Direct elections of mayors (lord mayors) and governors and their possible impact on the performance of public administration

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Direct elections of mayors (lord mayors) and governors and their possible impact on the performance of public administration

Original language description

This paper is dedicated to the issue of one of the means and forms for direct democracy, i.e. “direct elections” of mayors and governors, and the possibilities and limits to its implementation in the existing system of elections in the municipalities and regions of the Czech Republic. From the point of view of the direct election of mayors (lord mayors) and governors, attention usually focusses on the change in the status of directly elected mayors (governors) in relation to the municipal (regional) council, the matter of “strengthening” their mandate and the necessity of explicitly defining their (exclusive) jurisdiction. The problem also arises in association with the method of “dismissing” directly elected mayors (governors) from office. Their dismissal by the municipal (regional) council would be at odds with the principle of the direct election. A further section of this paper is dedicated to the option of using the experience from those states which already have direct mayoral elections, especially the legislative regulation of the direct mayoral elections in Slovakia.

Czech name

Direct elections of mayors (lord mayors) and governors and their possible impact on the performance of public administration

Czech description

This paper is dedicated to the issue of one of the means and forms for direct democracy, i.e. “direct elections” of mayors and governors, and the possibilities and limits to its implementation in the existing system of elections in the municipalities and regions of the Czech Republic. From the point of view of the direct election of mayors (lord mayors) and governors, attention usually focusses on the change in the status of directly elected mayors (governors) in relation to the municipal (regional) council, the matter of “strengthening” their mandate and the necessity of explicitly defining their (exclusive) jurisdiction. The problem also arises in association with the method of “dismissing” directly elected mayors (governors) from office. Their dismissal by the municipal (regional) council would be at odds with the principle of the direct election. A further section of this paper is dedicated to the option of using the experience from those states which already have direct mayoral elections, especially the legislative regulation of the direct mayoral elections in Slovakia.

Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50500 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

Public Economics and Administration 2019

ISBN

9788024843568

ISSN

1805-9104

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

56-69

Publisher name

VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

Place of publication

Ostrava

Event location

Ostrava

Event date

Sep 10, 2019

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000519274800006