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Wzorce kulturowe, formalne instytucje a partnerstwo i dialog
Cultural patterns, formal institutions vs. partnership and dialogue

Author(s): Jacek Sroka
Subject(s): Politics, Social Sciences, Public Administration, Public Law
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: partnership; dialogue; co-decision; cultural institutionalisation; formal institutions

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article poses a few questions and proposes some answers concerning cultural applicability of the partnership and dialogue institutions. The core of the mentioned problem revolves around the ability of cultural adaptation of the formal EU norms. The theory and method used in the analysis is aim-functional which is oriented on the research into concrete cultural enclosing of formal institutions. The empirical thread of the argument is the Polish case of partnership and dialogue institutions in the European structural and investment funds. The text presents an attempt to supplement a discussion about the direction and shape of the public policy with significant threads which are often being pushed to the margin of analytical attention and public practice. On one hand, the goal, method and style of narration refers to the patterns of the participatory models of public policy known from the publications of Western authors. On the other, to the Polish empirical analyses and theoretical generalizations. The main thesis is simple as repercussion of day and night, but still seems not well understood: the predominance of cultural institutions over formal ones. It brings result in requirement of modifying the mutual relations towards more partnership and deliberative.

  • Issue Year: 15/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 25-46
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English, Polish