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Wykorzystanie II transzy Rządowego Funduszu Inwestycji Lokalnych jako instrument polityki klientelistycznej rządu wobec samorządu w perspektywie dośw…
2022
Celem artykułu jest analiza rozdziału środków z II transzy Rządowego Funduszu Inwestycji Lokalnej (RFIL) w województwie opolskim oraz debaty w tym regionie wokół zarzutów o klientelistycznym rozdziale funduszu. Według pierwszej z hipotez samorządy rządzone przez mniejszość niemiecką nie są traktowane jako politycznie neutralne i wobec tego mogą być narażone na dyskryminację w alokacji funduszu. Według drugiej specyfika lokalnego układu sił politycznych w województwie, charakteryzująca się niskim poziomem upartyjnienia, daje politykom regionu związanym z rządem możliwość podważania tezy o klientelistycznym rozdziale RFIL. Badania pokazały, że samorządy mniejszości niemieckiej mają mniejsze s…
The Central Government Fund for Local Investments as an Instrument of Clientelist Politics Towards the Local Government in Poland – The Position of t…
2022
The objective of the paper is to analyse the distribution of funds from the Central Government Fund for Local Investments (CGFLI) granted in the years 2020-2021 to the communes and districts of the Opolskie province in which the German minority (GM) rules in local governments. A hypothesis has been formulated that communes and districts governed by the GM are not treated as neutral communes in the same sense as non-partisan communes governed by local government officials who do not represent national political parties, and such communes and districts may thus face discrimination in the distribution of funds, similar to what has been established in the case of the opposition "Senate Bloc". T…
Enterprise Architecture Descriptions for Enhancing Local Government Transformation and Coherency Management
2011
Local governments cover multiple service sectors and are typically organized into diversified, deeply hierarchical organizations. Public services offered are tangible, mostly non-IT-critical, and heavily dependent on human resources. Information management is mainly manual in strategy and management processes. In this case study of a large Finnish local government organization, enterprise architecture (EA) is proposed as a tool for improving the coherency of the local government and its alignment to IT and other resources. We ask, what kind of EA descriptions local government agencies need for coherency management, and how to organize them. We apply action design research principles at the …
Polish local democracy in crisis? Non-competitive elections and the supply of candidates for councillors
2022
Competitive elections are the basis of democracy; without them there is no freedom of choice. Elections without competition are associated with the façade nature of elections in undemocratic systems. There are, however, exceptions to the belief that in a democratic system every election must be competitive. We can also observe them in Poland, particularly in small communes with up to 20,000 inhabitants. They take two forms: non-competitive elections of commune leaders and councillors. The latter case is known in the literature under the legal term of filling seats without voting. In 2018, as many as 8% of Polish councillors obtained their mandate without votes. In 2018 compared to 2014, the…
Growing Like Germany: Local Public Debt, Local Banks, Low Private Investment
2021
The paper uses a panel of more than 1m German firms over 2010-2016, to provide the first firm-bank level evidence of local crowding out for a developed economy characterized by low interest rates and fiscal austerity. Our mechanism relies on two structural features of Germany's banking landscape: the local segmentation of credit markets for small and medium-sized firms (SME) and the role of local public banks in local public finance. Local public banks dominate lending to small and medium firms in Germany and also have an explicit mandate to lend to the local public sector. With spreads on local government debt at all-time lows, local public banks tried to break even, using their market pow…
„Demokracja in Progress”. Działalność Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych na rzecz wzmacniania społeczeństwa obywatelskiego w Polsce
2016
Dyplomacja towarzyszy ludzkości od zarania dziejów i, podobnie jak polityka zagraniczna (z którą jest nieodłącznie kojarzona), podlega zmianom, adaptując się do zmienionych warunków środowiska międzynarodowego. Współczesny świat, który cechuje się znacznym stopniem skomplikowania, rosnącą liczebnością i różnorodnością aktorów międzynarodowych oraz sieciowością powiązań, tworzy zarówno dla polityki zagranicznej, jak i samej dyplomacji zupełnie nowe, nieznane dotąd wyzwania. Dzisiaj miarą ich efektywności jest stopień, w jakim odpowiedzialne za nie podmioty adaptują do swoich działań zasady dyplomacji publicznej. Ta ostatnia upodmiotowiła na arenie międzynarodowej niepaństwowych aktorów, nada…
The determinants and barriers of e-Government Adoption in the Municipality of Palermo
2014
La costante innovazione tecnologica fornisce nuovi spunti per la creazione di network efficienti e lo sviluppo di nuovi business. Anche la Pubblica Amministrazione (PA) vuole sfruttare tali opportunità. In particolare, la PA, attraverso l’implementazione di una strategia di e-Government può mirare a una maggiore efficienza, alla riduzione dell’errore umano e delle frodi. Tuttavia, non si tratta di un mero cambiamento di strumenti. Il passaggio a un’Amministrazione Digitale richiede un cambio di approccio manageriale. Partendo dalla somministrazione di un questionario (sul sito istituzionale del Comune di Palermo, 389 risposte utili) che ha confermato la poca consapevolezza dei cittadini rig…
Środowisko lokalne rzeczywistym determinantem rozwoju edukacji
2014
INCOME AND QUALITY OF LIFE INFLUENCE ON CITIZENS' PARTICIPATION IN ACTIVITIES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN LATVIA
2018
The aim of the paper is to analyse the factors influencing the citizen participation in activities of local governments in relation to quality of life in Latvia. The use of the CLEAR model, elaborated by a group of British researchers under guidance of Gerry Stoker, shows the possibilities of participation and engagement of citizens based on theoretical aspects. Latvia, as a member state of the EU, needs to develop and to involve more citizens in different social activities, since it has comparatively small experience in democratic processes due to its past of 50 years being a part of another country — the Soviet Union. The opportunities to participate in the European Parliament’s election …
A Choquet Integral Based Assessment Model of Projects of Urban Neglected Areas: A Case of Study
2014
This paper describes a multi-criteria evaluation model to support decisions related to the redevelopment of urban residual areas, a central theme in planning practices. Renewal projects on urban or neighborhood scale are complex problems because of the social, economic and environmental implications generated on the different categories of stakeholders. In the awareness of the specific characteristics of each city, the cognitive and evaluation model is especially defined for a given urban context, although it is easily adaptable to different urban ones. In order to take into account the interactions among the criteria by which we compare design alternatives, the Choquet integral is implemen…