National Tradition or Western Pattern? Concepts of New Administrative System for the Congress Kingdom of Poland (1814-1815) (Legal History Library)

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The monograph by Micha Gadek presents the process of rebuilding administrative structures on the eve of establishment of the Kingdom of Poland in 1815, in connection with the plans of tsar Alexander I to grant a liberal constitutional political system to the Kingdom. National Tradition or Western Pattern?: Concepts of the New Administrative System for the Congress Kingdom of Poland (1814–1815) Copyright Contents Foreword List of Figures Introduction 1 Concept of Administrative Thought 2 Public Administration 3 Construction of the Work 4 Methodology 5 Source Basis and Literature 1 Administration and Administrative Thought in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries 1 The Specificity of the Administrative System under the Reign of Stanislaw 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 Principle of Monarchical Sovereignty 2 Ministerial Accountability 3 Influence of the Sejm on the Executive Power 4 Namiestnik or a Collegial Government? The Problem of the Royal Deputy 5 Council 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 of Names Index of Places Index of Subjects