This diploma thesis is a case study focused on the concept of the voting bonus for mayors, which it further expands. Voting bonus for mayors shows whether mayors have an advantage against their opponents and if so, how great this advantage is. It uses a dataset of mayors from all cities in the Czech Republic, whose population exceeds 10 000. These mayors were first elected to the office between years 2002 and 2014. The thesis itself examines the very concept of the voting bonus for mayors from several different angles. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the voting bonus in the municipal elections. It builds on previous research and addresses not only the advantage for mayors in their second elections but in all of the following elections. It also examines the bonus that mayors bring to their political parties. In addition, it shows the difference between the basic voting bonus for mayors and its advanced concept which counts with voter turnout. The second part focuses on the voting bonus for mayors in regional elections. It distinguishes between two things. First are the election results in the mayor's city and second are the results in the entire region. A significant part of the work is a comparison of those two results which shows the role of mayors in the regional elections. The thesis...

The purpose of this study is to analyze women’s political representation in Umeå City Council from 1913 to 1946. By analyzing patterns in the representation, it is defined how the representation at a local level has changed over time and why. The article argues that female representation is affected by several factors, especially institutions, structures and actors. The analysis is based on these three, and how they interact. To determine continuity or change in the female presence a qualitativevariable analysis of patterns is applied. The representation is compiled and analyzedusing descriptive statistics and bar graphs. Female representation is continuously low throughout the period studied. The political role of women is characterized bythe male dominance of politics. Women represented in the political areas that were considered lighter, or stereotypical women's territories.

Syftet med kandidatuppsatsen är att förstå och analysera ledamöternas syn på kvinnor i politiken i Mauritius. Denna avhandling fokuserar på politikernas erfarenheter efter implementering av könskvotering i den lokala politiken som resulterade i en ökad kvinnorepresentation och dess konsekvenser. Det empiriska materialet för avhandlingen har samlats in genom kvalitativa intervjuer med manliga och kvinnliga ledamöter från tre kommuner i Mauritius. Det teoretiska ramverket är uppdelad i tre delar som används för att analysera olika punkter från det empiriska materialet. I det teoretiska ramverket har vi inkluderat teorier om de tillvägagångssätt att öka kvinnors representation, varför kvinnor bör vara aktiva i politiken, och om könskvotering. För att analysera empirin från en teoretisk synvinkel har resultaten delats upp i tre underkategorier vilket är respondenternas inställning till könskvotering och kvinnors representation i politiken, teorin om kritisk massa och förändringar i den politiska agenda, samt kommunpolitikernas attityder gentemot kvinnliga politiker. Resultaten från vår avhandling visar att föreställningen att politiken enbart är en mans domän har börjat förändras. Den ökade kvinnorepresentationen har visat att kvinnor är lika kompetenta som män att verka i den politiska världen. Dock visar inte resultaten någon märkbar förändring i den politiska agendan. Kvinnor i Mauritius är numera accepterade att delta i politiken, men det är fortfarande en lång väg att gå för dem att betraktas som likvärdiga medlemmar som män i den politiska världen. / The purpose of the thesis is to understand and analyse councillors’ view on women in Mauritian politics. This thesis focuses on their experiences after the implementation of gender quota in local government which led to an increased women’s representation in local politics as well as the consequences derived from it. The empirical material for this thesis has been gathered through qualitative interviews with male and female councillors from three municipalities in Mauritius. The theoretical framework is divided into three parts which are used to analyse different points from the empirical material. In the theoretical framework we have included theories about the ways to increase women’s representation, why women should be active in politics, and about gender quota. To analyse the empirics from a theoretical point of view, we have divided the results into three sub-categories which are the respondents’ stance to gender quota and women’s representation in politics, the theory of critical mass and the change in political agenda, as well as the councillors’ attitudes towards female politicians. The results from this thesis show that the notion that politics is solely a male domain has begun to change. The increased women’s representation has shown that women are as competent as men in the political field. However, the results do not show a notable change in the political agenda, because not enough time has passed to see any differences. Women in Mauritius are today more accepted to partake in politics but there is still a long way to go for them to be considered equal members as men in the political world.

