Article 2018
Authors / editors: Przemysław Szymański
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
The provisions of individual electoral law, and after the 2011 Code of Elections to a large extent determine the functioning of local self-government, including communal. It influenced a number of relations between the executive body and the controlling entity. This leads indirec…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2018.43-08 · ISSN: 2451-0432
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Przemysław Szymański
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
Elections to local self-government are, together with the elections to the parliament, a common way of electing representatives of power by the public. In both cases, all actors of the political scene participates equally. Political parties have a definite advantage over nonparty…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2017.42-08 · ISSN: 2451-0432
Article 2016
Authors / editors: Tomasz Czapiewski
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
The article is based on the assumptions of the neighborhood effect, defined as a spatial diversity of electoral behavior. It reflects the structural and social differences, but taking into account the effect of context, where living space is a context of reference. Election resul…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2016.36-02 · ISSN: 2451-0432
Article 2015
Authors / editors: Maciej Drzonek
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
Since 2002 in Poland the mayors of towns there have been elected in direct elections. In 17 towns with county rights the same persons were chosen for the four times (elections of the years 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014). They are so called “everlasting mayors” (multi-term mayors, incumb…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2015.33-05 · ISSN: 0867-0617
Article 2015
Authors / editors: Jarosław Flis
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
The article shows the influence of territorial division and the existing electoral law on voting behaviors, as well as on electoral outcomes. The analysis was made on the case of the malopolskie voivodeship. The structure of this Polish province is highly diversified. The study i…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2015.33-02 · ISSN: 0867-0617
Article 2014
Authors / editors: Wojciech Krygier, Kamil Szula
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
This study is an attempt to investigate a theme of rivalry non-parliamentary parties and groups at regional level and tries show that the parties have a dysfunctional impact on the efficiency of the local government. In addition, paper attempts to penetrate Szczecin social world …
ISSN: 0867-0617
Article 2013
Authors / editors: Andrzej Hoehle
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
The article contains multi-aspect analysis of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość structures participation in self-government election 2010 in the West Pomerania Region. Personalities of candidates, results of their campaigns and especially ways of campaigns leading are described. In the arti…
ISSN: 0867-0617
Article 2010
Authors / editors: Maciej Drzonek
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
In the first part of the paper there is a short overview on Marian Jurczyk’s way to power. It was very interesting that Jurczyk, without a support of any political party, in1997 get a senator mandate and in one year after he was elected as a president of Szczecin. Then, in 2002 h…
ISSN: 0867-0617