CO-PRODUCTION OF PUBLIC SERVICES IN RURAL AREAS – THE POLISH WAY?
CO-PRODUCTION OF PUBLIC SERVICES IN RURAL AREAS – THE POLISH WAY?

Author(s): Jarosław Olejniczak, Dorota Bednarska-Olejniczak
Subject(s): Civil Society, Governance, Public Administration, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: co-production; civil society; public services; Poland; solecki fund;
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present the structure of sołecki fund as a solution that promotes governance and co-production of public services, as well as to analyse the use of this tool by urban-rural communes in Poland in the years 2014-2017. The basic research method consisted of statistical analysis of the data made available in the Central Statistic Office Local Data Bank concerning the scale and directions of expenses of the examined 621 communes within sołecki funds. The vast majority of communes, in which the sołecki funds functioned, implemented within their framework the tasks in the scope of transport and communication, municipal management and environmental protection, culture and protection of national heritage (in above 80% of all). It can be noticed that there is a strong diversification of directions of the sołecki funds’ expenses between the regions, also it can be noticed in 2014, in some regions the percentage of communes with sołecki funds constituted approx. 50%, while in 2017 in most of them it exceeded 70%.

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