| Title: | Local Leadership in East Central Europe: Socio Demographical Profiles and Value Attainment in Four Towns |
| Author: | Roxana Marin |
| Publication: | Philologica Jassyensia, X (1 supl.), p. 715-725 |
| p-ISSN: | 1841-5377 |
| e-ISSN: | 2247-8353 |
| Publisher: | Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide” |
| Place: | Iaşi |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | Leadership at the local level in East-Central Europe represents a quite under-studied topic in the field of elite theory. Identifying, analyzing the outlook of the local political elites is particularly significant in the recent drive towards increased decentralization and local autonomy. The present paper constitutes an attempt at critically and comparatively examining the profile and the value attainment of local leadership in the countries of former Sovietized Europe. Concretely, this empirical inquiry discusses the socio-demographical profile and the attitudes towards key values for the members of the Municipal/ Local Councils in four small-to-medium sized towns in East-Central Europe: Tecuci (Galați county, Romania), Česká Lípa (Liberec region, the Czech Republic), Oleśnica (Lower Silesia voievodship, Poland), and Gyula (Békés county, Hungary). The study employs the positional approach for identifying and analyzing the “local political elites”, using the case-study inductively and explanatory, through largely quantitative research methods: the written questionnaire, document analysis, and participatory observation. Founded on the results of the four cases, the present endeavor advances a threefold model of local leadership, pondered mainly by (a) the existing level of decentralization characterizing each country, and (b) the “legacy” of the former communist regime, through the features of each “elite political culture”: (1) the “predominantly elitist”, (2) the “democratic elitist”, and (3) the “predominantly democratic” local political elites. |
| Key words: | values, socio-demographic profile, threefold model, small-to-medium sized towns, Municipal Council |
| Language: | English |
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