Direct elections of mayors in the Czech Republic? Data from research and political support

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Direct elections of mayors in the Czech Republic? Data from research and political support

Original language description

Article deals with the debate over the introduction of direct elections for mayors. This reform measure has for the most part been mentioned by the political parties themselves and they consider it to be a tool to revive participation. Also the municipalpoliticians support this. In 1997, a questionnaire of mayors was distributed in the framework of research for LDI II: Mapping Institutional Performance (1996-1999), in the years 2008 and 2009, the project MAELG was carried out, which focused on membersof the representative bodies of European cities, in which there were more than 10 thousand inhabitants. In the Czech Republic, we performed an additional research study of municipalities in areas of between 3 to 10 thousand inhabitants. From both research works there emerges unequivocal support for the introduction of direct elections of mayors. Questions remain as to what the electoral law would be, how much authority the mayors would have, and therefore what would the local political s

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA403%2F08%2F0421" target="_blank" >GA403/08/0421: Changes of municipal councils in European perspective</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2010

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Contemporary European Studies

ISSN

1802-4289

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

77-85

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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