Public sphere in local communities : party, civic, or maybe network?

Bibliogr. s. 114-115

The subject of the below deliberations in this text article is the quality and functioning conditions of public sphere in localities, and its image in local communities. The author ponders the question of responsibility identification for issues recognized as public, for almost three decades of the Republic of Poland self-governance. While using own observations and researches of others, the author attempts to formulate an answer to the question if there is an interrelation between a public discourse and political divisions, the scope of party involvement of public sphere, as well as citizens' influence on current decisions and settlings in the area of public sphere via institutions or citizens' budget. While identifying serious deficits in local public sphere, the author poses an unsolved question about a possibility of fixing public sphere deficits with the help of instruments used by the Internet community.