Reforma modelu rad narodowych czy ustanowienie samorządu terytorialnego? Samorządowe dyskusje w schyłkowym okresie PRL (1980–1989)
Reform of the National Council Model or the Establishment of Local Self-Government?: Self-Government Debates in the Declining Period of the People’s Republic of Poland (1980–1989)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the considerations undertaken was to analyse the discussions concerning self-govern-ment, and in particular local self-government, conducted in the pages of official publications published during the communist period. The time frame covered the period from the emergence of „Solidarity” in 1980 to the Round Table Talks, in which discussions were held first in the Polit-ical Reform Team and then a sub-table for local government issues was established, but without taking the latter event into account. The cognitive aim was to seek answers to the following research questions: 1) why did the idea of local self-govern-ment, especially in the second half of the 1980s, i.e., in the period of exhaustion of the state model of the time, not interest decision-making circles to a greater extent and, consequently, did not lead to a broader discussion? 2) how did opinion-making circles understand the concept of local self-govern-ment? 3) what vision related to the reconstructionof local self-government was presented? 4) what scope, competences and what role was envisaged for this institution? 5) did these visions specify how local government would be financed? and 6) was the transformation of the electoral system also undertaken in connection with the assumed discussions?

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