Success or failure? The functioning of auxiliary units on the example of the city of Gdańsk Cover Image

Sukces czy porażka społeczności lokalnych? – funkcjonowanie jednostek pomocniczych, na przykładzie miasta Gdańska
Success or failure? The functioning of auxiliary units on the example of the city of Gdańsk

Author(s): Beata Słobodzian
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Governance, Public Administration, Sociology, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: local government; auxiliary units; participation

Summary/Abstract: The auxiliary units of Gdansk have become a permanent element of its structure. On the basis of the adopted legal measures, local authorities are not obliged to establish auxiliary units (but in Gdynia it is obligatory to appoint auxiliary units), but it follows from the grassroots activities of citizens. The mechanism of forming auxiliary units has become a means of inhabitants participating in municipal life. The unique functioning of the Gdańsk auxiliary units relies on their ongoing transformation, caused by multiple amendments of local laws. The above is a result of searching for the best solutions. Above all, multiple actions undertaken by the local government are focused on the stabilisation, as well as improvement of the functioning of auxiliary units.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 119-130
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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