The process of creating civil service in Poland in the perspective of the new institutionalism

• Main Author: Gadowska, Kaja
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Peter Lang 2018
• Subjects: civil service; personnel policy; political interest; politicization; Artide
• Online Access: https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/56993

The civil service is an important element of the public administration system and has a major impact on the state's manner of functioning. The civil service in Poland was created with the intention to ensure that the public administration performed its duties in a Professional and impartial manner, unhindered by political interests. The aim of this artide is to analyse the process of creating the civil service in Poland after 1989, and to show how the division between the political and administrative spheres was formed from the beginning of the transformation and under the governments of succeeding political groups, and the extent to which the actual relations between politics and public administration reflect the formal regulations contained in successive civil service acts. The article concentrates in particular on personnel policy with regard to senior civil service positions, because these appointments are connected with assuming control of decision-making processes and human resources policy in administrative offices. Various complementary qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the research. Multi-dimentional analysis of the data leads to the condusion that political parties in Poland strive to limit the autonomy of the government administration and to subordinate it to their interests. The legislation in the area of civil seryice has been largely subjugated to the political interest of the moment, and not to the long-term interest of the state. The use of the neo-institutional perspective allowed to identify the reasons behind the adoption of specific legal measures and to show their actual effects.