LOCAL INSTITUTIONS AS A DETERMINANT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND - A CASE STUDY OF GREATER POLAND VOIVODESHIP

The main aim of the study was to verify relations between the level of socioeconomic development and the quality of local government institutions. The spatial range of the study comprised Greater Poland as an administrative region, i.e. Greater Poland Voivodeship. Rural and rural-urban communes were the subjects of the study. The research spanned the period of 2016. The empirical research material was acquired from a questionnaire survey (2011) and Local Data Bank. The research procedure consisted of the following steps: 1. measurement of the socioeconomic development and quality of institutions; 2. determination of relations between the level of development and quality of institutions. Development was measured by means of the synthetic trait. The relation was investigated by means of analysis of variance (ANOVA). The research results showed that institutions were the determinant strengthening development (the high quality of institutions coincided with high socioeconomic development). The quality of institutions was significantly diversified according to the level of development.