Social dialogue during enlargement: The case of Poland and Estonia

Grosse, Tomasz Grzegorz

doi:10.1057/ap.2009.32

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“…Whilst the legal basis for municipal associations was straightforward, cross-sectoral partnership-based forms of cooperation faced a more difficult legal environment. The main problem was the absence of any legal framework of cooperation within which self-governments, voluntary organisations and business could participate on an equal basis, and there was often a lack of public government interest in co-operating with non-state actors in practice, especially if this meant transferring competences involving the management of public funds or having NGOs participating in decision making [91,92]. The Law on Associations allowed the creation of civil associations (in which only individual persons are full members) and, separately, municipal associations (in which only municipalities are members).…”

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“…This is perhaps not surprising as NGOs and local governments have often been on opposing sides in spatial planning conflicts [101,102]. Democratisation after 1990 gave local communities in Poland new freedoms and responsibilities, but modes of behaviour associated with the socialist system did not disappear and tended to co-exist alongside the new organisation of the state, as noted by Regulska [103] and Grosse [92]. Nonetheless, voluntary organisations did develop strong relationships with local authorities so that by the end of the 1990s local authorities had emerged as the most common supporter of NGOs [100].…”

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From Single-Use Community Facilities Support to Integrated Sustainable Development: The Aims of Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Poland, 1990–2018

Furmankiewicz

Campbell

2019

Sustainability

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The paper explores and compares the aims of the three most common legal forms of inter-municipal cooperation in Poland (engaging rural, urban-rural and urban municipalities) during the years 1990-2018: Mono-sectoral Special Purpose Unions, Municipal Associations and cross-sectoral Local Action Groups. Content analysis was applied and development priorities from the statutes and strategies were studied. The main form of territorial association evolved from, initially, mono-functional bodies concerned mainly with local infrastructural investment and managed solely by a group of local authorities, to a devolved type, consisting of multi-purpose associations managed with the participation of economic and third sector representatives. This was the result of the European Union policy of promoting territorial governance and integrated development in functional regions, this being considered as part of the process of Europeanisation. However, these successive forms of municipal cooperation do not appear to have replaced the pre-existing forms, but they have introduced additional modes of governance of local resources. The findings show that the most "integrated" and "sustainable" management of local resources is observed mainly in cross-sectoral partnerships, like Local Action Groups, but not so often in mono-sectoral municipal unions and associations led solely by local government and focused more on hard infrastructure and municipal facilities. However, given the specialisation shown by each of the three types of association, it is likely that the full range of development possibilities in the areas concerned can only be realised if all three forms of cooperation are present. The analysis confirms the positive role of local economic and social sector participation in shaping sustainable development. The findings also indicate the utility of the concept of cross-sectoral territorial partnerships in post-socialist and post-authoritarian countries lacking traditions of grassroots or participative development.Sustainability 2019, 11, 5890 2 of 21 be seen as facilitating a "neo-endogenous" or "integrated place based" model of development, in contrast to a top-down, exogenous and sectoral model focusing on single issues such as transport or agriculture and managed solely by government [4][5][6]. The place-based, neo-endogenous model implies central government support for regional and local bottom-up initiatives for development and well-being, facing one particular territory (natural or economic region, agglomeration, etc.), often requiring cooperation between stakeholders from fragmented administrative areas [7][8][9]. Integrated planning in this context is understood to involve drawing together local social, economic and ecological issues, rather than focusing only on, for instance, technical infrastructure [10]. It is often closely related to "sustainable" development, which involves an additional concern with long-term retention of local natural resources [11][12][13]. In the countries where these processes first emerged,...

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From Single-Use Community Facilities Support to Integrated Sustainable Development: The Aims of Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Poland, 1990–2018

Furmankiewicz

Campbell

2019

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“…According to Grosse (2010), the combination of the quick transfer of new norms and the fact that these norms are not subject to subsequent change by local actors leads to a negative impact on social dialogue in new EU member states. As a result, this can have a negative impact on effectiveness and legitimacy of public policies in general, not only to those related to transferred EU norms.…”

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The Role of European Union Integration in Post-Communist Democratization in Bulgaria and Macedonia

Mitropolitski¹

2013

Canadian Slavonic Papers

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“…Most analyses focus on just two out of the ten new member states, namely Poland and Hungary as the biggest and most prominent accession countries of the 2004 enlargement. At the same time, most case studies focus on policy fields where non-state actors are especially active and where the European Union has substantial competences, namely environment (Börzel 2009;Börzel and Buzogany 2010;Carmin 2010;Hallstrom 2004;Hicks 2004;Pleines and Bušková 2007), labour and social affairs (Einbock and Lis 2007;Grosse 2010;Kusznir and Pleines 2008;Sissenich 2006), and, to a much lesser degree, gender policy (Fuchs and Payer 2007;Kakucs 2009;Sudbery 2010), business regulation (Koutalakis 2010), agricultural policy (Pleines 2007;Yakova 2007) and regional development (Gąsior-Niemiec 2007;Gąsior-Niemiec and Gliński 2007).…”

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The New Politics of European Civil Society

Liebert¹,

Trenz²

2012

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Social dialogue during enlargement: The case of Poland and Estonia

Cited by 12 publications

References 19 publications

From Single-Use Community Facilities Support to Integrated Sustainable Development: The Aims of Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Poland, 1990–2018

From Single-Use Community Facilities Support to Integrated Sustainable Development: The Aims of Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Poland, 1990–2018

The Role of European Union Integration in Post-Communist Democratization in Bulgaria and Macedonia

The New Politics of European Civil Society

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