The Result of Elections to the Śląskie Voivodeship Assembly in 2018 in Reality of the Territorial Heteronomy
Abstract
The main aim of the paper is the theoretical analysis of the concept of the territorial heteronomy. Conclusions concerning the idea of territorial autonomy, regionalism or federalism easily can be found in the scientific literature. But they are useless to investigate and explain many political processes and political preferences in states of the Central and Eastern Europe. It is because states of this part of the continent did not have a chance to create and develop their own models of classic administration institutions in the nineteenth century, inter alia the local and regional government. Their only experience in this area is limited to the interwar period between 1918 and 1939. They have gained a new chance for a democratic division of public tasks after the collapse of the communist system in the very end of the twentieth century. But in that period they have focused more on the horizontal division of powers than on the vertical one. For that reason up till today political phenomena in the political centre have more importance than the regional policy impact attempts. The inspiration for such a research were electoral results obtained by two regional parties at elections to the Śląskie Voivodeship Assembly in 2018.
Keywords
territorial heteronomy; territorial autonomy; Silesia; regional parties; Śląskie Voivodeship; elections
References
Ciągwa, J. (1988). Autonomia Śląska: (1922-1939). Katowice: Muzeum Śląskie.
Dandoy, R., Sandri, G. & De Winter, L. (2018). Patterns of Regional Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Federal and Decentralised West-European Countries. In: L. Tomini & G. Sandri (eds.), Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century: Concepts, Methods, Causality and the Quality of Democracy (pp. 125-141). London-New York: Routledge.
dk/PAP (2018). "To za mało! Za mało! Za mało!". Kaczyński cytuje Broniewskiego. https://www.polsatnews.pl/ wiadomosc/2018-10-15/to-za-malo-za-malo-za-malo-kaczynski-cytuje-broniewskiego/ (16/10/2018)
Dudek, A. (2013). Historia polityczna Polski 1989-2012. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Znak.
Dz. U. 1960, No. 30, item. 168. Act of 14 June 1960 Code of Administrative Procedure Poland.
Dz. U. 1990, No. 16, item. 95. Act of 8 March 1990 on Self-government.
Dz. U. 1997, No. 78, item. 483. Constitution of the Republic of Poland of April 2, 1997, adopted by the National Assembly on April 2, 1997, adopted by the Nation in a constitutional referendum on May 25, 1997, signed by the President of the Republic of Poland on July 16, 1997.
Dz. U. 1998, No. 91, item. 576. Act of 5 June 1998 on Regional (Voivodship) Self-government.
Dz. U. 1998, No. 91, item. 578. Act of 5 June 1998 on Poviat Self-government.
Dz. U. 2017, item. 1453. Act of 13 November 2003 on the incomes of local and regional government units.
Dz. U. 2018, item. 1561. Regulation of the President of the Council of Ministers of August 13, 2018 on the Ordinance of Elections to Municipal Councils, Poviat Councils, Voivodeship Assemblies and District Councils of the Capital City of Warsaw and Elections of Mayors and City Presidents.
Muś, A. (2017). „Zjednoczeni dla Śląska” - Upper-Silesians Support for Regional Initiative. Political Preferences, 14, 157–74.
NIK (2017). Analiza wykonania budżetu państwa i założeń polityki pieniężnej w 2016 roku. Warszawa: Najwyższa Izba Kontroli. https://www.nik.gov.pl/plik/id,14230.pdf (06/10/2017).
Pawlik, P. (2017a). Na Śląsku powstanie nowa partia polityczna. https://slask.onet.pl/na-slasku-powstanie-nowa-partia-polityczna/8ynetf3 (30/05/2019).
Pawlik, P. (2017b). Prezes Związku Górnośląskiego: autonomia jest symbolem połączenia z Polską. https://slask.onet.pl/grzegorz-franki-wspolzalozyciel-slaskiej-partii-regionalnej-wywiad/hmp944g (30.05.2019).
Zasada, M. (2017). Czy Śląska Partia Regionalna powstanie bez jednego ze swoich liderów? https://dziennikzachodni.pl/czy-slaska-partia-regionalna-powstanie-bez-jednego-ze-swoich-liderow/ar/12718174 (30/05/2019).
University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7149-6977
The Copyright Owners of the submitted texts grant the Reader the right to use the pdf documents under the provisions of the Creative Commons 4.0 International License: Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA). The user can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose.
1. License
The University of Silesia Press provides immediate open access to journal’s content under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the above-mentioned CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
2. Author’s Warranties
The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.
If the article contains illustrative material (drawings, photos, graphs, maps), the author declares that the said works are of his authorship, they do not infringe the rights of the third party (including personal rights, i.a. the authorization to reproduce physical likeness) and the author holds exclusive proprietary copyrights. The author publishes the above works as part of the article under the licence "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International".
ATTENTION! When the legal situation of the illustrative material has not been determined and the necessary consent has not been granted by the proprietary copyrights holders, the submitted material will not be accepted for editorial process. At the same time the author takes full responsibility for providing false data (this also regards covering the costs incurred by the University of Silesia Press and financial claims of the third party).
3. User Rights
Under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, the users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit the contribution) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the article for any purpose, provided they attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
4. Co-Authorship
If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.
I hereby declare that in the event of withdrawal of the text from the publishing process or submitting it to another publisher without agreement from the editorial office, I agree to cover all costs incurred by the University of Silesia in connection with my application.
