Brill has published a new book on
the constitutional Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Poland in 1814-1815.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michał Gałędek, Ph.D. (2010),
Professor of University of Gdańsk, Head of the Department of Legal History,
Faculty of Law and Administration. In his research he focuses on the Polish
administration, judiciary, codification, constitutionalism, and political
thought at the beginning of 19th century and in the interwar period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1 Concept of Administrative
Thought
2 Public Administration
3 Construction of the Work
4 Methodology
5 Source Basis of and
Literature
1 Administration and
Administrative Thought in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries 26
1 The Specificity of the
Administrative System under the Reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski
2 Determinants of
Administrative Development in Early 19th-century Europe
3 Controversies Around the
Administrative System of the Duchy of Warsaw
4 Administrative Concepts in
the Lithuanian Constitutional Drafts of 1811 and 1812
2 The Course of Works on the
Preparation of Administrative System Reforms
1 Summer Breakthrough of 1814:
establishment of the Civil Reform Committee and the Drafting of Constitutional
Principles for the Kingdom of Poland
2 The Course of Works in the
Civil Reform Committee (1814–1815)
3 Works on the Provisional
Organization of Central Administration in 1815
4 New Plan of Works on
Administration for the Second Half of 1815
5 Works on the Constitution and
on Organic Statutes
3 The Central Government
1 The Principle of Monarchical
Sovereignty and the Polish Political Situation in the Years 1814 to 1815
2 The Principle of Monarchical
Sovereignty in the Course of Works on the Constitution
3 Ministerial Accountability in
the Course of Works on the Constitution
4 Influence of the Seym ( sejm)
on the Executive Power
5 Namiestnik or a Collegial
Government? The Problem of the Royal Deputy
6Council of State
4 Ministries
1 Collegiality and One-man
Management
2 Organization of Ministries
3 Ministry of Education
4 Ministry of War
5 Ministry of Justice
5 Territorial Administration
1 Points of Reference and
Inspirations
2 Collegiality
3 Scope of Operations
4 Influence of Voivodeship
Councils on the Administration
5 District Administration
6 Municipal Administration
7 Rural Administration
6 Attitude Towards Bureaucrats
1 Foundations of the Republican
Traditionalist Concept
2 The Moderate Concept of
Maintaining Bureaucracy
Conclusions
1 Summary of the Course of
Works on the Administrative System
2 “Enlightened Liberalism” and
the Issue of the Unity of Political and Administrative Thought
3 A Summary Evaluation of the
Concepts of Administrative System Reforms
Sources
1 Archival Sources
(Manuscripts)
2 Printed Sources
Literature
Index
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