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THE CONCEPT OF STATE CAPACITY AND ITS APPLICATION TO POLISH PRACTICES (Koncepcja 'state capacity' i jej odniesienie do wspólczesnej praktyki politycznej)

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Grosse T. G.
Studia Polityczne (Political Studies)
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2007
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issue 20
35-62
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The accepted definition of the term state capacity places emphasis on preserving the potential for the effective implementation of public policy in the face of changing external and internal conditions. There are three categories of development to which this understanding of the state's potential is applicable: (1) to the assuring of the basic functions of the state with regard to the political and economic systems of a given country; (2) to the assuring of the economic competitiveness of the country within the global economy and (3) to a given country's effective joining of regional integration processes. In the era of globalisation, a particularly essential aspect of the state's potential is the building of new potential for the country's economic development, including the forecasting of growth trends in a high-technology economy and the creation of conditions appropriate to the stimulation of the development processes in line with those trends. Also of great importance is the appropriate adjustment of the national model of capitalism to conditions of global competitiveness. Those states whose political system underwent a transformation found themselves in a particular situation; having discarded the economic institutions of socialism, they were forced to make radical changes to the economic model. This led to the adoption of institutions which mirrored those from outside without sufficiently adapting those institutions to local conditions and, more often than not, without proper concern for the cost of reform to the home economy. A further stumbling-block for these countries was that the very serious challenge of transformation coincided with a low level of state resources. An additional factor in the diminishing of state capacity was the state's withdrawal from a great many areas of social life as a result of the 'flight' from the model of the socialist state.
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THE DILEMMAS OF GOOD GOVERNANCE. CONCLUSIONS FOR POLAND (Dylematy dobrego rzadzenia (good governance). Wnioski dla Polski)

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Grosse T. G.
Studia Polityczne (Political Studies)
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2009
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issue 23
113-150
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The article aims to initiate a discussion regarding the development of a strategy of good governance within the Polish administration. In particular, it concerns the presentation of the most significant definitions of the concept and its practical operationalism within the work of international organisations and selected states. As definitions of the concept under discussion are repeatedly ambiguous, the article emphasises the experience of the EU, the World Bank and some of the EU member states. An analysis of international experience demonstrates the frequency with which the terms 'good governance' is linked not only with an administration's effective functioning, but also with the potential for seeing through determined political objectives, defined in the literature as 'state capacity'. The article deals solely with an analysis of these two terms and with the presentation of proposals for future work on the Polish administration.
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POLISH MEMBERSHIP IN THE EUROPEAN UNION BALANCE - BETWEEN EUROPEANIZATION AND THE INFLUENCE OF POLITICAL CULTURE (Bilans polskiego czlonkostwa w Unii Europejskiej. Miedzy europeizacja a wplywem kultury politycznej)

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Grosse T. G.
Myśl Ekonomiczna i Polityczna
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2010
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issue 1(28)
93-128
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The article is aimed at analyzing some selected features of Polish political culture and the impact of Europeanization processes on the development of democracy. Polish political culture is not exclusively a product of recent years, thus it has not been developed since the introduction of democratic institutions after 1989. It is an outcome of the former historical experiences to a greater extent than it is commonly assumed. In the present article,the author is going to present mutual influence of local political culture (and administrative tradition) and Europeanization due to which the Polish membership in the European Union balance must be treated in a less enthusiastic way than it is commonly believed. He is especially going to present examples referring to three areas: 1) the development of a vision of strategic actions; 2) implementation difficulties within the European policy; 3) difficulties in undertaking network co-operation in the European Union. In those areas, the positive influence of Europeanization is blocked by cultural phenomena connected with the experience of a lack of a sovereign state and the treatment of a state as a common good of all the Poles. Moreover, Europeanization strengthened particular ideas and political organizations which contributed to the development of the Polish political arena.
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PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS: EXAMPLES OF ANTI-CRISIS ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN 2008 - 2009 (Wladze publiczne wobec kryzysu gospodarczego: przyklady dzialan antykryzysowych podejmowanych w latach 2008 - 2009)

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Grosse T. G.
Myśl Ekonomiczna i Prawna
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2009
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issue 2(25)
57-107
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The aim of the present work is the analysis and comparison of the most important foreign experiences in the field of anti-crisis activities undertaken in the years 2008 - 2009 in the USA, Germany, France, Poland and the European Union. Information about anti-crisis policies was collected from press and official publications (source materials) and analysts' commentaries available in specialist and scientific literature. The starting point is a statement that anti-crisis activities should be carried out in a long-term, not short-term perspective. Moreover, the keynote idea of the article is the assumption that every well constructed development policy should connect a strategic component (based on long standing strategy) with a possibility of flexible reactions to new circumstances, including crisis situations. It requires an adequate addition of new operational instruments to the development policy and a connection of long-term activities with the short-term ones. Finally, the author presented the most important conclusions concerning the different approaches of the analyzed public authorities to anti-crisis policy.
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