Intergovernmental Coordination in Portugal

• Authors: Teresa Ruel , Noémia Bessa Vilela , Natacha Jesus Silva , Zan Jan Oplotnik

Title variants

PL

Koordynacja działalności jednostek władzy publicznej w Portugalii

Abstracts

PL

Relacje pomiędzy jednostkami politycznymi – poziomami władzy publicznej – w strukturze wielopoziomowej mogą być zorganizowane według szeregu instytucji i procesów. Stosunki między podmiotami władzy publicznej oznaczają, że różne poziomy władzy publicznej wchodzą w interakcje ze swoimi aktorami politycznymi, tzn. organami wykonawczymi, parlamentami czy partiami politycznymi. Badania w tym zakresie zwykle dotyczą ustrojów federalnych, a pomijane są systemy unitarne. Należy przy tym stwierdzić, że realizacja kompetencji na poziomach zdecentralizowanych wymaga pewnego stopnia autonomii finansowej. Bez niej trudno jest mówić o samodzielności jednostek władzy publicznej na poziomie niższym od krajowego. Portugalia jest tego przykładem. Relacja czy koordynacja jednostek władzy publicznej pomiędzy zasadniczą częścią Portugalii a rządami regionalnymi (Azory i Madera) ma jak dotąd charakter głównie nieformalny. Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu zbadanie i zrozumienie roli aktorów politycznych w ramach takiej koordynacji działań władz publicznych oraz wspieranych przez nie mechanizmów instytucjonalnych.

EN

Relations between political units – levels of government – in a multilevel structure can be organized according to a range of institutions and processes. Intergovernmental relations suggest that the different levels of government interact with their political actors, namely executives, parliaments, or political parties. The research studies on this topic have concentrated attention on federal systems, and unitarian systems have been neglected. Next to that it must be stressed, that to exercise the competences of the decentralised levels there must be some sort of fiscal autonomy. Without fiscal autonomy, there can be no autonomy for subnational level of governments. Portugal illuminates this landscape. The intergovernmental relation or coordination between the Portugal mainland and the regional governments (Azores and Madeira) are mainly informal, so far. In this paper, we intend to explore and understand the role of political actors in such intergovernmental coordination and the institutional mechanisms they promote to that coordination.

Keywords

EN

intergovernmental coordination; political actors; fiscal autonomy; Portugal

PL

koordynacja działalności jednostek władzy publicznej; aktorzy polityczni; autonomia finansowa; Portugalia

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Studia Iuridica Lublinensia
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 31-42

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Teresa Ruel

• Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

author

Noémia Bessa Vilela

• OPHIZ – Research Institute, Slovenia

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Natacha Jesus Silva

• Portucalense University (Porto), Portugal

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Zan Jan Oplotnik

• University of Maribor, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/sil.2023.32.5.31-42

Biblioteka Nauki

31344081