Hubert Tworzecki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1073379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hubert Tworzecki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hubert |
| FAMILY NAME | Tworzecki |
| SIGNATURE | TWORZECKI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8295-2384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland
Democratic careening" aptly captures Poland's recent oscillation between liberal democracy, illiberalism, and efforts toward the recovery of liberal democratic norms. In contrast to the recent experience of Hungary, Poland's hard right governing party was unable to amend the nation's constitution as it attempted to consolidate power, so it relied on ordinary legislation and changes of personnel in the judiciary and other state institutions. This …
Poland
Poland represents a surprising case of democratic backsliding since the return to power of the PiS party in 2015, given that positive conditions associated with democracy are present-consistent strong per capita economic growth since 1989, moderate inequality, rising wages, strong preference for democracy, high levels of happiness, and a parliamentary system with proportional representation. The lack of strong underlying cleavages indicates the p…
Political Science
This entry provides an overview of how political science approaches the study of communication. Starting with the premise that for most people politics is a mediated experience, political science asks: mediated how, by whom, and with what consequences for individuals and for political systems?
Media and campaign effects on vote choice at national elections in Europe
This article reviews the empirical research literature on campaign and media effects on vote choice at national elections in European countries for the post-World War II period. Particular efforts are undertaken to obtain a comprehensive picture by including publications in many different languages. With regard to the amount of research, but also the topics addressed, the survey reveals considerable differences between countries. Studies of campa…
Knowledge and Partisan Bias
The conventional argument in studies of political knowledge among members of the general public is that greater interest and engagement in politics leads to a better grasp of the relevant facts. However, this may not always be the case: When the facts themselves become politicized, interest and engagement in politics may mean learning the facts not as they are, but as competing partisan and media elites want them to be. In this article, based on …
Media Use and Political Engagement in Three New Democracies
Political communications literature has long been concerned with the question of whether media exposure results in symptoms of “malaise”—disaffection and withdrawal from politics—or, alternatively, whether it can mobilize people for political activity. Thus far, the results of research into this question have been inconclusive and at times contradictory in nature. However, nearly all such studies have been conducted in the context of the United S…
The Polish parliamentary elections of October 2011
Media Uses and Effects in New Democracies
To what extent are established democracies and new democracies moving closer together in terms of the impact of media messages in electoral campaigns? Drawing on a content analysis of main evening television news on flagship programs over two months during the Polish National Election Study’s two-wave panel study ( N = 1,200) spanning parliamentary and presidential elections in September and October 2005, the authors identify the impact of media …
A disaffected new democracy? Identities, institutions and civic engagement in post-communist Poland
Focusing on the case of Poland and utilizing mass opinion survey data, this paper examines the phenomenon of widespread popular disengagement from civic and political life by testing the relative explanatory power of cultural and institutional hypotheses. The former see disengagement as the consequence of values and patterns of behavior that are in some ways incompatible with pluralist politics, whereas the latter see disengagement as the result …
The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies
The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies: The Cases of East-Central Europe, Russia and Ukraine
Social Democracy in East-Central Europe
In the parliamentary elections of 2001, Poland's ex-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) won more than three times the number of votes than any other party, registering its best result since 1989 and simultaneously delivering a crushing blow to the ruling Solidarity-led coalition, which not only lost power but also failed to win any seats in the lower house of parliament. If at the time of communism's collapse someone had gazed into a crystal…
Learning to Choose
Welfare-State Attitudes and Electoral Outcomes in Poland and Hungary
Poles and Hungarians became accustomed to welfare-state benefits under the communists, but this had surprisingly little influence on their voting behavior when the communist era ended. The party systems that emerged in both countries defused the threat of anti-reform backlash
Subversive Institutions
The Role of Elections and Voting Beha Vior in Democra Tic Consolida Tion in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic
The Polish presidential elections of 1995
The Polish parliamentary elections of 1993
Poland
Poland represents a surprising case of democratic backsliding since the return to power of the PiS party in 2015, given that positive conditions associated with democracy are present-consistent strong per capita economic growth since 1989, moderate inequality, rising wages, strong preference for democracy, high levels of happiness, and a parliamentary system with proportional representation. The lack of strong underlying cleavages indicates the p…
