Verwaltungsreform in Polen
Administrative Reforms in Poland

Summary/Abstract: In I950, local self government was abolished by the administrative reform, in 1973 it was reintroduced, though with considerable limitations. The leading functionaries are not elected but appointed, they are state officials. According to tradition, it is the party's local first secretaries who are made chairmen of the corresponding local administrations; this leads to the interlacing of state and party apparatus. The state is the gainer, while the party must adjust itself to the new situation. Contrary to the Marxist doctrine of the withering away of the state, commentators accompany the reform by insisting on the need for a strong state.

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