Social Councils and Committees as (Not Quite) Present Actors in Local Decision-Making Process
Social Councils and Committees as (Not Quite) Present Actors in Local Decision-Making Process

Author(s): Agnieszka Pawłowska, Robert Kmieciak, Anna Kołomycew, Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak, Paweł Antkowiak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Governance, Public Administration, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar Sp. z o.o.
Summary/Abstract: Social councils and committees (SCs), the topic of this volume, cannot yet be called a well-researched matter, and – whether in Poland or internationally – very few analyses have focused on them, or have done so in a more than fragmentary fashion. Although they constitute a challenging subject, among other things due to their sometimes non-obligatory character, term limits, the availability of members, and diversity, we believe they deserve academic interest as well as the attention of the public and the third sector. SCs have the potential to become an important actor of the local decision-making process. This thread was the crucial element of our research, whose aim was primarily to define the impact of SCs on decision-making, as well as to describe the character of these entities, which in our view show features of participatory and deliberative solutions. Another major objective of our research was to identify the advantages of the participation of these bodies in the local decision-making process as well as to indicate the factors that hinder or prevent their potential as the participants of this process.

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