The article analyzes the problem of immigrants' participation in the elections on a local level as a display of political activity and the means of integration of the country and its migrants. Assuming the European-wide perspective it is noticeable that given countries differentiate in the level of enabling immigrants to participate in the political life. In Scandinavia and several north European countries there is the highest rate of immigrants' participation, on the other hand, in the countries that joined the EU in 2004 the rate is the lowest. In 20l0 immigrants without the EU citizenship were able to run for the local elections in l3 European countries and they had the voting right in l9 countries. In Poland only the EU citizens are allowed to participate in the elections. The research into the legal solutions enabling immigrants (especially those who are not from the EU) to acquire more voting rights proved to have interesting results. The research has shown that over a half of the people willing to parti- cipate in the parliamentary elections is for granting the voting rights to immigrants. According to the research among the electorates, the substantial percen- tage of the Platforma Obywatelska voters proved to be in favor of granting the voting rights to immigrants. Less support is displayed by the potential voters of SLD and Ruch Palikota. Furthermore, the majority of the PiS voters is against the immigrants' participation in the local elections. Finally, the results of the research show that voters perceive differently the problem of granting immi- grants the right to vote versus the right to stand for the elections. Although the first one is accepted by the majority of voters, the latter - not so much.

The main aim of this article is to identify current issues in the field of local government in Poland, especially the local political elites in the context of their political affiliation. The decentralization process and the gradual transfer of the responsibilities of the national regional and local dimension has led to the development of self-government. This in turn enabled the participation in the process of governance every citizen of the inhabited area. Recent local elections show that localism is a relative term and greatly simplified. Each of the local politician has own connections with a specific option. Those behavior leads to a kind of self-governance crisis that manifests itself among other things: a decrease of public trust, low voter turnout and increase the sense of social alienation.

Local and regional government are complex organizations, operating under varying environmental conditions. Their functioning and development depend on factors both internal and external. Environment creates conditions in the form of development opportunities and threats. More and more business in the management and administration of less exclusively defined area. More and more thinking about demanding customer service that is citizen (voter) and less to treat him as an object of local government influence. Important in the process of building a decision (both for the policy and for the electorate) is appropriate communication. Building belief in the power and usefulness of the current regulations that constitute its presence is convinced of its usefulness and as such goes fitness for a particular time basis. Political communication is an appropriate platform for exchange between politicians and the public, the potential buyers of the product. It serves communication and competition between political parties which issues its product to the market policy. Political communication is not only one of the mechanisms of political marketing, but it is an important plane relationship between the government and the public, allowing both parties to the transaction on the political market to obtain the relevant information of interest and sellers. This is done in analogy to the economic market where clarity is precise acceptance of the offer by the fact of its acquisition or rejection. Marketing communication in professional services is an issue extremely important and unique (specific), as the basis for her client builds their expectations of intangible product that no communication could then be created. In other words, communication is carried out in a company providing services in order to realize the benefits as well as to attract new customers.

The fie1d of ana1ysis presented in the artic1e are the findings of an ana1ysis of cognitive image of Si1esia and Si1esian in context of two categories. First is the economic deve1opment of the region, and second one is the di1igence of Si1esians. Answers given by respondents was depicted in prism of their po1itica1 attitudes and ideo1ogica1 be1iefs. It a11owed to point out specific patterns signi- fying about strong image position of Si1esia and its inhabitants autonomous1y of po1itica1 and ideo1ogica1 approaches of communication recipients.

The practice of political life often indicates that the implementation of the control function is one of the most important elements of the Polish parliament's competency. The possibility of appointing parliamentary commit- tees of inquiry guaranteed by the Constitution is undoubtedly the clearest, and the most spectacular form of its exercise. However, It would seem that the clear form of the accepted political solutions does not eliminate various doubts of procedural, political and legal nature relating to their functioning. It is no wonder that parliamentary committees of inquiry, becoming media phenomena, are increasingly seen as a weak link in the process of political reality. The main objective of this paper is to show the form and the position of committees of inquiry, arising not only from the accepted legal and constitutional solutions, but also non-formal conditions shaped by political, media as well as social culture. The intention of the authors is an attempt to present the actual importance of parliamentary committees of inquiry in view of the perception of their activities by the electorate of particular parties.

The artic1e focuses on the issue of e1ection si1ence, the range of its app1i- cabi1ity and significance for the Po1ish democratic system. It describes in detai1 the 1ega1 perspective of the phenomenon at the same time i11ustrating its actua1 impact on the functioning of party competition and e1ectora1 decision-making process. The primary goa1 of this paper is to present the resu1ts of empirica1 studies on the importance of pre-e1ection po11s for the deve1opment of the actua1 support of voters. Empirica1 verification has been app1ied to a thesis which assumes that the pub1ication of opinion po11s in support of candidates or po1itica1 parties during e1ection campaigns shou1d be forbidden 1onger than just during e1ection si1ence. The resu1ts were a1so corre1ated with the dec1ared po1itica1 preferences of the respondents, which a11owed the author a more detai1ed ana1ysis of the revea1ed regu1arities.

For po1itics, just 1ike any member of the pub1ic, the Internet is a very convenient medium. It not on1y a11ows for a re1ative1y 1ow cost to reach diverse customers, but it is a1so an exce11ent too1 for meeting the requirements of the po1itics persona1ization. Not on1y their own websites, on-1ine discussions and e-mai1 offer today a po1itician possibi1ity of mediating communication with citizens (voters). Becoming increasing1y popu1ar, b1og offers many exciting opportunities to provide information. Every po1itica1 party can find a po1itician who owns and runs a b1og (inc1uding Joanna Senyszyn, Wa1demar Paw1ak, Ryszard Czarnecki, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Marek Miga1ski). Most of them treats virtua1 notebooks as a too1 to present their views and image. They emphasize certain information which they be1ieve and have not been adequate1y provided by other media. Undoubted1y, on1ine diaries begin to p1ay an increasing1y important ro1e today in po1itica1 communication. Even though they are much more "poor" from par1iamentary websites, because they contain on1y the texts pub1ished by the author, they are a great advantage of persona1istic character. Popu1arity of b1ogs among po1iticians (not on1y in Po1and) is steadi1y increasing. One of the things attesting to the va1idity of this court is its constant evo1ution. On1ine diaries are more and more powerfu1. You can now post on b1og not on1y a text, but a1so a photo, short video or audio fi1e. It shou1d be noted that the po1itica1 debate is c1ose1y dependent on the media and chan- ging with the emergence of new communication too1s. B1ogs made a significant transfers in this area. For the purposes of this artic1e, subject of study focused on two 1eve1s of ana1ysis, for the e1ections to the Par1iament (if they were he1d this Sunday) and in the context of po1itica1 ideo1ogy. The ana1ysis of empirica1 data was re1atedto the two main issues: ownership and operation of po1itica1 b1ogs and track their entries by the voters.