Weakening of Democratic Standards in Poland 2005-2007
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Data wydania
2008
Autorzy
Tytuł czasopisma
ISSN
1733-2680
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Wydawca
Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM
Abstrakt
"The peaceful political change of 1989 and early 1990s opened a new chapter in the
political history of Central and Eastern Europe. For the two following decades, the
process of introducing and implementing democratic standards has been steady
and firm. Stages of this process: economic liberalisation, transition to democratic
institutions and their consolidation, as mentioned by J. Rupnik, must be assumed
as a cumulative process, in the sense that once a given stage is achieved there is no
turning back. Undoubtedly, all Central and East European countries have passed
through all stages of the transition process. Disturbances appeared suddenly, after
two decades of a relatively steady march towards western standards of democracy.
In Poland and Slovakia, populist parties were elected. In Bulgaria, advancing
populists were stopped by an unlikely coalition of the former king Simeon and
ex-communists. In Hungary, violent demonstrations followed a political scandal
that revealed how the government had lied to the public. In the Czech Republic,
political impasse led to seven months without government. Definitely, Poland cannot
be seen as an exception. It should be rather considered as the country focusing
general political frustration of the last stage of democratic transition in Central and
East European countries. Frustration together with populism poses an imminent
threat to the fundamental rules of democracy. To avoid generalisation, it is necessary
to specify which aspects of democracy and at which stages were threatened by
populist movements."(...)
Opis
Tematy
Politologia, Stosunki międzynarodowe, Prawo
Słowa kluczowe
Źródło
Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe 2008, nr 2, s. 183-195.