POLAND – EUROPEAN MODEL OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM
POLAND – EUROPEAN MODEL OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM

Summary/Abstract: Poland, a country become free, like Romania, has joined the process of democratic transition, the first reform via decentralization has been developed since 1990 and could serve as a model in the implementation of the decentralization reform, establishing a true institutional and financial decentralization. What we propose in this article is to analyze the way administrative-territorial decentralization of Poland, a country that was governed through centralized communist systems similar to Romania, has performed in implementing decentralization and local autonomy in the governance process of the local public administration. The European experience indicates that in order to succeed in reforms in the field of decentralization and local autonomy, it is necessary to divide territory into independent administrative-territorial units, able to govern themselves and manage their own public affairs.

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