Independent Mayors and Local Lists in Large Polish Cities: Towards a Non-partisan Model of Local Government?

Gendźwiłł, Adam

doi:10.1080/03003930.2011.649915

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“…Vergleicht man die Fallstudien aus verschiedenen Ländern, zeigen sich Unterschiede in der Präsenz und dem Erfolg zwischen West-und Osteuropa (Boogers und Voerman 2010;Gendźwiłł 2012;Kukovic und Hacek 2011;Reiser und Holtmann 2008). Systematisch ländervergleichende Studien liegen bislang allerdings nicht vor.…”

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Rage against the party machine? Wählergemeinschaften als Alternative im kommunalpolitischen Wettbewerb

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2021

Z Politikwiss

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Rage against the party machine? Wählergemeinschaften als Alternative im kommunalpolitischen Wettbewerb

Angenendt

2021

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“…Local electoral politics in Poland have generally followed a different pattern. Parties have never played a predominant role in municipal electoral politics (Gendźwiłł 2012). While the share of candidates and elected councillors going to party-affiliated candidates had been increasing before 2010, this peaked in that year and then markedly declined following local election reforms (Gendźwiłł and Żółtak 2017: 123).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In either case, we might consider the failure to make such a coalition – organized or de facto – would probably result in fracturing the opposition vote. Second, Central European parties are generally under-institutionalized, especially opposition parties in dominant-party systems and especially at the subnational level (Gendźwiłł 2012).…”

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Local-Level Democratic Backsliding? The Consolidation of Aspiring Dominant-Party Regimes in Hungary and Poland

O’Dwyer¹,

Stenberg

2021

Gov. & oppos.

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Aspiring dominant-party regimes often institute major institutional and political reforms at the national level to ensure they retain control. However, subnational politics is an important, under-studied, component of regime consolidation. This study uses mayoral races in Hungary and Poland from 2006 to 2018 to examine two factors that may inhibit dominant-party regime consolidation in local politics: the use of two-round, i.e. runoff, electoral systems and strategic coordination among opposition parties. While we find little evidence that strategic coordination can lead to widespread opposition success in single-round systems, we do find that increasing the number of candidates decreases the likelihood of the nationally dominant party winning in the first round while not affecting the second round. As such, two-round mayoral elections may be an important buffer to dominant-party regime consolidation and may provide a training ground for the future opposition.

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“…First, independent lists can help to fill gaps in the local political landscape -and hence increase the voters' choice set − in situations where the local sections of national parties are absent or underdeveloped (Gendźwiłł, 2012;Holtmann, 2008). In those settings, local lists can act as substitutes for political parties (Holtmann, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although by now some studies have looked at the emergence, persistence, and success of local lists in European countries (Reiser & Holtmann, 2008;Gendźwiłł, 2012), only few studies have looked at how the presence of such lists influences voter turnout (Aars & Ringkjob, 2005;Freire et al, 2012). Our study aims to contribute to this scarce body of empirical work by examining whether and how the presence of independent lists influences voter turnout in both municipal and sub-municipal elections in Portugal.…”

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Best of both worlds? Independent lists and voter turnout in local elections

Tavares

Raudla

Silva

2019

Journal of Urban Affairs

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How does the presence of independent lists influence voter turnout in municipal and submunicipal elections? Despite the persistence of independent lists in local elections of European countries, this question has remained underexplored. Our paper examines the influence of independent lists on voter turnout both theoretically and empirically. In the theoretical discussion, we outline two competing hypotheses. On one hand, the best of both worlds hypothesis predicts that owing to increased choice for the voters the presence of nonpartisan lists would increase voter turnout. On the other hand, the competing hypothesis suggests the opposite due to higher information costs associated with independent lists. We test our hypotheses using data from four election cycles of Portuguese municipal and sub-municipal levels of government. Since 2001, Portugal's electoral law allows the participation of nonpartisan lists of candidates in local elections. The empirical analysis employs fractional probit and beta regression models and finds strong support for the best of both worlds hypothesis, both at the municipal and the sub-municipal levels.

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Independent Mayors and Local Lists in Large Polish Cities: Towards a Non-partisan Model of Local Government?

Cited by 32 publications

References 16 publications

Rage against the party machine? Wählergemeinschaften als Alternative im kommunalpolitischen Wettbewerb

Rage against the party machine? Wählergemeinschaften als Alternative im kommunalpolitischen Wettbewerb

Local-Level Democratic Backsliding? The Consolidation of Aspiring Dominant-Party Regimes in Hungary and Poland

Best of both worlds? Independent lists and voter turnout in local elections

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