| institution | Charles University, Prague, Czechia |
| e-mail | hana.bednarova@natur.cuni.cz |
| dates | June 14th- 16th (2 nights) |
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| Title of contribution: |
| Human capital and results of local elections in Czechia’s rural municipalities |
Abstract:
The contribution wants to unveil the relationship between the human capital and results of local elections in Czechia’s municipalities with less than 3,000 inhabitants. If activated and used, human capital as an individual factor appearing in a specific place and time can influence local development and it is an endogenous development potential of a rural municipality. The contribution examines the level of human capital of the population and local representatives in Czech municipalities. There is the research question of how the real human capital in a rural municipality and the human capital of representatives elected in local elections differ, according to: a) the size structure of municipalities, b) the geographic location of a municipalities, taking into account the typology of Czechia’s countryside, c) the degree of successfulness of the municipalities. The research has the following hypothesis: the municipalities with a higher human capital also have elected bodies with a higher human capital. The smaller a municipality, the more difficult it is to find the elite, which means the candidates with a higher human capital. In Czech regions with a traditional population structure, in the traditional countryside, elected representatives will tend to have a higher human capital. Successful municipalities will have representatives with a higher human capital. In general, the topic is set in the present-day theoretical concepts and differentiated approaches to rural development, taking into account human resources. The importance of human and social capital is reflected in institutional theories of regional development.
Keywords: human capital – local elections – representatives – successfulness of municipality – social capital
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