<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Contemporary Polish local and regional elections serve the purpose of electing the government on the level of a municipality, county, and the voivodeship, and therefore represent a particular type of elections which could be referred to as polytonal. A unique quality of polytonal elections is the fact that the separate elections for each of the levels of local/regional government that take place on a single day are quite distinctive in terms of the behaviour of voters, politicians, political parties, and other organisations participating in the elections. As a consequence, we can indeed observe differences in the results of the elections on the level of municipality, county, and voivodeship.</p></abstract>

Contemporary Polish local and regional elections serve the purpose of electing the government on the level of a municipality, county, and the voivodeship, and therefore represent a particular type of elections which could be referred to as polytonal. A unique quality of polytonal elections is the fact that the separate elections for each of the levels of local/regional government that take place on a single day are quite distinctive in terms of the behaviour of voters, politicians, political parties, and other organisations participating in the elections. As a consequence, we can indeed observe differences in the results of the elections on the level of municipality, county, and voivodeship.

The Character of the Polish Local and Regional Elections – Polytonality

Polish Political Science Review

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Contemporary Polish local and regional elections serve the purpose of electing the government on the level of a municipality, county, and the voivodeship, and...

The Character of the Polish Local and Regional Elections – Polytonality

Published Online: Jan 13, 2016

Page range: 22 - 40

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ppsr-2015-0019

Keywords
local elections, regional elections, political parties, independent committees

© 2014 Łukasz Kubisz-Muła, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Character of the Polish Local and Regional Elections – Polytonality

Published Online: Jan 13, 2016

Page range: 22 - 40

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ppsr-2015-0019

Keywordslocal elections, regional elections, political parties, independent committees

© 2014 Łukasz Kubisz-Muła, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
local elections, regional elections, political parties, independent committees