Waldemar Wojtasik

TL;DR: In this article, the authors expound the specificity of local elections in Poland and the factors behind this specificity indicate the restoration processes of local government, on-going decentralization processes, active use of mechanisms for implementing local government electoral law and the growing significance of elections at the local and regional level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon, analyzed both from the perspective of citizens, their skills, abilities and knowledge which can all be utilized to build and shape socio-political democratic structures, as well as from the view of wider social and systemic structures in which an individual operates.

TL;DR: The aim of the text is to describe one of the basic functions of the elections, executed at both normative and empirical levels- the communication function, in the context of changes in the structure of Western societies, changes in methods and strategies of political communication and evolution of forms of electoral participation.