This is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected, most recent election in 2007. It provides a detailed electoral perspective on the trajectory of political development in the context …
This book offers a detailed electoral perspective on Poland's political development since 1991, charting the problematic development of electoral processes and political parties in the context of post-authoritarian change. It constitutes a comparative benchmark for analysis of d…
Since 2015, Poland's populist Law and Justice Party (PiS) has been dismantling the major checks and balances of the Polish state and subordinating the courts, the civil service, and the media to the will of the executive. Political rights have been radically restricted, and the …
Poland's anti-constitutional breakdown poses three questions that this text sets out to answer: What, exactly, has happened since 2015? Why did it happen? And what are the prospects for a return to liberal democracy?