European mayors and councillors: Similarities and differences

Ryšavý, Dan

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-01857-3_9

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“…Starostovia, ich výkon, mandát a legitimita sú pouţívaným prvkom pri analýzach miestnej samosprávy a dokumentujú rôzne aspekty jej pôsobenia (napr. Ryšavý 2013;Heinelt et al 2018;Čopík et al 2021).…”

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Malé obce či veľké mestá – kde majú bližšie k svojim občanom? Geografia legitimity moci po komunálnych voľbách

Plešivčák¹,

Klobučník²,

Buček³

et al. 2022

sociologia

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Katedra ekonomickej a sociálnej geografie, demografie a územného rozvoja, Prírodovedecká fakulta, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave Small villages or cities -where are they closer to their citizens? Geography of legitimacy after elections of mayors. In 2022, further municipal elections await us, for the first time connected with elections to the bodies of higher territorial units (self-governing regions). This paper aims to evaluate the issue of elections of mayors in Slovakia in a longer period of time (2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018), in terms of the degree of legitimacy regarding the power of this post with respect to the size categories of municipalities by population and related election results. In the study, we work with nine size categories, in the case of the two largest cities (Bratislava and Košice) also separately. In addition, the issue is assessed at the local levelat the level of municipalities forming clusters within the territory of Slovakia on the basis of a similar degree of legitimacy, using the concept of spatial autocorrelation. For this purpose, an index evaluating legitimacy of power was constructed consisting of three components taking into account the level of electoral support, turnout and competition. As an additive indicator, in the case of individual size categories of municipalities we present the intensity of changes in the position of mayor in the municipal elections since 2002. Higher legitimacy of the office has been identified in the case of smaller municipalities, but it is declining over time. On the contrary, the urban environment is characterized by a lower degree of legitimacy, but with a positive outlook (the trend of strengthening the legitimacy of the mayor's post). However, the development of the values concerning the individual components of the index is considerably divergent over time when comparing different municipal size categories.

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Section: Diskusia a Záverunclassified

Malé obce či veľké mestá – kde majú bližšie k svojim občanom? Geografia legitimity moci po komunálnych voľbách

Plešivčák¹,

Klobučník²,

Buček³

et al. 2022

sociologia

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“…Zajímavým faktem je to, že v tomto období bylo Slovensko součástí československé federace, přičemž v české části federace byla ve stejném roce přijata legislativa, která zavedla nepřímou volbu starostů [např. Ryšavý, Šaradín 2011;Ryšavý 2013]. Tento rozdílný přístup se částečně vysvětluje odkazem na habsburskou monarchii, kde území Česka administrativně patřilo k rakouské části monarchie (Předlitavsko), zatímco území Slovenska bylo integrální součástí uherské části monarchie (Zalitavsko).…”

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The Representation of Women in the Position of Mayor in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2006-2014: A Comparative Analysis of the Factors of Success

Maškarinec¹,

Klimovský²,

Danišová³

2018

Czech Sociological Review

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Main objective of this article is to analyse political determinants of the descriptive representation of women at the local level in communal elections (i.e. the position of mayor) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia over the past decade. It focuses on the political opportunity structure (i.e. the structure of relationships that affect social and political behaviour) and questions whether this structure affects also women's political representation. It shows that women are significantly advantaged in municipalities where women have held a mayoral post in a previous electoral term. In contrast to other studies, previous women's representation in a municipal council is here found to have only a limited effect. The strong negative effect of the direct election of mayors and the negative effect of municipal size (only in Slovakia) indicate that women's representation as mayors may be the result of interdependent phenomena that are a combination of institutional structure (e.g. electoral procedure, the mayor's powers) and political contextual factors (past experience with a female mayor-not necessarily incumbents). This finding challenges earlier studies and it shows that any effort to identify a clear list of determinants of women's representation as mayors is a complex task, making it difficult to pursue a broader comparative study in a different institutional environment or a different political culture.

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