本研究涉及之課題是處理1949至1960年間國民黨黨國體制之建構，國民黨臺灣黨務之發展，國民黨與地方派系的互動，國民黨與在野精英的互動等四個面向。 第一章以一九四○年代後期之臺灣政局為主，實為本研究之前置背景，論及臺灣精英從日本殖民統治時期起，至中華民國政府接收後的政治參與活動，以及國民黨在臺灣地區初期的黨務發展。 第二章處理中國國民黨改造與黨國體制建構。首先處理的是中華民國政府遷台前後的政情，將從臺灣外部與內部的政治情勢，討論美國對台政策的轉變，與政府在臺灣實行地方自治政策之決策過程。後以改造中國國民黨為主題，針對遷台的中國國民黨發展進行背景敘述，指出改造是在黨領袖意志下進行，與在改造後黨權成功歸於黨領袖所有，不再旁落；再探討中國國民黨的地方基礎在1950年代之重組，分從黨基層結構的設計、臺灣省黨部的人事遞遷、省縣市黨部的組織編制、地方黨部的經費預算四層面進行探討；再則探討中國國民黨所實施的社會調查，發現國民黨透過社會調查來瞭解臺灣社會，提高國民黨員的政治意識，並進行政策回饋功能。它對黨國體制的建構確實具有正面助益。 第三章處理的是黨國體制下的臺灣地方政治。首先討論的是1950年代地方自治法制變遷，及地方黨政制度的運作。其次處理中國國民黨動員機制的建構。首先注意的是中國國民黨的黨員結構。儘管本省人黨員在區域黨部中佔多數，總體結構與黨幹部仍以外省人為多。國民黨開始紮根臺灣，便需要各種機構以深入地方社會。國民黨便透過既有團體—農會，並組設新的動員組織—民眾服務站對地方社會進行滲透與動員。第三，地方精英既然透過選舉進入體制，其中特別是所謂「半山」與「阿海」兩種不同經歷的臺灣人所進行的政治角力，臺灣地方派系與選舉的關聯等都是探討主題。而後從中國國民黨所建立的黨內提名制度及其運作，與中國國民黨所主控的輔選機制的形成及運作過程，可檢證並修正既往針對國民黨與地方派系的互動之相關解釋論點。 第四章處理的是朝野互動下的地方政治。先分兩方面觀察在野精英的參政問題：青年黨與民社黨的黨務發展，及無黨籍人士。其次在野人士對於公平競爭的訴求，顯示於反對「一人競選現象」，選舉監察問題兩大主題。在野人士由於無法獲取國民黨進一步回應，決定以組黨從事政治競爭。對在野精英而言，組黨是化解社會分歧、從事政治公平競爭的解決方式；國民黨對組黨運動如何動用國家情治機構、媒體與黨機器解決1950年以來的首次內部危機，也在討論之列。 / This study explores four topics: construction of KMT party-state system, developments of KMT in Taiwan, interactions between KMT and local factions, interactions between KMT and opposition elites from 1949 to 1960. It deals with Taiwan politics during the later phase of 1940s in Chapter 1, including Taiwanese elites’ political participations from Japanese colonial rule to ROC takeover, and premiere stage of KMT developments in Taiwan. It explores reconstruction of KMT and building of party-state system in Chapter 2. Changes of US policy to Taiwan, and decision-making process of Taiwan Province autonomy are main courses in political situations after ROC regime’s retreat in 1949. About KMT reconstruction process, this study first deals with reconstruction under tsung-tsai (supreme leader of KMT), and party decision power only belongs to tsung-tsai. Then it explores designs of party base formation, cadres change of Taiwan Province Party Bureau, organizations and fiscal budgets of party bureaus, and how they exercise to reorganize KMT’s local support during 1950s. Then it focuses on “social investigations” which are implemented by KMT. KMT use them to understand Taiwanese society, raise political consciousness of party members, and policies feedback. At last, “Social investigations” are also positive to building of party-state system. It explores Taiwan’s local politics in party-state system in Chapter 3. First, not only changes of autonomy law system, workings of local party and administration system need to be dealt with. Second, when we focus on KMT mobilization system construction, we should notice some facts that Taiwanese party members becomes main sector in local party organizations, mainlanders are still in majority on party cadres and whole party. They can be stated that KMT begins to taking roots in Taiwan. KMT needs more apparatus to mobilize and penetrate Taiwanese society. Using established Farmer Association, organizing brand new system -- “Public Service Stations” meet such needs. Third, because local elections became ladder participating regime for Taiwanese elites, we should notice that political struggles between “ban-shan” and “a-hai”, and connections between local factions and elections. Not only the building of KMT nomination system, but also campaign task system which was controlled by KMT and how they work need to be explored. During such processes, established frameworks about interactions between KMT and local factions can be reconsidered and exemplified. It explores local politics between KMT and its opposition powers in Chapter 4. First, Political participations of opposition elites can be surveyed in developments of CYP and DSP, and independents. Second, Opposition elites call for fair campaigns by against “non-competitive election”, and supervising campaigns. No further response from KMT, which makes opposition elites calling for organizing opposition party. To them, organizing opposition party is best way to ease social divergence, and to solve KMT’s manipulations in local elections. This study also focuses on how KMT uses intelligence apparatus of state, media and party apparatus to solve its first inner crisis since 1950.

