Thirteen years of reforming sub-national government in the Czech Republic

Illner, Michal

doi:10.1007/978-3-663-11258-7_13

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“…Regional or provincial levels were generally weak, which left aǹ administrative vacuum' between the powerful central government ministries and the numerous, small, and fragmented local government authorities (Bachtler et al, 2000). Territorial government reforms were often controversial, with bitter political conflict (Fowler, 2001;Illner, 2002). As the recent decision to delay regional administrative reform in Latvia indicates, some debates remain unresolved.…”

Section: Regionalism and Structural Funds In The Eu8 Member Statesmentioning

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EU Cohesion Policy and the Role of the Regions: Investigating the Influence of Structural Funds in the New Member States

Bachtler

McMaster

2008

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Based on the preaccession and postaccession experience of the new member states, it has been suggested that EU Cohesion policy will similarly lead to changes in territorial relations within Central and Eastern European countries (Grabbe, 2003; Keating, 2003). Specifically, it is anticipated that Structural and Cohesion Funds will promote the greater involvement of regional-level institutions in economic development, with the potential for wider changes in regional governance structures and policy practice (Ferry, 2003a; Hooghe, 1996). Recent policy developments would appear to support this thesis. In the run-up to EU accession, the Phare programme was used to provide direct support for subnational institutions in the new member states to assist them to prepare for Structural Funds. During the first Structural Funds programme period (2004^06) several accession countries implemented joint Regional Operational Programmes (ROPs), with the prospect of further decentralisation of programme management and delivery responsibilities in the 2007^13 period. As under the regulatory reforms of 1988, 1993, and 1999, the 2006 European Council regulations governing EU Cohesion policy for 2007^13 emphasise the importance of involving regional and local authorities in the design and delivery of Structural Funds programmes (Council of the European Union, 2006). Indeed, the European Commission has argued that the Cohesion policy goal (of promoting growth, jobs, and competitiveness) in the 2007^13 period``will only work if it is owned by all stakeholdersöat EU, national, regional and local levels'' (Hu« bner, 2006, page 2).

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EU Cohesion Policy and the Role of the Regions: Investigating the Influence of Structural Funds in the New Member States

Bachtler

McMaster

2008

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

104

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“…The choice of such municipalities as basic units of analysis takes into account a considerably fragmented settlement structure of the Czech Republic. It is characterized by a large number of small unintegrated municipalities, resulting in an extreme fragmentation of settlement system, reproduced in the equally fragmented structure of the local system of government (Illner 2003). 5 The outcomes of earlier studies demonstrated that the possibilities of direct application of some theories of political science (derived primarily from the practice of higher-level politics) on the reality of Czech local politics are significantly limited by the size of local political systems analysed.…”

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Women and Local Politics: Determinants of Women’s Emergence and Success in Elections to Czech Town Councils, 1998–2018

Maškarinec

2021

Urban Affairs Review

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The main objective of this paper is to analyse where women run for and win seats in local councils of Czech towns between 1998 and 2018. Our results are to some extent contradictory to those from Western Europe. More importantly, this study demonstrates that strategic context impacts on women’s emergence and success in local elections in a different way. First, we do not confirm that larger towns are more promising for women’s representation. While more fragmented party systems in larger cities contribute to making women’s candidacy more common, a large pool of female candidates does not result in their higher presence in local councils. Second, we identify openness of local environment to women, in terms of women’s previous representation, as a strong determinant of female representation in Czech towns, both in terms of candidacy and success.

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“…First, the structure of settlement in the Czech Republic is characterized by a large number of small unintegrated municipalities, resulting in an extreme fragmentation of settlement system, reproduced in the equally fragmented structure of the local system of government (cf. Illner, 2003;Ryšavý and Bernard, 2013, p. 834-836). Second, while Czech local elections in smaller (and partly in medium-sized) municipalities are dominated by the phenomenon of independent candidates, with increasing municipal size, the role of political parties proportionally increases, and it manifests itself most clearly just in the case of statutory cities where political parties dominate the electoral contest (cf.…”

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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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Thirteen years of reforming sub-national government in the Czech Republic

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

EU Cohesion Policy and the Role of the Regions: Investigating the Influence of Structural Funds in the New Member States

EU Cohesion Policy and the Role of the Regions: Investigating the Influence of Structural Funds in the New Member States

Women and Local Politics: Determinants of Women’s Emergence and Success in Elections to Czech Town Councils, 1998–2018

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

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