The main problem addressed in the paper is the relation between politics and administration. The authors try to answer if independent administration exists at the sub-national level in Poland. In a more detailed manner, the question is whether an acceptance of independent administration has been fostered by the dispersion of political power and the experience of participation in important decision-making processes. The data used in the article come from a survey of councillors and in-depth interviews with councillors and clerks. The analysis proved that the councillors’ opinions as to the independence of administration are influenced by their participation in the ruling majority. Opposition members support stricter, more stringent legislative oversight. Majority members, on the contrary, accept greater independence of administration. The result of the study leads also to a conclusion about the importance of monopolization and the influence on administration by the executive and the majority councillors. Administration becomes perceived as a functional part of the majority. A more fundamental conclusion is when there is no programmatic competition between political groupings of councillors, there are no conditions for establishing an administration independent of politics. This outcome completes the relationship noted by Miller and Whitford with the programmatic dimension of political competition.

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地方治理中的政治与行政关系：探索波兰缺乏独立行政

本文讨论的主要问题是政治与行政的关系。作者试图回答波兰的地方各级是否存在独立行政机构。更具体地说，问题是政治权力的分散和参与重要决策过程的经验是否促进了对独立行政的接受。文章中使用的数据来自对议员的调查以及对议员和职员的深入访谈。分析证明，议员对行政独立性的看法受到其参与执政多数的影响。反对党成员支持更严格、更严格的立法监督。相反，大多数成员接受更大的行政独立性。研究结果还得出了关于垄断的重要性以及行政机关和多数议员对行政管理的影响的结论。行政管理被视为大多数人的职能部分。一个更基本的结论是，当议员政治团体之间不存在纲领性竞争时，就没有条件建立一个独立于政治的政府。这一结果完善了米勒和惠特福德所指出的政治竞争的纲领性维度的关系。