Most studies of emerging Swedish parties and politics have mainly focused on the Swedish Social Democrats and their struggle for democracy and political power, most as a prelude  to the so called ”Swedish Model”. Competing parties have received attention from historians on the national level, but their local origin remains to large extent an open field. The aim of this study is to investigate how local political factors shaped the emerging liberal party organizations in two small Swedish towns. By a case-oriented comparison two towns are contrasted, Skövde in Skaraborg county and Filipstad in Värmland. This thesis suggests that the distinction between national politics and municipal government, based on the interests of economic elites, was transformed during the period 1880-1920. During this period local elections and local government became increasingly sites for political struggle between different parties, with new agendas. With a framework that considered parties in light of their functions rather than organizational types and theoretical concepts borrowed from the sociology of social movements, the thesis main results suggest that political mobilization and liberal party-formation was depending on the local political traditions. The theoretical framework made it possible to pinpoint both similarities and differences between the cases. The results of the study indicate that the historical tradition is central to parties to emerge and flourish. This suggests that it is more meaningful to focus attention on local and regional processes to understand the historical development than has previously been done. / De svenska partiernas historia är relativt väl känd på nationell nivå, men deras lokala ursprung är mindre utforskat och inte minst gäller det borgerliga partier. I den här avhandlingen undersöks hur lokalpolitiska faktorer formade de framväxande frisinnade, eller liberala, lokalorganisationerna i Filipstad och Skövde. Avhandlingen visar att politisk mobilisering och politisk organisering i städerna i hög grad formades av lokala och regionala politiska traditioner. Den visar också att kommunerna var politiserade långt före att de nationella partierna tog hand om valen och kommunala frågor.   Studien visar att det fanns en kontinuitet mellan äldre lokala partier och de lokalavdelningar av nationella partier som etablerades efter sekelskiftet 1900. Det var en kontinuitet som återspeglades såväl ideologiskt som organisatoriskt.     Avhandlingens resultat pekar på att det är mer meningsfullt att fokusera uppmärksamheten mot lokala och regionala politiseringsprocesser för att förstå den generella politiska utvecklingen i Sveriges historia än vad som tidigare har gjorts. Anders Forsell är doktorand i historia inom Forskarskolan i regionalt samhällsbyggande. Det här är hans doktorsavhandling.

