The impact of the number of terms of holding local executive offices as a result of direct elections on selected features of communes Cover Image

Wpływ liczby kadencji nieprzerwanego piastowania lokalnej władzy wykonawczej wyłanianej w wyborach bezpośrednich na wybrane cechy gmin
The impact of the number of terms of holding local executive offices as a result of direct elections on selected features of communes

Author(s): Sławomir Bartnicki
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Electoral systems
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: the effects of holding a local executive office for multiple terms; re-election; communal self-government

Summary/Abstract: The article mostly focuses on verification of the impact of the number of termsof a person continuously holding a local executive office (from 2002) on communes' percentage increase of income per capita in 2013 in comparison to 2003 and on the level of socio-economic development of the communes in 2013. The obtained results suggest among others that the communes where the executive authority has been exercised by the same person for three or four terms (from 2002) have higher values of the analysed variables.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 58-75
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish