Kierunki modernizacji administracji samorządowej w Polsce i w Niemczech – przykład miast na prawach powiatu

This article is an attempt of identification methods to increase local administration potential exemplified in Poland’s and German’s district city. The article aims to present differences in these transformations characteristics and to describe theirs specifics. The starting point for disputation is reformation’s characteristic referring to new public management and also conceptual basics for local administration modernization in both countries. In this article survey was used which took place among 31 German district cities entitled „Municipal administration modernization in Germany”.