Essa dissertação apresenta discussões sobre a formação de uma coalizão dominante no poder municipal curitibano, estudando o período de 1985 a 2004. Com esse intuito, utiliza-se da análise de redes sociais para explicar os padrões de relações existentes entre grupos e indivíduos envolvidos nesse processo de formação de coalizão. Há uma forte atração para o estudo de Curitiba a respeito da relação entre governo municipal e planejamento, pois ao longo do tempo, houve uma sobreposição dos planejadores urbanos e dos governos locais, fazendo do sucesso do planejamento urbano sua instância de legitimidade. Assim, o estudo das redes seria um novo enfoque para tratar sobre a continuidade dos grupos que controlam o poder político em Curitiba, sendo que estabilidade eleitoral e dinâmica interna das relações entre Poderes se reforçam mutuamente. A análise de redes sociais contribui também para um estudo preciso das relações políticas em termos descritivos, sem impor a priori uma estrutura à realidade dos atores políticos envolvidos. A metodologia possibilitou esclarecimento sobre as ligações do grupo político de Jaime Lerner na cidade e na compreensão do apoio a ele. Verificou-se que a rede de sustentação deste grupo, durante 16 anos, dentro do período investigado, foi herdada das relações políticas passadas, muito anteriores, fundamentadas no grupo de Ney Braga e que , ao longo do tempo, foi incrementada com elementos novos, principlamente das relações com o legislativo. Mas, não rompeu com muitos dos vínculos iniciais de um período de grande influência deste político. / This dissertation presents the debates on the formation of a dominant coalition in the Curitiba Municipal power, studying the period of 1985 to 2004. With this intention, it is used social network analysis to explain the standards of existing relations between the groups and involved individuals in this process of coalition formation. It has one strong attraction for the study of Curitiba regarding the relation between municipal government and urban planning, therefore to the long one of the time it had an overlapping of urban planners and the local governing making of the success in the urban planning its instance of legitimacy. Thus, the study of networks it would be a new approach to treat on the continuity of the groups that control the power politician in Curitiba, where electoral stability and internal dynamics of relations between Public Powers strengthen mutually. The analysis of social networks also contributes for a necessary study of the politic relations in descriptive terms without imposing an a priori structure reality of the actors. The methodology made possible clarification on the linking of the politician group of Jaime Lerner in the city and the understanding of its support. It was verified that the support network of Jaime Lerner during 16 years, inside of the investigated period, was inherited of previous relations with late politicians based on the Ney Bragas group. To the long on of the time, also, the network was developed with new elements, which did not breach with many of the initial bonds of the period of Ney Bragas great influence.

Essa dissertação apresenta discussões sobre a formação de uma coalizão dominante no poder municipal curitibano, estudando o período de 1985 a 2004. Com esse intuito, utiliza-se da análise de redes sociais para explicar os padrões de relações existentes entre grupos e indivíduos envolvidos nesse processo de formação de coalizão. Há uma forte atração para o estudo de Curitiba a respeito da relação entre governo municipal e planejamento, pois ao longo do tempo, houve uma sobreposição dos planejadores urbanos e dos governos locais, fazendo do sucesso do planejamento urbano sua instância de legitimidade. Assim, o estudo das redes seria um novo enfoque para tratar sobre a continuidade dos grupos que controlam o poder político em Curitiba, sendo que estabilidade eleitoral e dinâmica interna das relações entre Poderes se reforçam mutuamente. A análise de redes sociais contribui também para um estudo preciso das relações políticas em termos descritivos, sem impor a priori uma estrutura à realidade dos atores políticos envolvidos. A metodologia possibilitou esclarecimento sobre as ligações do grupo político de Jaime Lerner na cidade e na compreensão do apoio a ele. Verificou-se que a rede de sustentação deste grupo, durante 16 anos, dentro do período investigado, foi herdada das relações políticas passadas, muito anteriores, fundamentadas no grupo de Ney Braga e que , ao longo do tempo, foi incrementada com elementos novos, principlamente das relações com o legislativo. Mas, não rompeu com muitos dos vínculos iniciais de um período de grande influência deste político. / This dissertation presents the debates on the formation of a dominant coalition in the Curitiba Municipal power, studying the period of 1985 to 2004. With this intention, it is used social network analysis to explain the standards of existing relations between the groups and involved individuals in this process of coalition formation. It has one strong attraction for the study of Curitiba regarding the relation between municipal government and urban planning, therefore to the long one of the time it had an overlapping of urban planners and the local governing making of the success in the urban planning its instance of legitimacy. Thus, the study of networks it would be a new approach to treat on the continuity of the groups that control the power politician in Curitiba, where electoral stability and internal dynamics of relations between Public Powers strengthen mutually. The analysis of social networks also contributes for a necessary study of the politic relations in descriptive terms without imposing an a priori structure reality of the actors. The methodology made possible clarification on the linking of the politician group of Jaime Lerner in the city and the understanding of its support. It was verified that the support network of Jaime Lerner during 16 years, inside of the investigated period, was inherited of previous relations with late politicians based on the Ney Bragas group. To the long on of the time, also, the network was developed with new elements, which did not breach with many of the initial bonds of the period of Ney Bragas great influence.

