Libertarian Paternalism and Self-Government Housing Policy in Poland

Justyna Brzezicka

Department of Real Estate Management and Regional Development, Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Radosław Wiśniewski

Department of Real Estate Management and Regional Development, Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Baryła

Department of Spatial and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn


Resumen

The article pertains to the issue of libertarian paternalism in relation to public housing policy in Poland. Libertarian paternalism is an idea developing on behavioral grounds, the main task of which is ensuring paternalistic protection and social care by the government and local self-government administrative organs, while at the same time maintaining the society's freedom of choice and increasing social-economic well-being. In the article, the issue of libertarian paternalism is described, a set of instruments of the described concept is implemented for purposes of working out solutions to problems connected with the housing policy of territorial self-government units in Poland (communes), and the proposed solutions validated in a post-socialist country. The work is of a conceptual-remedial character. Within it, selected tools in the scope of behaviorally informed interventions, serving to implement solutions that increase the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of operations of public organizations under conditions of dynamic decentralizing changes, have been indicated. The most important conclusions arising from the deliberations carried out make it possible to look at housing policy in Poland through a prism of a modern market economy.


Palabras clave:

libertarian paternalism, behavioral informed interventions, housing policy, Poland


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Brzezicka, J., Wiśniewski, R., & Napiórkowska-Baryła, A. (2016). Libertarian Paternalism and Self-Government Housing Policy in Poland. Olsztyn Economic Journal, 11(2), 103–118. https://doi.org/10.31648/oej.2911

Justyna Brzezicka 
Department of Real Estate Management and Regional Development, Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Radosław Wiśniewski 
Department of Real Estate Management and Regional Development, Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Baryła 
Department of Spatial and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn



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