... this gap, we use focus group interviews to supplement our data from nationally representative surveys in Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Our fieldwork makes three contributions. First, the decisions people in both countries make about whether to engage in civic activism are shaped more...

...Maciej Tymiński; Dariusz Standerski In the 1960s and 1970s, Soviet bloc countries launched a number of automotive projects in cooperation with Western companies. One such initiative was the Small-Engine Car Factory (FSM) in Bielsko and Tychy, Poland. This article explores the involvement...

... primarily on the movement’s intellectuals and national leadership, and has thereby marginalized the industrial workplace, which was the very place where Solidarity arose and the center of its activities. Rather than providing a solution to Poland’s economic predicament, Solidarity’s actions at the factory...

...Marcin Ślarzyński Recent scholarship points to a growing political prominence of various non-liberal civil society organizations in many countries around the world. In Poland, this phenomenon is simultaneous with the emergence of political division in civil society driven by the policies...

...Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak This article revisits the category of self-criticism, which, as a speech act, plays a special role in the discourse of the intelligentsia, emerging from the peripheral status of Poland and from the imperative to catch up with the West. In contemporary Poland, self...

...Filip Ilkowski The aim of this article is to show with the example of contemporary Poland the ideological function of anti-communism. It explains how “communism” has been constructed and utilized mainly in order to legitimize the political/economic power in the decades of Transition after 1989...

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...Kriszta Kovács; Kim Lane Scheppele When the European Union was founded, it was assumed that all Member States admitted as consolidated democracies would maintain their constitutional commitments. In recent years, Hungary and Poland have challenged this premise as elected autocratic governments...

...Rafał Lisiakiewicz This article examines the problem of contemporary bilateral relations between Poland and Russia. Its thesis largely attributes the rivalry of these two states in Eastern Europe to conceptions relating to the balancing and bandwagoning of power. This rivalry can be put down...

...Grzegorz W. Kolodko Of the 11 post-socialist states that have already become European Union members only five have joined the common currency Eurozone. The other six, including Poland, the region’s largest economy, have, pursuant to accession treaties, the right and obligation to adopt euro...

...Simona Guerra The 2004–07 EU enlargement towards the post-communist region showed that the long waiting for EU membership could impact on levels of public support for the EU. This article examines citizens’ trust towards national and international institutions after joining the EU in Poland...

...Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski The paper explores the recent political participation in Poland focusing on the KOD movement. Given that very limited data is available on the impact of citizen participation in political process in Poland, the paper attempts a preliminary assessment of the participation...

...Urszula Jakubowska; Krzysztof Kaniasty The present study investigates how Poles perceive the post-communist political system of contemporary Poland. A nationwide random sample of 400 adults was selected, using a probability quota sampling strategy, and interviewed face-to-face in respondents’ homes...

... of Culture and Science, Pl. Defilad 1, 00-901 Warsaw, Poland. E-mail address: [email protected] (O. Kowalewski). © 2014 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Foreign direct...

...Frances Millard Poland maintained its open-list PR system but introduced gender quotas in the 2011 parliamentary elections in order to increase the number of women deputies. Yet this change had only a limited impact on women’s representation. The 2011 election confirms that ‘favorable’ electoral...

... austerity. * Corresponding author. © 2013 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Germany Poland Czech Republic Hungary Baltic states Central and Eastern Europe Euro zone...

...Kerry Longhurst The past 20 years have seen profound shifts in Polish foreign and security policy. Like other states in Central Europe Poland became part of the Euro-Atlantic sphere upon gaining first NATO and then EU membership. Despite such broad similarities, Poland’s trajectory since 1989 has...

... interest, alienation, democratic attitudes, and voting behavior. © 2013 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Political knowledge Sophistication Interest Participation Poland...

...Aurora A.C. Teixeira; Mariana Dias Despite connections and common traits between geopolitics and International Business based on geography and location, literature on this matter is scarce. This study aims to contribute to this literature gap, by assessing the importance of Poland’s geopolitical...