Women and local power: processes of mobilization and female political pathways in Turkey Type: Doctoral dissertation Author: Lucie Drechselová Institutions: Charles University and EHESS, Paris Year: 2018 Abstract This thesis focuses on the issue of women's under-representation in local politics in contemporary Turkey. The intermediary level of politics - party presence in municipalities - is studied with a double approach distinguishing among political parties (AKP, CHP, MHP, and the pro-Kurdish HDP & DBP) as well as among cities (Izmir, Trabzon and Diyarbakır). The Anglo-American body of literature in political sociology is put into dialogue with the French research in the fields of sociology of mobilization, of political elites and of institutions. Gendered perspective is transversal to the whole thesis. Field work was done in 2014, 2015 and 2016 in Izmir, Trabzon and Diyarbakır and took the form of non-participant observation and semi-directed interviews with two hundred female municipal councilors and women holding an intra- party office. Conceptually, seeing parties as heterogeneous entities allows us to study exchanges that take place within the party hierarchy. The place and role of women in the candidate selection processes questions the artificial separation between the "local" and the "national"....

<p>The study’s focus is put on the lowest level of Russian local politics, empirically represented by two municipalities in St Petersburg. It aims at identifying factors that influence the work of municipal councils. Municipal organs are since their establishment in 1998 officially self-governing and responsible for a wide array of activities within their territories. They are perceived as administrative domains in this paper, parts of a hierarchic domain-structure. The municipal domains are both fiscally and politically restricted by upper political levels – mainly the regional authorities – that heavily reduce the capabilities of the municipal councils’ activities. Besides being dependent on resources from the regional and federal level, the municipal councils’ budgets are reliant on taxing of commercial retailing within its boundaries. Joint with the basic social and demographic circumstances of a municipality, this factor is likely to shape the extent of the council’s activity. The field study conducted specifies that while a geographically central municipality is engaged in infrastructure-maintenance and cultural activities, a peripheral ditto is mainly concerned with social help. Deputies in both districts perceive the current prospects of local government as being limited by outer influence, most of the people involved in the councils are unpaid and the resources needed to communicate with the inhabitants do not exist. The general and actual weakness of local governments is mirrored in the public attitudes, influenced by state-controlled media and revealed in participatory election turnouts. The election in December 2004 produced turnouts exceeding the legitimate limit of 20 % in almost all municipalities. However, the figures are to some extent the results of administrative pressure and liberals claim that plain frauds determined many outcomes. Tendencies point towards a politicization of municipal organs, whereas presently many perceive them as simply administrative. The municipal domain is characterized merely by responsibility instead of actual authority, ownership and substantial spatial impact. It is reliant on higher-level domains while competing for resources with neighboring domains.</p>

The study’s focus is put on the lowest level of Russian local politics, empirically represented by two municipalities in St Petersburg. It aims at identifying factors that influence the work of municipal councils. Municipal organs are since their establishment in 1998 officially self-governing and responsible for a wide array of activities within their territories. They are perceived as administrative domains in this paper, parts of a hierarchic domain-structure. The municipal domains are both fiscally and politically restricted by upper political levels – mainly the regional authorities – that heavily reduce the capabilities of the municipal councils’ activities. Besides being dependent on resources from the regional and federal level, the municipal councils’ budgets are reliant on taxing of commercial retailing within its boundaries. Joint with the basic social and demographic circumstances of a municipality, this factor is likely to shape the extent of the council’s activity. The field study conducted specifies that while a geographically central municipality is engaged in infrastructure-maintenance and cultural activities, a peripheral ditto is mainly concerned with social help. Deputies in both districts perceive the current prospects of local government as being limited by outer influence, most of the people involved in the councils are unpaid and the resources needed to communicate with the inhabitants do not exist. The general and actual weakness of local governments is mirrored in the public attitudes, influenced by state-controlled media and revealed in participatory election turnouts. The election in December 2004 produced turnouts exceeding the legitimate limit of 20 % in almost all municipalities. However, the figures are to some extent the results of administrative pressure and liberals claim that plain frauds determined many outcomes. Tendencies point towards a politicization of municipal organs, whereas presently many perceive them as simply administrative. The municipal domain is characterized merely by responsibility instead of actual authority, ownership and substantial spatial impact. It is reliant on higher-level domains while competing for resources with neighboring domains.