Koncepcja regionalnej polityki strukturalnej w Republice Federalnej Niemiec

The article contains a presentation of the main elements of the concept of regional structural policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. A point of departure for the analysis is a defnition of role and place of the regional structural policy within economic sciences. It allows to determine its role and scope, goals of particular entities and applied instruments. The regional structural policy holds a permanent place in the German economic thought as a part o f the economic policy pursued by the State. A specific character of the federal state implies special regulations concerning the problem of subjectiveness. Goals of the regional structural policy ensue from the pyramid of goals accepted within the framework of social market economy doctrine. The instruments applied have been subordinated to these goals. Both the theoretical experiments and the economic practice in Germany point a t the necessity of conducting a regional structural policy by the State irrespective of various discussions on the scope of state intervention in the economy.