Committing a Crime as a Reason to Limit the Ability to Perform Functions in Local Government Administration

2018 local self-government elections in Poland were special ones. Brought to light mismatching of provisions of the Electoral Code and Act on Local Self-Government Employees and attempt to use it to obtain an advantage in fight for political power caused political emotions and legal controversies. T...

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Main Authors:	Janusz Bojarski, Natalia Daśko
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek 2019-12-01
Series:	Polish Political Science Yearbook
Subjects:	criminal law elections electoral law legal policy
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2019411

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spelling	doaj-adee465479e8455d95cd6fd448e00ad02020-11-25T02:50:25ZengWydawnictwo Adam MarszałekPolish Political Science Yearbook0208-73750208-73752019-12-0148466367410.15804/ppsy2019411Committing a Crime as a Reason to Limit the Ability to Perform Functions in Local Government AdministrationJanusz Bojarski0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0590-7464Natalia Daśko1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9122-4883National Economics UniversityNicolaus Copernicus University2018 local self-government elections in Poland were special ones. Brought to light mismatching of provisions of the Electoral Code and Act on Local Self-Government Employees and attempt to use it to obtain an advantage in fight for political power caused political emotions and legal controversies. The aim of this article is presents limits imposed by criminal law on right to be elected in this type of elections and more general, role of criminal law as a tool in politics. The article presents a problem of conflict of legal regulations regarding the right to be elected and perform a public function in a local self-government unit as a problem of conflict between will of voters and attitude of politicians to creation of law and aim they try to obtain.https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2019411criminal lawelectionselectoral lawlegal policy
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title	Committing a Crime as a Reason to Limit the Ability to Perform Functions in Local Government Administration
title_short	Committing a Crime as a Reason to Limit the Ability to Perform Functions in Local Government Administration
title_full	Committing a Crime as a Reason to Limit the Ability to Perform Functions in Local Government Administration
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publisher	Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
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description	2018 local self-government elections in Poland were special ones. Brought to light mismatching of provisions of the Electoral Code and Act on Local Self-Government Employees and attempt to use it to obtain an advantage in fight for political power caused political emotions and legal controversies. The aim of this article is presents limits imposed by criminal law on right to be elected in this type of elections and more general, role of criminal law as a tool in politics. The article presents a problem of conflict of legal regulations regarding the right to be elected and perform a public function in a local self-government unit as a problem of conflict between will of voters and attitude of politicians to creation of law and aim they try to obtain.
topic	criminal law elections electoral law legal policy
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Committing a Crime as a Reason to Limit the Ability to Perform Functions in Local Government Administration

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