Who Become a Mayor? The Lesson About Symbolic Representation from the Czech Republic

The proposed paper to aim to analyse question how partisan, personal and contextual characteristics affect who will be elected as mayor after local elections in system with indirectly elected mayor. It is conventional but rarely tested wisdom, that candidate from the top of the list of the strongest coalition party have the highest chance to be the mayor. This statement is tested on database including names of mayors and elected representatives of 6258 municipalities in the Czech Republic in period from 2006 to 2018. The Czech case allows to study the effect of amalgamation. In amalgamated municipalities we also test whether the centre – periphery relations matter and lead to higher chance of candidates from centre to be the mayor.