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| List of Tables and Figures | ||
| List of Acronyms | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Understanding a Functioning Democracy | ||
| 1 | Historic Discontinuities: Shaping Poland's Political Traditions | 1 |
| Beginnings: Dynastic Poland | 2 | |
| Democratic Breakthrough: The Republican Commonwealth | 6 | |
| Reform and Breakdown: The Destruction of the Commonwealth | 11 | |
| Resistance: The Struggle for Independence | 15 | |
| Political Traditions: Polonia Reconstituta | 18 | |
| 2 | The Communist Era: The System and Its Crises | 29 |
| The Soviet Model and Its Polish Variant | 30 | |
| The International Environment | 33 | |
| Socialist Socioeconomic Development | 37 | |
| Political Culture | 43 | |
| Political Structures and Ruling Coalitions | 48 | |
| Popular Mobilization Against Communist Rule | 52 | |
| Impasse | 62 | |
| 3 | Regime Change and Democratization | 63 |
| The Players of Transition | 64 | |
| Roundtable Procedures | 72 | |
| Roundtable Bargaining | 75 | |
| The June 1989 Elections | 81 | |
| After the June Elections: The End of the Communist Party? | 85 | |
| Implications of the Polish Transition | 92 | |
| 4 | The Political Players: Elites, Parties, and Other Actors in the Third Republic | 95 |
| Winners and Losers in the New Democratic Games, 1989-2001 | 96 | |
| Political Elites | 104 | |
| Parties and the Party System | 116 | |
| Other Players on the Political Scene | 142 | |
| 5 | The Played Upon: Society | 151 |
| Cleavages | 152 | |
| Electoral Behavior | 164 | |
| Mass Political Attitudes | 170 | |
| Popular Protests | 178 | |
| Economic Interests versus Religion and the Past | 181 | |
| 6 | Political and Economic Arenas: The Institutions of the Third Republic | 185 |
| Political Structures | 186 | |
| Economic Structures | 211 | |
| 7 | Policy Challenges Shaping Poland's Future | 219 |
| European or Polish? The European Union, NATO, and Neighbors | 220 | |
| Addressing Economic Inequalities: Globalization or Paternalism? | 232 | |
| Forging Effective and Transparent Institutions | 241 | |
| A Secular State for a Catholic Nation: Social, Cultural, and Ethnic Policies | 250 | |
| Notes | 255 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 277 | |
| Index | 279 |
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Cuyler Nez
reviewed Democracy In Poland on May 07, 2009
Democracy In Poland
It's much better and more scholarly then the first reviewer suggests !
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