The Regulatory Function of Public Administration : A Study of the Science of Administrative Law and the Science of Administration (Rafał Stasikowski, Funkcja Regulacyjna Administracji Publicznej: Studium Z Zakresu Nauki Prawa Administracyjnego Oraz Nauki Administracji)

The last twenty years can be described as a period of development of the so-called information society, i.e. a type of society characterized by a new shape of social and economic relationships. The information society has emerged as a result of ongoing technological progress accompanied by a global crisis of the welfare state theory. The opportunities accompanying technical progress, globalization and the growing costs of the direct provision of public services, covered by states with increasing effort only, caused the beginning of the demonopolization and privatization of infrastructure sectors (state monopoly domain) in Europe at the end of the 1980ties