Book review: “Local Government: A Politological Study”, ed. Joanna Marszałek–Kawa, Wydawnictwo Duet, Toruń 2007, pp. 262

• Authors: Mariusz Popławski

Abstracts

EN

The history of local government on Polish territories is not shorter or less fascinating than in other European countries. However, political obstacles, military conflicts, changes in the statehood system or finally its loss caused that what wherever else is the basis for further development of local democracy in Poland has to be built from the start. I mean here of course the long-lasting tradition of independent shaping and strengthening patterns, views and visions of local & regional self-governance, of which chance to fully develop Poland had not have. The socio-political reality of today’s 3rd Republic is a dynamically evolving country, which due to the rapidness of that change demands strong support from its finest researchers and scientists. The goal set for them is to present a wide range of concepts that will allow to program the future direction of progress. This way the necessary fundaments for Polish democracy at the regional and local level, and a tradition of discussion and sustainable development is born. In my opinion a good attempt to take part of the mentioned responsibility was the book edited by PhD Joanna Marszałek-Kawa from University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Torun, Poland.

Keywords

PL

Mariusz Popławski

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 37
• Pages: 224-227

Dates

published

2008

Contributors

author

Mariusz Popławski

• University of Białystok

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2008018

Biblioteka Nauki

2027949