http://hdl.handle.net/11089/31152 2026-04-03T19:54:26Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38498 The village fund as a support tool in spatial planning activities: a case study of Poland Feltynowski, Marcin With respect to space, local authorities may deploy diverse instruments designed to promote the engagement of local communities in the spatial planning and decision-making process. The Village (Polish: Sołecki) Fund, established for rural and urban-rural communes, is one of the ways for achieving this goal. Resources from the Village Fund may be used for, e.g. spatial planning, which is one of a commune’s own tasks. The activities related to the Village Fund have triggered studies focused on the units which run such funds and, on the amounts, earmarked for goals pertaining to spatial planning. On top of that, the spatial distribution of communes delivering such tasks has also been assessed. The analyses covered statistics as well as budget queries in communes which allocated funds for activities connected with spatial planning. 2019-12-31T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38500 Ugo BARDI, The Seneca Effect. Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid, Springer 2017, XII, 203 pages Lakócai, Csaba; Zsibók, Zsuzsanna 2019-12-31T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38499 Christie Johnson Coffin, Jenny Young, Making Places for People: 12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask, Routledge, New York/London 2017, 226 pages Hospers, Gert-Jan 2019-12-31T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38496 Anti-liberal, anti-establishment or constituency-driven? Spatial econometric analysis of polish parliamentary election results in 2015 Lasoń, Aleksandra; Torój, Andrzej We investigated the spatial variation patterns of voting results in Polish parliamentary election in 2015 across 380 regions. That election was a milestone event in Polish politics that substantially affected Poland’s internal and foreign policy directions and promoted two emerging political parties as runners-up against the well-established ones. While socio-economic, cultural and geographical factors such as economic activity, historical legacies (post-Russian East vs post-German West) and economic dichotomies (cities vs the countryside) explain most variations for most parties, they do not appeared to fit as determinants of the new parties’ support, especially of right-wing populists. Demographic target groups of individual parties appear to be relatively unresponsive to their pre-election offerings. The spatial specification of econometric models considerably improves their statistical properties. We also examined mixed-W models to account for the unobservable spatial effects stemming from the construction of constituencies. Their distinctive sets of candidates added significantly to the explanation of the spatial variation in voting. 2019-12-31T00:00:00Z