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Abstract
The study contains a general analysis of the premises which are likely to influence local and regional strategies of development in Poland in the foreseeable future. Due to the domination of centralistic policies over the last four decades, localism and regionalism have been neglected. As a result, factors dysfunctional to local development are still in the ascendancy and this does not bode well for the future. These negative premises date back to the older pre‐socialist tradition as well as to the new, post‐1945 one. Thus, a qualitative change is unlikely to occur in the near future. Poland does not yet have suitable strategies for this end. This is a task to be accomplished, and which will require a diversified pattern of endogenous development for municipalities and regions.