A participatory budgeting is a form of direct democracy, which in Poland has been gaining more and more popularity and is used in many local government units. The purpose of this article is, on one hand, to present the ...

In Poland the process of decentralization of power started in 1990.As a consequence it resulted in the restoration of local government. The efficiency and effectiveness of the decentralized political system is directly ...

The article is devoted to the restoration of local and regional self-governments in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.The author shows the main directions of formation the local government administration in the ...

The starting point for the present research paper is the concept of civic competence, which was originally formulated by R. Dahl. In the adopted model civic competence is viewed as a four-dimensional construct consisting ...

The problem of formation of state institutions in the post-Soviet states is one of the most pressing issues in modern political science study of the region of Eastern Europe. However, very often the problems related to the ...