This authoritative volume assesses how the recently democratised political system in
Poland is adapting to the challenges posed by the country's desire to "rejoin
Europe". Its excellent panel of highly respected Polish academics considers various
issues not generally well-known to the English-speaking world, but of great importance in
the light of Poland's impending entry into the European Union.
Contents:
1. Introduction: aims and objectives Karl Cordell
2. Contemporary government attitudes towards the European Union Teresa Los-Nowak
3. Polish perceptions of the European Union in the 1990s Elzbieta Stadtmüller
4. Emergent democratic citizenship in Poland: a study of changing value patterns Kazimierz
Dziubka
5. Political competition in Poland: traditionalisation or westernisation? Andrzej
Antoszewski
6. Parties and the Polish party system: the process of structuring the political space
Ryszard Herbut
7. The marketing of political parties in the 1990s: a comparative study Robert Wiszniowski
8. The Europeanisation of government in Poland in the 1990s Andrzej W. Jablonski
9. The reform of Polish local government, and the Europe of the regions Wieslaw Bokajlo
10. Poland, die Vertriebenen, and the road to integration with the European Union Tadeusz
Lebioda
11. The European Union and Ukrainian-Polish relations Andrzej Dybczynski
12. Conclusion Karl Cordell
Author Biography:
Karl Cordell is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Plymouth. His previous
publications include Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe and The Politics of
Ethnicity in Central Europe.
Full Contributors:
Andrzej Antoszewski, University of Wroclaw, Wieslaw Bokajlo, University of Wroclaw, Karl
Cordell, University of Plymouth, UK, Andrzej Dybczynski, University of Wroclaw, Kazimierz
Dziubka, University of Wroclaw, Ryszard Herbut, University of Wroclaw, Andrzej W.
Jablonski, University of Wroclaw, Tadeusz Lebioda, University of Wroclaw, Teresa
Los-Nowak, University of Wroclaw, Elziebeta Stadtmuller, University of Wroclaw, Robert
Wiszniowski, University of Wroclaw
224 pages
