| Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Understanding a Functioning Democracy; 1 Historic Discontinuities: Shaping Poland's Political Traditions; Beginnings: Dynastic Poland; Democratic Breakthrough: The Republican Commonwealth; Reform and Breakdown: The Destruction of the Commonwealth; Resistance: The Struggle for Independence; Political Traditions: Polonia Reconstituta; 2 The Communist Era: The System and Its Crises; The Soviet Model and Its Polish Variant; The International Environment |
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Socialist Socioeconomic DevelopmentPolitical Culture; Political Structures and Ruling Coalitions; Popular Mobilization Against Communist Rule; Impasse; 3 Regime Change and Democratization; The Players of Transition; Roundtable Procedures; Roundtable Bargaining; The June 1989 Elections; After the June Elections: The End of the Communist Party?; Implications of the Polish Transition; 4 The Political Players: Elites, Parties, and Other Actors in the Third Republic; Winners and Losers in the New Democratic Games, 1989-2001; Political Elites; Parties and the Party System |
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Other Players on the Political Scene5 The Played Upon: Society; Cleavages; Electoral Behavior; Mass Political Attitudes; Popular Protests; Economic Interests versus Religion and the Past; 6 Political and Economic Arenas: The Institutions of the Third Republic; Political Structures; Economic Structures; 7 Policy Challenges Shaping Poland's Future; European or Polish? The European Union, NATO, and Neighbors; Addressing Economic Inequalities: Globalization or Paternalism?; Forging Effective and Transparent Institutions; A Secular State for a Catholic Nation: Social, Cultural, and Ethnic Policies |
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NotesSelected Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Democracy-Poland
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Poland-Politics and government-1989-
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Taras, Raymond
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| ISBN |
9780429980671 |
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0429980671 |
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