The analysis aims to present and assess the impact of historical factors on the differences in socio-economic development of Poland at the local level and to compare them to the results of other research that show the effects of similar analyses carried out for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The study is based on the analysis of spatial diversification of the socio-economic development level classes and indicators of the electoral support structure of residents by means of spatial regression methods. The spatial scope of the work includes the local level units (LAU2) and furthermore takes into account the division of the present-day territory of Poland by the relict borders of partitions (1772, 1793, 1795), established at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the course of Poland’s borders between the world wars (1918-1939) conclusively determined in 1922.
Does history matter? Development differences in Poland is a chapter prepared by the team composed of: Paweł Churski, Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska, Tomasz Herodowicz and Robert Perdał, published in the monograph: Dilemmas of Regional and Local Development edited by Jerzy Bański and published in the international publishing house Routledge.
In 2020, the publication of the monograph European Regional Development and Socio-Economic Changes—contemporary perspectives is planned, which will be a summary of the FORSED project. The book will be published as part of the SPRINGER Economic Geography Series.
https://www.routledge.com/Dilemmas-of-Regional-and-Local-Development/Banski/p/book/9781138359154