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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810998103321

Autore

Gałędek Michał <1978->

Titolo

National tradition or Western pattern? : concepts of new administrative system for the Congress Kingdom of Poland (1813-1815) / / by Michał Gałędek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill ; Nijhoff, , 2021

ISBN

90-04-44112-3

9789004441125

9789004432680

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Legal history library ; ; Volume 44

Disciplina

342.4380609034

Soggetti

Administrative law - Poland - History

Federal government - Poland - History

Poland Politics and government History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Administration and administrative thought in the late 18th and early 19th centuries -- The course of works on the preparation of administrative system reform -- The central government -- Ministries -- Territorial administration -- Attitude towards bureaucrats.

Sommario/riassunto

"In the history of the development of Polish law and administration, the short period of the constitutional Duchy of Warsaw, and next of the Kingdom of Poland, was a special time. This is because it was the only moment in the 19th century when the Polish elites gained an opportunity to concentrate their efforts on the organization of the modern state machinery. This book presents the process of restructuring the administrative structures following the collapse of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw and before the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland in 1815. The author focuses on the approach of the Polish elites to the nascent modern state, increasing importance of administration within it and to the young Polish bureaucrats"--