Stability of fulfilling the tasks of the municipalities of the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Province

Abstract

The article summarises the results of the research on the stability of the municipalities of the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Province in fulfilling the tasks within the basic areas of their functioning compared with other municipalities in Poland. The research was conducted in the years 2015-2016 among 61 municipalities of the province. The results have been compared with the results of the research on 1,220 municipalities in the country. The analysis is based on the values of the stabi- lity index. The average value of the index in Poland amounted to 0.5721, and in the Warmińsko- -Mazurskie Province to 0.5890. The municipalities of the province that were characterised with the highest average value of the stability index were the urban and rural municipali-ties. The institutional performance, as well as stability at the average level was displayed by 39.34 percent of the surveyed municipalities of the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Province.