Size and Local Democracy: the Case of Czech Municipal Representatives

Ryšavý, Dan; Bernard, Josef

doi:10.1080/03003930.2012.675329

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“…From the perspective of education, small student societies provide opportunities for students to develop political self, affiliation to particular fields and access to cultural and social capital (Loader et al 2015). Meanwhile, political science research provides both theoretical and empirical evidences that small communities promote opportunities for participation in democracy (see Dahl and Tufte 1973, Ryšavý and Bernard 2013, Erk and Veenendaal 2014cited in Kouba 2018. Specifically, the social sanctions and norms in small communities create more pressure and incentives, which effectively builds up shared social identity and motivate voting and participation behaviours of the students (Knack 1992;Funk 2010;Kouba 2018;Bolden et al 2014).…”

Section: Student Union and Societiesmentioning

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Does university have an effect on young people’s active citizenship in England?

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Hoskins

2020

High Educ

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Educational attainment measured by years of education has been widely reported as leading to higher levels of political participation. The theory is that education plays an important role in a person's civic skills and cognitive capacity that helps them understand and connect with the world of politics and be able to defend their interests (Nie et al. 1996). However, a number of studies argue that education has no effect on political engagement as educational attainment has been identified as a proxy for socioeconomic background and cognitive ability. In order to examine whether the university has an effect on young people's intentions for active citizenship in England, hybrid cumulative logit models are used in the Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study (CELS) 2009-2014 with between and within effects which help explain differences between individuals and within individuals at different time points. Control measures of previous citizenship education are also included in the analysis. We find that the university has a positive independent effect on intentions to vote, a negative effect on intentions to volunteer, but not on intentions to protest in the future for young people in England. These findings help clarify the role of higher education (HE) in developing and maintaining democracy and social cohesion.

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Section: Student Union and Societiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does university have an effect on young people’s active citizenship in England?

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Hoskins

2020

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“…Similarly, most studies in the Czech Republic confirmed that municipality size has a significant influence, for instance, on voter turnout as one of the indicators of citizen participation in local politics (Kostelecký, 2005;Ryšavý and Bernard, 2013). In spite of the existence of contrary results by Magin (2013), the assumption that larger municipalities are more promising to women's representation was confirmed by most of the few studies analysing local elections (Welch and Karnig, 1979;Bullock and MacManus, 1991;Trounstine and Valdini, 2008;Smith, Reingold and Owens, 2012).…”

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Mgr. Pavel Maškarinec, Ph.D., Determinants of Women’s Descriptive Representation on the City Boards of the Czech Statutory Cities after the Local Elections of 2014

Maškarinec¹

2016

Slovak Journal of Political Sciences

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This paper focuses on question why is descriptive (or numerical) representation of women as local political leaders higher in some cities than in others? The paper focuses on the analysis of the determinants of women's political representation on city boards of the Czech statutory cities after the last local elections of 2014. We test some hypothesis, concerning two groups of factors that can potentially affect the success of women (socioeconomic and demographic, and political contextual), thus aiming to expand theoretical and empirical research which is in the case of determinants of women's representation at the local level underdeveloped. Overall, the analysis reveals that regression models explaining presence of women on the city boards were not generally too successful, with slightly better performance of the model using socioeconomic and demographic factors. Specifically, Moravia and municipality size proved as very strong predictors of presence of women on the city boards in negative, or positive direction, respectively (although in full model municipality size variable lost its significance), supplementing by the proportion of female councillors in same elections, which increased successfulness of women as well. In contrast, the share of women in local councils and on city boards in the previous electoral term was not proven as statistical significant, similarly as party affiliations' of city boards.

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“…Dahl, Tu e 1973;Mouritzen 1989;Larsen 2002;Lassen, Serritzlew 2011;v Česku např. Hampl, Müller 1998;Ryšavý, Bernard 2013).…”

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“…třeba sledovat obce z hlediska efektivnosti (cena zajišťovaných služeb), lokální demokracie (souvislost mezi velikostí obce a participací občanů či vykazatelností³ místních vlád), distributivní spravedlnosti (spravedlivé rozdělení daňové zátěže obyvatel v kontextu služeb obcemi poskytovanými) a rozvoje obce (očekávání spojená s ekonomickým rozvojem obce dle její velikosti; . Ryšavý, Bernard (2013) ukázali na nevýhodu fungování lokální demokracie v Česku. Upozornili na problematiku malých obcí, kde mají stávající držitelé volených pozic výrazně vyšší šanci být znovuzvoleni do zastupitelstva v komunálních volbách než ve větších obcích a jsou tedy v menší míře voliči činěni zodpovědnými za své předchozí působení.…”

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Notions of local democracy among Czech mayors

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Mikešová

2020

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The aim of this manuscript is to analyze notions of democracy among Czech mayors. Czechia is dotted with municipalities of various sizes, each with its own mayor, each of whom has a vision of how democracy at the local level should be practiced. Our focus here is on two types of democracies that are seen as alternatives: participatory democracy and representative democracy. For the analyses, two mutually interleaved data sources concerning the Czech mayors were employed: Political Leaders in European Cities (2015) and European Mayor II (2016). Based on an analysis of mayors’ attitudes towards local democracy, our findings suggest that municipal size is an important predictor of local democracy in Czechia - although an association of these attitudes with the mayor’s partisanship and age was found as well. The data also shows a relatively strong connection between attitudes towards local democracy and the mayors’ support for reform at the local level, including the instruments of direct democracy.

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Size and Local Democracy: the Case of Czech Municipal Representatives

Cited by 36 publications

References 15 publications

Does university have an effect on young people’s active citizenship in England?

Does university have an effect on young people’s active citizenship in England?

Mgr. Pavel Maškarinec, Ph.D., Determinants of Women’s Descriptive Representation on the City Boards of the Czech Statutory Cities after the Local Elections of 2014

Notions of local democracy among Czech mayors

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