Local self-governance in Poland and Ukraine

  • Iwona Koza Instytucie Matematyki i Informatyki Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej w Chełmie
Keywords: local government, democracy, decentralization

Abstract

One of the major conditions for effective functioning of the political system in a democratic state is to create a democratic form of non-governmental organization of public authority at the local level. This will make a full-fledged system of local government. Both Poland and Ukraine, more than 20 years consistently take steps to transition from the former socialist government structures to structures of the European Union. While the level in Poland, which still bears strong marks of the previous system, are districts – the second level of government, at Ukraine this issue refers to the whole local government sector.

One of the major conditions to ensure the effective functioning of the political system in the democratic country requires the establishment of the democratic institutions of the public self-governing power on the local level. It will allow building the self-sufficient system of the local self-governance. During the last 20 years, both Poland and Ukraine are consistently realizing the policy of transformation from the post-communist structures of the local self-governance towards the system operating in European Union. And if currently Poland has ‘districts’, which are functioning as a middle level in the sytem of the local self-governance with the typical features of the previous old system, Ukraine has an issue across all sectors of the local self-governance.

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Published
2019-02-22
How to Cite
Koza, I. (2019). Local self-governance in Poland and Ukraine. Administrative Law and Process, (3(5), 234-241. Retrieved from https://applaw.net/index.php/journal/article/view/550