Local Elections as a Sphere for Forming Citizens’ Political Identity

The specificity of local elections supports the idea that there is significantly more chance of developing political identity at the local level. Given the social specificity of local elections, we propose three hypotheses with the aim of ascertaining whether (i) the greater significance of these el...

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Autores principales: Turska-Kawa Agnieszka, Haček Miro
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:494d7de7e615427184cd51e716d62df32021-12-02T16:37:47ZLocal Elections as a Sphere for Forming Citizens’ Political Identity1801-342210.1515/pce-2017-0003https://doaj.org/article/494d7de7e615427184cd51e716d62df32017-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/pce-2017-0003https://doaj.org/toc/1801-3422The specificity of local elections supports the idea that there is significantly more chance of developing political identity at the local level. Given the social specificity of local elections, we propose three hypotheses with the aim of ascertaining whether (i) the greater significance of these elections, (ii) the specificity of their political programmes and/or (iii) the proximity of voters to candidates lead to a stronger sense of individual political identity. These hypotheses are verified from a comparative perspective by reference to local elections in Poland and Slovenia.Turska-Kawa AgnieszkaHaček MiroSciendoarticlelocal electionspolitical identitypoliticspolandsloveniaPolitical scienceJCSENSKPolitics in Central Europe, Vol 13, Iss 2-3, Pp 53-72 (2017)
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language CS
EN
SK
topic local elections
political identity
politics
poland
slovenia
Political science
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spellingShingle local elections
political identity
politics
poland
slovenia
Political science
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Turska-Kawa Agnieszka
Haček Miro
Local Elections as a Sphere for Forming Citizens’ Political Identity
description The specificity of local elections supports the idea that there is significantly more chance of developing political identity at the local level. Given the social specificity of local elections, we propose three hypotheses with the aim of ascertaining whether (i) the greater significance of these elections, (ii) the specificity of their political programmes and/or (iii) the proximity of voters to candidates lead to a stronger sense of individual political identity. These hypotheses are verified from a comparative perspective by reference to local elections in Poland and Slovenia.
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author Turska-Kawa Agnieszka
Haček Miro
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Haček Miro
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title Local Elections as a Sphere for Forming Citizens’ Political Identity
title_short Local Elections as a Sphere for Forming Citizens’ Political Identity
title_full Local Elections as a Sphere for Forming Citizens’ Political Identity
title_fullStr Local Elections as a Sphere for Forming Citizens’ Political Identity
title_full_unstemmed Local Elections as a Sphere for Forming Citizens’ Political Identity
title_sort local elections as a sphere for forming citizens’ political identity
publisher Sciendo
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