Gminny podział administracyjny w świetle 25 lat funkcjonowania samorządu terytorialnego w Polsce
The municipal administrative division in the light of 25 years of local government in Poland

Summary/Abstract: This paper seeks to present the changes in Poland’s territorial division and assess it at the local level (communes). The reference point is provided by the territorial reforms of other EU states, especially those with a three-tier structure, like in Poland. The basic thesis is that the territorial organization of public administration should change so as to keep up with political, economic, social and spatial processes, the latter bearing special importance for this. The paper concludes with recommendations for ways of changing local administrative structures, such as combining, or fusions of urban and rural communes.

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