- Author:
Karolina Tybuchowska-Hartlińska
- E-mail:
karolina.tybuchowska@uwm.edu.pl
- Institution:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
- Year of publication:
2019
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
155-161
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2019109
- PDF:
ppsy/48-1/ppsy2019109.pdf
This paper is the first step to fill a gap in the studies on the position of mayors in European local government systems. The first part of the paper will be devoted to critical analysis of theoretical and methodological studies on the position and selection of mayors. The second part will focus on verifying the proposed hypotheses. In the conclusions, an attempt will be made to present a profile of local democracy in CEE countries.
- Author:
Sebastian Kubas
- E-mail:
sebastian.kubas@us.edu.pl
- Institution:
University of Silesia in Katowice
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7609-4002
- Year of publication:
2021
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
79-90
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppk.2021.06.06
- PDF:
ppk/64/ppk6406.pdf
The article analyzes the quality of liberal democracy in 11 Central and Eastern European countries, the European Union members. The paper examines the most important fields of the process of democratization, enabling to trace the deterioration of liberal democracy like electorate’s support for populist parties, neglecting the rule of the state of law, and the level of corruption. The methods of research are the analysis and synthesis of the material, comparative method, quantitative-qualitative method. Upon the analysis, the typology of three trends of the deterioration of democratization in CEE countries can be offered: massive deterioration, small decrease, stable democracy.
