Political and legal framework of urban development 1900-SM-1-23
Contemporary cities are political communities with a considerable degree of local autonomy. A large part of the rules of urban politics is determined by the institutional architecture of local government system and the degree of decentralization. This course focuses on the institutional (political and legal) framework in which are embedded: local elected authorities, local administration and organized citizens.
The detailed list of topics covered:
(1) City as a unit of local government – local self-government and decentralization in contemporary democracies.
(2) Local autonomy and its dimensions. Can cities resist centralization?
(3) Public finances in cities – the role of urban finances in the state, the ideal system of local governmment financing.
(4) Public finances in cities – fiscal autonomy, a new system for funding municipal revenues in Poland.
(5) Forms of public service delivery in Poland – legal and financial frameworks.
(6) Municipal companies.
(7) Power in the city in selected theoretical approaches to urban politics.
(8) Institutionalization of the metropolitan governance.
Type of course
Mode
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Written assignment, based on the lectures and selected positions from the reading list.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
(detailed list is available on the Kampus e-learning platform):
H. Back i in. (red.), 2006, The European Mayor: Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenchaften.
B. Dolnicki, 2019, Samorząd terytorialny, Warszawa: LexisNexis
W. Dziemianowicz, K. Szmigiel-Rawska, P. Nowicka, A., 2012, Planowanie strategiczne. Poradnik dla pracowników administracji publicznej, Warszawa: Ministerstwo Rozwoju Regionalnego.
H. Heinelt i in. (red.), 2018, Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy: The European Mayor. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
M. Lackowska, 2009, Zarządzanie obszarami metropolitalnymi w Polsce: Między dobrowolnością a imperatywem. Warszawa: Wyd. UW
A. Ladner i in., 2019, Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave
P. Swianiewicz, 2011, Finanse samorządowe: koncepcje, realizacja, polityki lokalne, Warszawa: Municypium
K. Szmigiel-Rawska, 2017, Teorie współpracy terytorialnej: municipium oeconomicus versus municipium reciprocans. Warszawa: Wyd. Naukowe Scholar.
A complete list of references will be given during the first meeting.
Additional information
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