Regionalisation in Poland: background, features and public perception. A first appraisal
Up until the fall of the Iron Curtain Poland was institutionally and ideologically a unitary state. The accession process to the European Union enforced the adoption of necessary reforms of the administrative structures, which were undertaken in the 1990s. Since then Poland has developed a three-tie...
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2019-05-01
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| description | Up until the fall of the Iron Curtain Poland was institutionally and ideologically a unitary state. The accession process to the European Union enforced the adoption of necessary reforms of the administrative structures, which were undertaken in the 1990s. Since then Poland has developed a three-tier governance structure and enhanced the role of regional authorities by implementing regional development strategies and the managing of EU funds. Applying the theoretical concepts of regionalisation and regionalism, this paper seeks to analyse in the first part the decentralisation reforms in Poland and their major achievements and challenges. The second part of the article, based on the evaluation of national and EU polls, addresses the questions regarding citizen’s assessment of local authorities, regional policy, their attitude toward the EU and finally the feeling of attachment to locality/region, country or Europe. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a07b755f12d54317898ce62b163786892025-08-20T02:27:28ZengSociété Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of GeographyBelgeo1377-23682294-91352019-05-01210.4000/belgeo.34254Regionalisation in Poland: background, features and public perception. A first appraisalElżbieta OpiłowskaUp until the fall of the Iron Curtain Poland was institutionally and ideologically a unitary state. The accession process to the European Union enforced the adoption of necessary reforms of the administrative structures, which were undertaken in the 1990s. Since then Poland has developed a three-tier governance structure and enhanced the role of regional authorities by implementing regional development strategies and the managing of EU funds. Applying the theoretical concepts of regionalisation and regionalism, this paper seeks to analyse in the first part the decentralisation reforms in Poland and their major achievements and challenges. The second part of the article, based on the evaluation of national and EU polls, addresses the questions regarding citizen’s assessment of local authorities, regional policy, their attitude toward the EU and finally the feeling of attachment to locality/region, country or Europe.https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/34254regionalisationPolandidentificationEuropeanisationsub-national level |
| spellingShingle | Elżbieta Opiłowska Regionalisation in Poland: background, features and public perception. A first appraisal Belgeo regionalisation Poland identification Europeanisation sub-national level |
| title | Regionalisation in Poland: background, features and public perception. A first appraisal |
| title_full | Regionalisation in Poland: background, features and public perception. A first appraisal |
| title_fullStr | Regionalisation in Poland: background, features and public perception. A first appraisal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Regionalisation in Poland: background, features and public perception. A first appraisal |
| title_short | Regionalisation in Poland: background, features and public perception. A first appraisal |
| title_sort | regionalisation in poland background features and public perception a first appraisal |
| topic | regionalisation Poland identification Europeanisation sub-national level |
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