented territorial structure is better represented than in older works. Finally, the political, personal and career profiles of mayors have begun to appear as a new topic in recent publications. The challenge for the future is how to address not only domestic but foreign audiences too.
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Municipal investment expenditures by pork-barrel mayors: evidence from a transition economy

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Leśniewska-Napierała K., Napierała T.
Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
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2022
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vol. 26
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issue 2
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The focus of this study is electoral accounting practices employed by mayors in municipalities in a selected, exemplary region in a post-socialist country - the Lodz region in Central Poland. The goal is to identify characteristics of pork-barrel mayors responsible for municipal investment expenditures: their terms of ofice, partisan afiliation, and gender. The generalised method of moments was applied to estimate the impact that the electoral accounting practices of mayors had on municipal investment expenditures. All 177 municipalities in the Lodz region were investigated, from 2003 until 2019. Contrary to expectations, it was found that electoral accounting was practised by next-term and independent mayors rather than first-term or party-afiliated ones.
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Politika jako povolání? Vliv uvolněnosti obecních zastupitelů na volební soutěživost

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Školník M., Haman M.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2021
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vol. 57
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issue 1
3-23
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This article examines the impact that the remuneration of municipal representatives has on the political competition in the Czech Republic. Municipal representatives can perform their office either full time (an 'engaged' representative) or part time (a 'disengaged' representative). It is common in some small Czech municipalities for there to be no full-time representatives, and even mayors are disengaged. There is no central database or website in Czech Republic that contains a list of all the municipalities and disengaged representatives and it was thus very difficult to obtain the necessary data. However, the authors discovered an original method for determining whether representatives are (dis)engaged and created a unique dataset of almost 6000 Czech municipalities. They used a specific item in the expenditures of every municipality's budget that concerns compulsory social insurance payments and they sorted municipalities according to whether their representatives worked full time or part time before the 2018 Czech municipal elections. They used ordinary least square regression models to reach conclusions. The results revealed that the presence of full-time representatives before the municipal elections increased the number of candidates per seat. Therefore, the authors found that there is greater electoral competitiveness in municipalities with full-time representatives who have higher salaries.
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Wojciech Bandrowski — zapomniany burmistrz miasta Tarnowa z lat 1867–1870. Przyczynek do biografii

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Fijałkowska M.
Prawo
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2016
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issue 321
173-186
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The beginnings of autonomy were an important period in the development of Galician towns, which coped as best as they could with the consequences of the administrative reform gradually introduced by the Austrian authorities. Akey role in the process was played by mayors heading local communities, because they bore the biggest responsibility for the existence of the “little homelands”. Often, given the universal respect they enjoyed, they remained in office for several terms, wining apermanent place in the history of the town and memory of its residents. However, there were figures, like the first mayor of Tarnów, who remained forgotten for many years, which makes it all the more important to make an effort to rediscover them.
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Die Anfänge der Autonomie waren eine besondere Zeit für die Entwicklung der Städte Galiziens, die sich unterschiedlich mit den Auswirkungen der allmählich durch die österreichischen Behörden eingeführten Verwaltungsreform Rat wussten. Die Hauptrolle spielten hier die Bürgermeister, die an der Spitze der lokalen Gemeinschaften standen, da auf ihren Schultern die größte Verantwortung für das Dasein der „kleinen Heimat“ lag. Mehrfach, in Anbetracht des allgemeinen Ansehens, das sie genossen, übten sie ihre Funktionen über mehrere Amtsperioden aus und sind für immer mit der Geschichte der Stadt verbunden und in der Erinnerung ihrer Einwohner geblieben. Es gab aber auch solche Personen, die, wie der erste Bürgermeister von Tarnow, viele Jahre vergessen waren, um so wichtiger scheint daher die Mühe, sie neu zu entdecken.
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