Article 2025
Authors / editors: Tomasz Brzezicki, Paweł Majka, Jacek Wantoch-Rekowski
Published in: Acta Iuris Stetinensis
The purpose of the study is to point out the flawed legislative solutions adopted in the resolutions of municipal councils on the dog ownership fee. The study is based on the dogmatic-legal method. The analysis is given to the resolutions of the municipal councils on the introduc…
DOI: 10.18276/ais.2025.54-01 · ISSN: 2083-4373
Chapter 2025
Authors / editors: Agnieszka Smalec, Marzena Wanagos, Agata Niemczyk, Eva Benková
Published in: Intelligent Management and Artificial Intelligence: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities, Vol.2
Purpose: The aim of this article is to indicate the role of artificial intelligence in local governments, mainly how smart technologies improve city management and communication with residents. Analyzing different applications of AI, it is emphasized how intelligent systems contr…
DOI: 10.18276/978-83-8419-053-1-33 · ISBN: 978-83-8419-053-1
Chapter 2025
Authors / editors: Hubert Pachciarek, Maciej Drzonek
Published in: Intelligent Management and Artificial Intelligence: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities, Vol.1
Purpose: The purpose of the article is to examine the awareness of cyber security threats in the era of hybrid warfare among councillors of selected 21 medium and large Polish cities from the West Pomeranian and Subcarpathia provinces.
Need for the study: In the era of hybrid …
DOI: 10.18276/978-83-8419-028-9-30 · ISBN: 978-83-8419-028-9
Monograph 2025
Authors / editors: Agnieszka Alińska, Dominika Kordela, Ewelina Mielech, Dawid Czesyk
Published in: Rozprawy i Studia
Financial instruments in supporting the sustainable development of cities and regions
The main objective of this publication is to present selected instruments of sustainable development financing with a particular focus on cities and regions. The monograph starts with a systema…
DOI: 10.18276/978-83-7972-990-6 · ISBN: 978-83-7972-989-0 · ISSN: 0860-2751
Monograph 2025
Authors / editors: Bartosz Wilk
Published in: Rozprawy i Studia
Individual information rights of a councillor
The aim of the monograph is to answer the research question whether the introduction of individual information rights of councillor, which took place under the Act of 11 January 2018, had a positive impact on the legal status of coun…
DOI: 10.18276/978-83-8419-037-1 · ISBN: 978-83-8419-036-4 · ISSN: 0860-2751
Article 2024
Authors / editors: Abdulrasheed Abdulyakeen, Muhammad Rabiu
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
The paper examined and articulated some measurable instruments and conditions for effective management of autonomy for local government in Nasarawa State. This is with a view to investigating the challenges of efficient and effective management of this level of government. The me…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2024.57-01 · ISSN: 2451-0432
Monograph 2024
Authors / editors: Dawid Czesyk
Published in: Rozprawy i Studia
Social participation in shaping the territorial division of the state
The territorial division of the state constitutes an element of its system. It serves the purposes of proper organization of the state and its bodies, ensuring effective completion of public tasks. It enables …
DOI: 10.18276/978-83-7972-817-6 · ISBN: 978-83-7972-816-9 · ISSN: 0860-2751
Monograph 2024
Authors / editors: Małgorzata Gorzałczyńska-Koczkodaj, Krystyna Nizioł, Elżbieta Ociepa-Kicińska
Published in: Rozprawy i Studia
The decentralization of local government and the introduction in Poland of its three-tier division has been linked to the assignment to municipalities, counties and provinces of the implementation of certain public tasks, performed as own or commissioned tasks. The literature of …
DOI: 10.18276/978-83-7972-677-6 · ISBN: 978-83-7972-676-9 · ISSN: 0860-2751
Article 2023
Authors / editors: Daniel Wacinkiewicz, Joanna Bigos
Published in: Acta Iuris Stetinensis
The article adresses the legal interest of a unit of local government in the perspective of the so-called territorial regulation. The subjective scope of the considerations covers the municipality, poviat and self-governing voivodeship, which obliges to search for the sources of …
DOI: 10.18276/ais.2023.46-02 · ISSN: 2083-4373
Article 2023
Authors / editors: Mateusz Kowalewski
Published in: Studia Administracyjne
The primary objective of strategic diagnosis is to identify the most important features, resources, potentials, local problems and its environment for the purpose of planning a long-term development policy. In 2020, legislative changes were introduced that regulated issues relate…
DOI: 10.18276/sa.2023.18-02 · ISSN: 2080-5209
Article 2023
Authors / editors: Rafał Czyżycki, Elżbieta Ociepa-Kicińska, Jacek Rodzinka, Tomasz Skica
Published in: Studia Maritima
Municipalities play a particularly important role, including in creating appropriate living conditions and organising the proper functioning and development of the economy. Taking into account the specifics of coastal municipalities, we verify how the activities of coastal munici…
DOI: 10.18276/sm.2023.36-03 · ISSN: 0137-3587
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Bartosz Wilk
Published in: Acta Iuris Stetinensis
The title “spiral of formalism” is understood as a situation in which legislative intervention, justified by the elimination of legal barriers, does not solve the essence of the problem, and
causes additional formal barriers. The “spiral of formalism” can be analyzed in the wide…
DOI: 10.18276/ais.2022.38-11 · ISSN: 2083-4373
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Katarzyna Śpiewok, Łukasz Dąbrówka, Krzysztof Jaszczołt
Published in: Europa Regionum
The aim of this article is to show the benefits of using a structured approach to reviewing the management system in local government units using the self-assessment method. The origins of self-assessment tools in Polish local administration were presented. Authors are analyzing …
DOI: 10.18276/er.2022.38-17 · ISSN: 1428-278X
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Katarzyna Śpiewok
Published in: Europa Regionum
The article outlines the differences between monitoring and evaluation and identifies the most important features of a mature process of monitoring and evaluation of strategies (plans, programmes). Based on an OECD report (OECD, 2021), the author identifies the most common weakne…
DOI: 10.18276/er.2022.38-16 · ISSN: 1428-278X
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Jarosław Komża, Justyna Wieczorkiewicz-Molendo
Published in: Europa Regionum
The article refers to key rules and ways of implementing a development strategy. In other words, it concentrates on the organization of the strategy implementation as a part of the territorial unit management. It describes system solutions, focusing on the development undertaking…
