Obraz kampanii wyborczej w wyborach prezydenta RP w latach 1990–2015 na podstawie wydatków wykazywanych w sprawozdaniach finansowych podmiotów zgłaszających kandydatów w tych wyborach
Journal Title: Studia Wyborcze - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue
Abstract
Depiction of election campaigns in the elections of the President of the Republic of Poland over the period of 1990–2015 on the basis of expenditure reported in financial statements by the entities that nominated the candidates for these elections. The election outcome depends to a considerable extent on a number of diverse activities conducted in various forms in an election campaign – in particular on canvassing – that are aimed at inducing or encouraging people to vote in a certain way or to vote for a candidate of a particular committee. It is deemed that campaigning methods and forms are diverse, that the entities that prepare them use various canvassing techniques, that the actions taken as part of canvassing change over the years, that the canvassing methods and means develop dynamically. An attempt to analyse these issues was taken on the basis of the financial statements of the entities that have nominated the candidates for the presidential elections in Poland since 1990, bearing in mind the possible doubts about the reliability of the data published in these reports. Despite these – sometimes justified – doubts, it is possible to formulate general conclusions in this matter. Undoubtedly, the importance of mass media, in particular television, has increased in election campaigns over the last 25 years. However, this does not mean that the “non-media” ways of campaigning have been put on the shelf. The scale of their use is still significant, but – unfortunately – the costs of such activities are often not reflected in financial statements. Regardless of campaigning methods, from the point of view of the State and its citizens it is more important that the campaigns should be lawful, fair, pluralistic, competitive, financed in a legal and transparent way. A legal and fair election campaign is the basis of fair elections, and it also ensures the legitimacy to rule for the bodies elected as a result of the elections.
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Tomasz Gąsior
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