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The Mechanism of Horizontal Equalization of Local Government Finance in the Light of Polish Constitutional Court Jurisdiction

The description of the corrective-compensatory mechanism in the Polish system of financing local government units and the analysis of the Constitutional Court Jurisdiction in this regard. The general rules for financing local government units at the level of fundamental laws in decentralized countries as well as doctrinal and axiological bases for the compensatory mechanism with regard to 1997 Constitution and Polish Constitutional Court Jurisdiction.

Keywords: horizontal equalization mechanism, corrective-compensatory payments, revenue of local government units, execution of judgments of the Constitutional Court, legislation, Polish Constitutional Court, Polish Constitution.

Bartłomiej Ślemp – A graduate of the Center for American Law Studies run by Emory University - School of Law, Georgia State University - College of Law. Currently a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences in the discipline of legal science.