HOW METROPOLITAN CAN YOU GO? CITIZENSHIP IN POLISH CITY-REGIONS

This article deals with questions of metropolitan citizenship and political orientations in Polish city regions. The study is based on three case studies of the Gdansk, Wroclaw, and Poznan metropolitan areas. The description of their institutional arrangements and socioeconomic conditions is followed by an analysis of empirical data sets deriving from face-to-face surveys conducted with the inhabitants of core cities and suburban zones. The results are confronted with three main hypotheses regarding fragmentation and structure of the city-region, differences between citizens of core city and suburban areas, and individual-level variables (age, education, and so on). The main finding of the study is that city-regionalism understood as mobility, interest in supralocal public affairs, and autoidentification is relatively well developed in Polish regions, while public support for politico-administrative city-regionalism based on institutional solutions is less common.