The New Politics Of Poland

Author : Jaroslaw Kuisz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526155870
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Politics of Poland written by Jaroslaw Kuisz and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many western commentators, the electoral success of Poland's populist right-wing party Law and Justice (PiS) in 2015 came as a surprise. Even more shocking, however, was what happened afterwards. Without any self-restraint, Jaroslaw Kaczynski's party started taking over all the state institutions and launched a controversial 'reform' of the judiciary. How was this political turn possible after more than twenty-five years of practically uninterrupted democratic development? Has Poland permanently cut itself off from the pro-European path taken in 1989, or is the PiS government just a passing episode in the country's recent democratic history? This book offers a multi-layered analysis of how and why Poland has changed over the past thirty years and how this is relevant for its recent political crisis.

Author : Jo Harper
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9637326553
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poland's Memory Wars written by Jo Harper and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both informed and non-specialist readers. The essays consider why and how PiS, Law and Justice, the party of Jarosław Kaczynski, returned to power, and the why and how of its policies while in power. They help to make sense of how “history” plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The descriptions of PiS in Western media tend to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain dormant for some time. The book addresses the underlying question whether PiS was simply successful in understanding its electorate, and just helped Poland to revert to its normal state. This new Normal seems quite similar to the old one: insular, conservative, xenophobic, and statist. The book looks at the current struggle between one ‘Poland’ and another; between a Western-looking Poland and an inward-looking Poland, the former more interested in opening to the world, competing in open markets, and working within the EU, and the latter more concerned with holding onto tradition. The question of illiberalism has gone from an ‘Eastern’ problem (Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) to a global one (Brexit and the U.S. elections). This makes the very specific analysis of Poland’s illiberalism applicable on a broader scale.

Author : Jaroslaw Kuisz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526155869
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The new politics of Poland written by Jaroslaw Kuisz and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of populist far-right party Law and Justice in 2015 marked a shocking break in Polish politics. A period of stability was brutally interrupted as Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his allies took over public media and launched a controversial ‘reform’ of the judiciary. How was this illiberal turn possible after years of democratic development? Jaroslaw Kuisz, one of Poland’s leading liberal thinkers, digs deep into Polish history to propose an original analysis of the crisis. He reveals how centuries of statelessness have left Poles with a ‘post-traumatic’ attitude to sovereignty, making them wary of powerful foreign blocks, be it the EU, the Soviet Union or present-day Russia. This is a phenomenon populists have proved adept at exploiting. Providing a brilliant account of Europe’s largest illiberal democracy, The new politics of Poland shines a light on the broader situation in East and Central Europe, offering valuable lessons for other countries experiencing the rise of populist right-wing movements.

Author : Jo Harper
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633863961
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Man in Warszawa written by Jo Harper and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a Brit who has lived in Poland for more than twenty years, this book challenges some accepted thinking in the West about Poland and about the rise of Law and Justice (PiS) as the ruling party in 2015. It is a remarkable account of the Polish post-1989 transition and contemporary politics, combining personal views and experience with careful fact and material collections. The result is a vivid description of the events and scrupulous explanations of the political processes, and all this with an interesting twist – a perspective of a foreigner and insider at the same time. Settled in the position of participant observer, Jo Harper combines the methods of macro and micro analysis with CDA, critical discourse analysis. He presents and interprets the constituent elements and issues of contemporary Poland: the main political forces, the Church, the media, issues of gender, the Russian connection, the much-disputed judicial reform and many others. A special feature of the book is the detailed examination of the coverage of the Poland’s latest two elections, one in 2019 (parliamentary) and the other in 2020 (presidential) in the British media, an insightful and witty specimen of comparative cultural and political analysis.

Author : Kathleen Thelen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107053161
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity written by Kathleen Thelen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas - industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. While confirming a broad, shared liberalizing trend, it finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the "Golden Era" of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it.

Author : Maria Mälksoo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135230803
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Becoming European written by Maria Mälksoo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polish and Baltic post-Cold War politics of becoming European. Approaching the study of Europe’s eastern enlargement through a post-colonial critique, author Maria Mälksoo makes a convincing case for a rethinking of European identity. Drawing on the theorist Edward Said, she contends that studies of the European Union are marked by a prevailing Orientalism, rarely asking who has traditionally been able to define European identity, and whether this identity should be presented as an historical process rather than a static category. The central argument of this book is that the historical experience of being framed as simultaneously in Europe - and yet not quite in Europe – informs the current self-understandings and security imaginaries of Poland and the Baltic States. Exploring this existential condition of ‘liminal Europeaness’ among foreign and security policy-making elites, the book considers its effects on key security policy issues, including relations with Western Europe, Russia and the United States. Supported by solid empirical analyses, this book provides an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the post-Cold War predicament of Poland and the Baltic States. It will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, European Studies, Social and Political Theory, and Anthropology.

Author : Bogdan Szajkowski
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Next to God--Poland written by Bogdan Szajkowski and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1983 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Millard
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of the New Poland written by Frances Millard and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland is significant not only because events there triggered the downfall of Communism throughout the region, but also because of the bold economic experiments of the new Polish leadership.

Author : Aleksandra Lis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429515111
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate and Energy Politics in Poland written by Aleksandra Lis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas presents a new, object-oriented perspective on the challenge faced by Poland, the largest post-socialist EU member state from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to produce knowledge about its energy system in the context of climate change. Drawing on data from five different research projects and two hundred interviews, Lis reflects on how EU accession forced Poland to mobilize their resources and produce expertise on carbon dioxide and shale gas, in order to actively participate in the debates around EU climate change ambitions and goals. A significant lack of capacity and expert institutions made it difficult for Poland to quickly assess the impacts of EU legislation or to propose new solutions for itself, and it is precisely this struggle for knowledge production that will be examined during the course of the book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy and resource politics, climate change, EU environmental policy and CEE studies more broadly.

Author : Charles O. Cameron
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330209233
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Poland written by Charles O. Cameron and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Poland A New Great Power of Democracy is looming up on the war-scarred frontiers of the three fallen empires of Prussia, Russia and Austria. The new Great Power is Poland - a new government but an old nation, a kingdom-republic older in history than Prussia or Russia or Austria. Her old independent government was slowly crushed to death about 125 years ago by the conspiracies of the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs. But though her government was crushed, though her elected kings were dethroned and her parliaments silenced, though heroic leaders were martyred or exiled, her people have never surrendered their individuality to the conquerors. Under the oppression of Czars and Kaisers the Poles have clung to their own language, their traditions of democracy, and to their undying hope that the day of deliverance would come. The day of deliverance has now come indeed, when the freemen of Poland will take their place among the republics of the world. The time came when the whole world was weary of Czars and Kaisers, just as Poland had long been weary of them. The time came when the world was prepared for the ideals of democracy for which ancient Poland stood, which her heroes died to maintain. And when the war finally brought deliverance to the captive nation, the long-oppressed people were found prepared and ready to assume the burden of self-government. They have been trained in a school of liberty through a thousand years of glory, and they have kept the faith of democracy through two centuries of oppression. In one respect there is no story like this story, no history like the history of Poland. Everything in her past has a significance for the present and the future. Everything developing in the present readjustment in Europe is better understood by a study of Poland's past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.