General Principles and Challenges of Public Administration Organization in Poland

This chapter aims to present the functions of public administration in Poland (central and local governments). It examines the Polish public administration system, its constitutional framework, the principles of the Constitution, and the broader constitutional order that applies to public administration. The chapter analyses the conceptual position of the executive branch within the system of governmental branches in light of the constitutional order, demonstrating how public administration is fundamentally influenced by the structure of supreme constitutional organs and their interrelationships. The chapter addresses the system of relations between public administration and other state bodies (e.g. Parliament, the President of the Republic, and the Public Prosecutor’s Office). Finally, it discusses current challenges in public administration.

KEYWORDS public administration in Poland, Polish constitutional order, Polish local government, conceptual position of the executive in the system in Poland, the functioning of the Polish public administration