Samorządy dużych polskich miast wobec recentralizacji – postawy i ich uwarunkowania. Studium okresu 2015–2023
Local Governments of Large Polish Cities in the Face of Recentralisation: Attitudes and Their Determinants. A Study of the Years 2015–2023

Summary/Abstract: In the article, we analyse the reactions of large Polish cities (over 100,000 inhabitants) to the (re)centralisation pres-sure of the central government in 2015–2023. Referring to the developed typology of these reactions, we attemptto measure the intensity of contestation on the part of cities and determine the variables that build the potential forexpressing such contestation. As measures of contestation, we use three variables: the city mayor’s participationin the Self-Government Movement “Yes! For Poland”, the adoption of a local in vitro programme and the presenceof a roundabout, square, or street named after Women’s Rights in the city. The independent variables were thecity’s size and wealth, the city mayor’s political affiliation, and the local electorate’s political preferences. The studyshowed that the city’s size and its citizens’ political preferences are the factors most strongly associated with thetendency to engage in conflictual behaviour towards government policies.

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