chapters
legacy
social skill as a tool for implementing long-term change - legacy
long-term changes in institutions, so they become better
what institutions?
fan culture
amateur sport
NGOs in Gdansk
municipal organizations in Gdansk
"municipality" - City Council
municipal transport
Centre for City Management
"Team for City Management"
volunteering in Gdansk
flatter rather than hierarchical
Weber - objections to bureaucracy
"the longer the chain of command the more risk that details get lost, each level tends to gloss over when they pass information to their superiors" (fro the interview)
more effective and efficient, this way they can serve social change
institutions that are closer to citizens - more democratic
"they are where they are needed, and not where they have their offices"
they are more available - shorter access path
they know the needs of recipients
citizens are aware of their existance and of their goals
background / context
specifics of functioning of cities in Poland - independence from central politics after the decentralizing reform in 1998, in all big Polish cities there strong, nonpartisan local authorities, same mayors for many years, tight networks
historical - transition after '89, "wild capitalism", neoliberalism, Balcerowicz's reforms - "shock therapy"; modernization; joining the UE in 2004 -> access to EU funding, accelaration of modernization; after the decision on EURO to be held in Poland -> projects finalized super-fast -> infrastructure, transport, organizational
fast pace of realizing projects - how and why?
common goal - "Polish mobilization", showing off to strangers, "temporary social capital" (Geremek)
simplification of procedures - Szymon explained it the first interview, but it kept coming up in the later interviews as well; how? -> e.g. faster reactions to correspondence, more dealings over the phone, more informality
methodology
formation of network
what's the substance of relationships that create networks, how are they constructed - strategies for building relationships as social skill
social skill as a tool for building network
network as a place where social capital resides
social skill
one of the resources (Agre) - necessary for building social capital; hasn't yet been studied -> analysis based on interviews and ethnography
tools used by social entrepreneurs
people who in certain circumstances are capable of changing institutions - Powell, Zucker, Fligstein, McAdam
how? what is it?
people implementing actual social change - lit on social entrepreneurship