Communal self-governments' elections in the Slovakia. And its chosen aspects

The main aim of the paper is to compare the pre-election promises and the following reality of the mayors of selected sample of the Slovak municipalities and towns. The comparison is based on the evaluation of some aspects of communal self-governments' elections 2014. We have furthermore examined the reflection of those promises in the preparing documents of development in accordance with a new programme period. The research was realized by the students of the Faculty of Economics Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica in the period of February - April 2015. The students were given the task to elaborate the seminar work within the framework of the non-compulsory course: The public administration and regional development. The topic of the seminar work was: The main characteristics of the municipality I live in, the coverage of 5-6 pages without the appendices, in the demanded structure. The work consisted of the parts, such as the characteristics of the municipality - size, demography, environment, memorability; the characteristics of the self-governmental bodies (voted directly or indirectly, advisory, facultative, obligatory and so on) and the analyses of the influence of the communal self-governments' elections 2014 on the creation of strategic, programme and conceptual documents, imposed in the municipality development. Our research hypothesis was validated; the percentage of the municipalities with modified lines of the further development within the particular election term through the elaborated programme documents is very low.