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Dedication | xi | |
Preface | xiii | |
1 | The Polish Revolution | 1 |
1.1 | Contributors | 10 |
2 | Points of Departure | 17 |
2.1 | Introduction | 17 |
2.2 | The Origin of the Polish Crisis | 22 |
2.3 | Martial Law and Its Aftermath | 27 |
2.4 | Years of Indecision, 1985-88 | 34 |
2.5 | Squaring the Round Table | 38 |
2.6 | The First Breakthrough Year | 42 |
3 | Consolidation and Legitimization | 59 |
3.1 | The Theoretical Problem | 59 |
3.2 | A Theoretical Model | 61 |
3.3 | Discussion | 63 |
3.4 | Conclusion | 73 |
4 | The ConstitutionaL Debate | 77 |
5 | Dead Ends and New Beginnings | 89 |
5.1 | The New Beginning and the Original Sin: The Roundtable Accord and the 1989 Election | 92 |
5.2 | Electoral Law: The Pain of Trials and Errors | 103 |
5.3 | Dead Ends: The Vicissitudes of Institutional Designs | 109 |
5.4 | Conclusions: A Procedural Republic, After All? | 115 |
6 | Prospects for Constitutional Democracy | 125 |
6.1 | Introduction | 125 |
6.2 | History and Culture | 126 |
6.3 | Civil Society | 127 |
6.4 | The Economy | 130 |
6.5 | Corruption | 132 |
6.6 | Elections | 133 |
6.7 | Constitutional Courts and Judicial Review | 136 |
6.8 | The Reality and Enforcement of Rights | 139 |
6.9 | Religious Liberty: Church and State | 141 |
6.10 | Regional Environment | 144 |
6.11 | Aspirations to Join European Institutions | 145 |
6.12 | Conclusion | 148 |
7 | The Problem of Property Restitution | 159 |
7.1 | Two Revolutions | 161 |
7.2 | Property Management by the Nazis | 163 |
7.3 | Under the Communist Regime | 163 |
7.4 | Aborted Restitution | 165 |
7.5 | Confiscations and Restorations | 167 |
7.6 | Annus Mirabilis: 1989 | 168 |
7.7 | Contemporary Politics | 170 |
7.8 | Political Problems | 171 |
7.9 | A Bureaucratic Nightmare | 173 |
7.10 | Creeping Restitution | 175 |
7.11 | Legal Issues | 176 |
7.12 | The Basic Proposal | 177 |
7.13 | What of Communist Law? | 179 |
7.14 | Why Only Real Property? | 180 |
7.15 | Valuation | 181 |
7.16 | Who Should be Eligible to Claim? | 181 |
7.17 | Administrative Problems | 183 |
7.18 | Conclusion | 184 |
8 | The New Geopolitical Situation | 195 |
9 | The Dead Hand of the Past | 209 |
10 | Poland's Fragebogen | 223 |
10.1 | Poland Between the Wars (1918-1939) | 224 |
10.2 | The War and Its Aftermath (1939-1947) | 227 |
10.3 | "People's" Poland (1948-1989) | 232 |
10.4 | Memory as the Party Line | 235 |
10.5 | The Scholarship of Half-Truths | 239 |
10.6 | The Old and the Young | 247 |
10.7 | Conclusion | 253 |
11 | Polish Literature in Transition | 269 |
About The Authors | 287 |
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