The Impact of Legal Self-Reliance of Municipalities on the Decentralisation of Public Authority in Poland

Abstract

The literature emphasizes that decentralization signifies self-reliance. Several conditions must be fulfilled to speak of decentralization. They include: equipping of bodies with their own competencies, absence of hierarchic subordination, financial self-reliance (a decentralized body has own sources of income and independently decides how to spend its financial resources). Self-reliance in disposal of property and organizational (statutory) self-reliance are also noteworthy.