Agnieszka Pawlowska

Rzeszów University · Institute of Political Science

The article complements literature on advisory councils, and in particular their involvement in the policymaking process. The author examines the AC roles by referring to the concept of the roles set. In addition to ACs conventional roles of providing opinions and advice, there are other roles, which are classified as roles prescription and roles p...

Urban governance (UG) is a place-based network of cooperation between public and non-public actors where public authorities play a strategic role in deciding on city matters. A number of UG actors include advisory councils (ACs), characterized by a long tradition, universality, stability and objectives related to urban affairs. The article aims to...

O cyklach integracji, dezintegracji i reintegracji w życiu politycznym

Advisory councils (ACs) are permanent opinion-giving bodies that are established by public authorities. Their members are recruited from among residents, local officials, and members of NGOs. The author argues that, apart from their opinion-giving function, ACs perform the role of citizen representatives. The research was based on the survey of AC...

The paper draws on the empirical findings of the research exploring the functions of local advisory councils (ACs). ACs are conceptualized as the form of participation placed between ‘advising and opinion-giving’ and ‘co-governance’ according to Fung’s approach (2006). Youth councils, senior citizen councils, and councils for residents with disabil...

Social councils (SCs) are local collegial actors formally created by local authorities as consultative bodies for different policy issues. The main objective of this article is to define the role of SCs in collaborative governance (CG). The paper is based on the quantitative research conducted in 65 Polish cities. The research is focused on the mem...

Local advisory councils (LACs) are defined as collegial bodies that are anchored in local communities (representing public institutions, NGOs, social groups, business, and individuals), and are established by local authorities for opinion-giving purposes. The authors claim that LACs have deliberative potential and can perform different roles in de-...

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie roli rządu federalnego jako jednego z aktorów uczestniczących w polityce rozwoju miast amerykańskich w latach 1965-2012. Paradoks implementacji, rozumiany jako ograniczenie możliwości osiągania celów polityk krajowych w związku z poszerzeniem kompetencji potencjalnych oponentów tych polityk (Stoker 1991) oraz zmi...

Pojęciem lokalnego współrządzenia (local governance) określane są rozmaite formy włączania mieszkańców w proces podejmowania decyzji i świadczenia usług publicznych. Zakres w jakim obywatele mogą uczestniczyć w rządzeniu miejscowością, którą zamieszkują zależy od warunków: prawno-instytucjonalnych (na ile regulacje rangi konstytucyjnej i ustawowej,...

The diversity and variability of the forms of local government in the United States is a function of the federal form of the state and the broad powers of state authorities towards their administrative units, but also flexible legal solutions that enable citizens to influence the form of local government and their pragmatic attitude towards institu...

Over recent decades, many European countries have witnessed a transformation of local representative democracy. This has resulted both from the reforms inspired by the concepts of New Public Management, local governance, structural and functional changes as well as the expanding mechanisms of citizen participation. The latter trend is especially vi...

Celem artykułu jest zdiagnozowanie sytuacji okręgów szkolnych w odniesieniu do polityki edukacyjnej rozwijającej się na poziomie stanów i federacji. Autorka stawia hipotezę o malejącej - pod wpływem zmieniających się warunków prawnych i finansowych - autonomii okręgów szkolnych jako jednostek samorządu terytorialnego. Przedstawione zostały organy o...

Governance is a popular theoretical approach in the social sciences. However, it involves a number of definitional and theoretical problems. The issue of the ambiguity of the concept and the numerous attempts to recognize the complexity of reality in its framework is subject to criticism. A categorization of numerous definitions of governance is pr...

The book presents a broad perspective of local government in the US. It refers to its traditions, legal basis, variety of units, local democracy and institutions, as well as tasks and finances. The first broad chapter is dedicated to the traditions of American local government. In spite of numerous alterations, local institutions in the US maintain...

Collaborative governance (co-governance) is one of the numerous “governance-like” concepts used here for only descriptive rather than explanatory purposes. It is regarded as the organisational setting where territorial (also called „area-based”) partnerships—being, alongside local government, the core issue of the present paper—are located. Area-ba...

The article presents intersectoral partnerships forming Local Action Groups, and analyzes the mechanisms of emergence of such partnerships in the Podkarpackie region, particularly factors contributing to their emergence, their initiators and partner-recruitment methods, as well as the relations of partnerships with their social milieu, decision-mak...

This paper considers a variety of aspects in the development of e-services in Poland. National e-government strategies as well as legal regulations that prepare the organizational conditions of electronic services delivery are presented. The authors refer to the state of electronic services development in Poland. They base their considerations on t...

In spite of rich experience in ICT projects' management, a considerable number of them fail. Success of ICT projects is even further endangered in transitional countries, where two parallel processes of informatization and re-engineering of public institutions is taking place. Measures of successful ICT projects' management are defined in strategic...

Celem rozdziału jest opisanie związku i roli informacji z działaniami lobbingowymi.

The paper addresses the issue of information technology use in public administration of the country that only a decade ago started to build both its public administration and IT infrastructure. The process of creating institutions serving the people rather than politics was launched at first on the local level. Consequently, the local level is the...