Polish Regional Elite Career Paths and the Impact of a Multilevel System

This paper aims to investigate the multilevel careers of members of Polish regional executives from the first direct election to regional parliaments in 1998 until the end of 2014. Formation of self-government in regions is assumed to have started the process of formation of the multilevel system in...

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Autor principal:	Majchierkiewicz Tatiana
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2020
Materias:	regional politicians regional self-government regional careers multilevel system central government local government Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2489deef07d441bfa6a9c44f3acd01722021-12-02T19:10:28ZPolish Regional Elite Career Paths and the Impact of a Multilevel System1801-342210.2478/pce-2020-0013https://doaj.org/article/2489deef07d441bfa6a9c44f3acd01722020-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2020-0013https://doaj.org/toc/1801-3422This paper aims to investigate the multilevel careers of members of Polish regional executives from the first direct election to regional parliaments in 1998 until the end of 2014. Formation of self-government in regions is assumed to have started the process of formation of the multilevel system in Poland. Consequently, political career paths began to be diversified and to take place at more than one level. Among the factors with a critical impact on the specificity of Polish regional careers was the fact that regionalisation was preceded by local government reform (1990), and it was assumed that the local elite would become its natural recruitment base. On the one hand, the challenge to the development of the multilevel system has to be recognised. First, regional politics has undergone rather limited professionalisation (only positions in regional executives are full-time political jobs). Second, the legacy of communist centralisation resulted in lukewarm regional decentralisation in 1998. However, one can observe a certain increased prominence of self-government due to access to EU funds and increased financial autonomy. Positions in regional executive boards, especially as heads of regional boards [marszałkowie], have been seen as increasingly attractive career choices for professional politicians. Therefore, modification of the traditional career model is expected, e.g. some inflow of national politicians into regional boards (from positions in the legislature to executive posts).Majchierkiewicz TatianaSciendoarticleregional politiciansregional self-governmentregional careersmultilevel systemcentral governmentlocal governmentPolitical scienceJCSENSKPolitics in Central Europe, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 283-307 (2020)
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description	This paper aims to investigate the multilevel careers of members of Polish regional executives from the first direct election to regional parliaments in 1998 until the end of 2014. Formation of self-government in regions is assumed to have started the process of formation of the multilevel system in Poland. Consequently, political career paths began to be diversified and to take place at more than one level. Among the factors with a critical impact on the specificity of Polish regional careers was the fact that regionalisation was preceded by local government reform (1990), and it was assumed that the local elite would become its natural recruitment base. On the one hand, the challenge to the development of the multilevel system has to be recognised. First, regional politics has undergone rather limited professionalisation (only positions in regional executives are full-time political jobs). Second, the legacy of communist centralisation resulted in lukewarm regional decentralisation in 1998. However, one can observe a certain increased prominence of self-government due to access to EU funds and increased financial autonomy. Positions in regional executive boards, especially as heads of regional boards [marszałkowie], have been seen as increasingly attractive career choices for professional politicians. Therefore, modification of the traditional career model is expected, e.g. some inflow of national politicians into regional boards (from positions in the legislature to executive posts).
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title	Polish Regional Elite Career Paths and the Impact of a Multilevel System
title_short	Polish Regional Elite Career Paths and the Impact of a Multilevel System
title_full	Polish Regional Elite Career Paths and the Impact of a Multilevel System
title_fullStr	Polish Regional Elite Career Paths and the Impact of a Multilevel System
title_full_unstemmed	Polish Regional Elite Career Paths and the Impact of a Multilevel System
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Polish Regional Elite Career Paths and the Impact of a Multilevel System

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