Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress Book

	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