| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Approaches to Democratization -- Historic Discontinuities: Dynasties, Republics, Partitions -- The Functioning of the Communist Regime -- Crises of the Communist System -- Coalition Formation and Crisis Resolution -- Democratic Structures of the Third Republic -- Socioeconomic Development, Foreign Policy, and the International Political Economy |
| Summary |
A comprehensive analysis of politics in a young European democracy, this book describes the principal features of Poland's democratic system-the political institutions, parties, elections, and leaders that have shaped the transition from communism. Raymond Taras examines the complex Walesa phenomenon; the comeback of the communists; and the uneasy |
| Notes |
Raymond Taras has taught political science at universities in England, Canada, and the United States and has served as a national fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His publications include Ideology in a Socialist State: Poland 1956-83, The Road to Disillusion: From Critical Marxism to Postcommunism in Eastern Europe, and Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States |
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Title details screen |
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Democracy -- Poland -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Democracy
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Poland -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001713
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Poland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104014
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Poland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429034466 |
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0429034466 |
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9780429719554 |
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0429719558 |
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9780429739569 |
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0429739567 |
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9780429699542 |
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0429699549 |
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