DOI: 10.18276/er.2022.38-15 · ISSN: 1428-278X
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Daniel Budzeń
Published in: Europa Regionum
The purpose of this paper is to present the approach of the Association of Polish Cities to the financial analysis of development projects planned by local government units in Poland. The applied solution is characterised by a comprehensive analysis of budget data including finan…
DOI: 10.18276/er.2022.38-14 · ISSN: 1428-278X
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Grzegorz Kaczmarek, Iwona Borkowska
Published in: Europa Regionum
The article addresses the issue of access to social knowledge (self-knowledge) about managed communities by the local government administration and the ability to use it. Based on research and consultancy experience, the authors argue that social research, undertaken and inspired…
DOI: 10.18276/er.2022.38-06 · ISSN: 1428-278X
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Janusz Szewczuk
Published in: Europa Regionum
The article proposes a practically oriented concept to integrate the development management system of a municipality. For this purpose, it identifies the key stages of implementation and functioning of the development management system, which are: 1) organization of the process; …
DOI: 10.18276/er.2022.38-04 · ISSN: 1428-278X
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Jarosław Górski, Tomasz Potkański, Ryszard Grobelny
Published in: Europa Regionum
The article introduces the topics of the following papers. The subject of this introductory article is the current challenges in defining a model of development of Polish territorial self-government units. Special attention will be paid to the identification of conditions and cha…
DOI: 10.18276/er.2022.38-01 · ISSN: 1428-278X
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Peter Odion Irabor, Samuel Iheanacho Ebirim, Idowu Folorunso Aloba
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
Primary Health Care (PHC) is implemented by the local governments in Nigeria based on the notion that healthcare service delivery is efficient when it is closer to people. With the adoption of analytical research through secondary sources of data, this study assesses the local go…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2022.54-08 · ISSN: 2451-0432
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Krzysztof Kłak
Published in: Studia Administracyjne
The aim of this study is to present and assess the methods of public management in local government units. For this purpose, the author used the dogmatic-legal method and analyzed the literature. The sources supporting the budget and its expenses have been indicated. This article…
DOI: 10.18276/sa.2022.15-05 · ISSN: 2080-5209
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Jacek Knopek, Ewa Maria Włodyka
Published in: Przegląd Zachodniopomorski
The contemporary local governments in the public sphere face the need to undertake multiple actions in response to the existing social problems. In order to solve these problems, The West Pomeranian units of local government use the normative, confidence-based forms of inter-sect…
DOI: 10.18276/pz.2020.1-06 · ISSN: 0552-4245
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Grażyna Gadomska
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
The environment is in constant relationship with the man who uses his resources. The article
presents the specificity of municipal self-government tasks in the field of environmental protec- tion in the context of broadly understood integration processes. To achieve this goal, a…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2020.49-03 · ISSN: 2451-0432
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Marek Stawecki
Published in: Studia Administracyjne
The Act of 21 August 1997 on real estate management specifies two modes in which real estate which is property of the State Treasury or of a local government unit can be transferred or given in perpetual usufruct – a tender and non-tender mode. The real estate resources are the b…
DOI: 10.18276/sa.2019.11-08 · ISSN: 2080-5209
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Bartosz Namieciński
Published in: Studia Administracyjne
The aim of this article is to bring closer the issues related to the functioning of villages – auxiliary units of a commune characteristic for rural areas. The study indicates the legal basis for the functioning of these units, starting with the Constitution, through statutory ac…
DOI: 10.18276/sa.2019.11-06 · ISSN: 2080-5209
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Jakub Baranowski
Published in: Studia Administracyjne
A growing awareness of civic participation resulted in the fact that, at the turn of the 20th and 21st century, local authorities of the world’s countries decided to hand over some social tools to citizens. This article presents one of the most important participatory tools – par…
DOI: 10.18276/sa.2019.11-01 · ISSN: 2080-5209
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Andrzej Ranke
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
Political processes implemented at the level of local government and the party’s local
government policy show significant differences. Therefore, it is important to address
the issue of the political role of self-government leaders. Leaders of cities are an example
of such lea…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2019.47-03 · ISSN: 2451-0432
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Marzena Wanagos, Izabela Grajek-Czabajska
Published in: Ekonomiczne Problemy Usług
The main task of the territorial self-government is to manage resources positively. The management process includes both the creation of specific goods and services, but also their proper use. The presented study is an attempt to initiate a discussion on the problems of tourist p…
DOI: 10.18276/epu.2018.133/1-27 · ISSN: 1896-382X
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Piotr Staszak
Published in: Ekonomiczne Problemy Usług
The development of tourism in the region is based on the activities of various business entities, organizations and institutions. All of them form a broadly understood system of the local tourist economy, the efficiency and effectiveness of which determines the level of tourism d…
DOI: 10.18276/epu.2018.133/1-24 · ISSN: 1896-382X
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Paweł Reczulski
Published in: Ekonomiczne Problemy Usług
Local government units maintain a strict and inflexible budgetary policy, very often insufficient for the tasks and objectives set out in the scope of spending funds for the implementation of the most important needs. State budget determination mechanisms for a given local govern…
DOI: 10.18276/epu.2018.133/1-21 · ISSN: 1896-382X