Local and more local : Impact of size and organization type of settlement units on candidacy

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F17%3A00094649" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/17:00094649 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629817300677" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629817300677</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.02.010" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.02.010</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Local and more local : Impact of size and organization type of settlement units on candidacy

Original language description

Following current debates on the study of the quality of local government, this article focuses on the effects of settlement unit size and organizational type on candidacy in local elections within the Czech Republic. Municipal size and institutional design are traditionally seen as important factors influencing political participation at the local level. However, citizens in differently defined settlement units included in a municipality are disadvantaged differently by these factors and thus, de-motivated to participate in politics. The unit of analysis within the article is a settlement unit within a municipality. The article uses Poisson regression to estimate the effect of the absolute and relative size of the settlement unit and different organizational types of settlement unit on the relative number of candidates in the unit. The analysis is based on data from 6,124 Czech municipalities over three sets of elections. The results of the analysis show that increasing absolute size and decreasing relative size of settlement unit have negative effects on the number of candidates in units. Also the institutionally disadvantaged units (defined by the location of the municipal office within the settlement unit) produce smaller number of candidates. The results show the importance of structural factors on the traditionally neglected type of political participation (candidacy) within this field. This allows the formulation of recommendations for local government reforms, not only in the Czech Republic, but also for amalgamated municipal systems.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-22754S" target="_blank" >GA15-22754S: The Quality of Democracy: The Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Political Geography

ISSN

0962-6298

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

59

Issue of the periodical within the volume

July

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

24-35

UT code for WoS article

000405153800003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85013663616