Kwestia służby cywilnej w administracji samorządowej – porażki i zaniechania okresu III RP

The subject of the analysis is the issue of the legitimacy of introducing the civil service model in Polish local government administration. Local self-government authorities have been functioning in Poland since the Second Polish Republic (baseding in this respect on various regulations of the partitioning states and France from the period of the Duchy of Warsaw and the validity of the Napoleonic Code). In the too “pink” and overly optimistic perception of the model of Polish local government, attention should be paid to the areas of omissions and visible failures. For such a failure in the light of the functioning of the territorial self-governments of the Second Polish Republic was the failure to establish voivodeship selfgovernments (apart from two units from the former Prussian and German partitions) and the failure to extend the state civil service (according to the model from February 1922) from state administration to self-government administration. Especially after 1994 (the second self-government election), we had to deal with a kind of appropriation of self-government administration structures by strengthening political parties and local coterie centered around village heads or mayors.