The Polish parliamentary elections of October 2011
Media Use and Political Engagement in Three New Democracies
Political communications literature has long been concerned with the question of whether media exposure results in symptoms of “malaise”—disaffection and withdrawal from politics—or, alternatively, whether it can mobilize people for political activity. Thus far, the results of research into this question have been inconclusive and at times contradictory in nature. However, nearly all such studies have been conducted in the context of the United S…
The Polish parliamentary elections of 1993
Learning to Choose
The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies
The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies: The Cases of East-Central Europe, Russia and Ukraine
Knowledge and Partisan Bias
The conventional argument in studies of political knowledge among members of the general public is that greater interest and engagement in politics leads to a better grasp of the relevant facts. However, this may not always be the case: When the facts themselves become politicized, interest and engagement in politics may mean learning the facts not as they are, but as competing partisan and media elites want them to be. In this article, based on …
A disaffected new democracy? Identities, institutions and civic engagement in post-communist Poland
Focusing on the case of Poland and utilizing mass opinion survey data, this paper examines the phenomenon of widespread popular disengagement from civic and political life by testing the relative explanatory power of cultural and institutional hypotheses. The former see disengagement as the consequence of values and patterns of behavior that are in some ways incompatible with pluralist politics, whereas the latter see disengagement as the result …
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland
Democratic careening" aptly captures Poland's recent oscillation between liberal democracy, illiberalism, and efforts toward the recovery of liberal democratic norms. In contrast to the recent experience of Hungary, Poland's hard right governing party was unable to amend the nation's constitution as it attempted to consolidate power, so it relied on ordinary legislation and changes of personnel in the judiciary and other state institutions. This …
Media Uses and Effects in New Democracies
To what extent are established democracies and new democracies moving closer together in terms of the impact of media messages in electoral campaigns? Drawing on a content analysis of main evening television news on flagship programs over two months during the Polish National Election Study’s two-wave panel study ( N = 1,200) spanning parliamentary and presidential elections in September and October 2005, the authors identify the impact of media …
Welfare-State Attitudes and Electoral Outcomes in Poland and Hungary
Poles and Hungarians became accustomed to welfare-state benefits under the communists, but this had surprisingly little influence on their voting behavior when the communist era ended. The party systems that emerged in both countries defused the threat of anti-reform backlash
The Polish parliamentary elections of 1993
The Polish presidential elections of 1995
The Role of Elections and Voting Beha Vior in Democra Tic Consolida Tion in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic
Welfare-State Attitudes and Electoral Outcomes in Poland and Hungary
Poles and Hungarians became accustomed to welfare-state benefits under the communists, but this had surprisingly little influence on their voting behavior when the communist era ended. The party systems that emerged in both countries defused the threat of anti-reform backlash
Subversive Institutions
Social Democracy in East-Central Europe
In the parliamentary elections of 2001, Poland's ex-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) won more than three times the number of votes than any other party, registering its best result since 1989 and simultaneously delivering a crushing blow to the ruling Solidarity-led coalition, which not only lost power but also failed to win any seats in the lower house of parliament. If at the time of communism's collapse someone had gazed into a crystal…
Learning to Choose
The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies
The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies: The Cases of East-Central Europe, Russia and Ukraine
A disaffected new democracy? Identities, institutions and civic engagement in post-communist Poland
Focusing on the case of Poland and utilizing mass opinion survey data, this paper examines the phenomenon of widespread popular disengagement from civic and political life by testing the relative explanatory power of cultural and institutional hypotheses. The former see disengagement as the consequence of values and patterns of behavior that are in some ways incompatible with pluralist politics, whereas the latter see disengagement as the result …
Media Uses and Effects in New Democracies
To what extent are established democracies and new democracies moving closer together in terms of the impact of media messages in electoral campaigns? Drawing on a content analysis of main evening television news on flagship programs over two months during the Polish National Election Study’s two-wave panel study ( N = 1,200) spanning parliamentary and presidential elections in September and October 2005, the authors identify the impact of media …
Media Use and Political Engagement in Three New Democracies
Political communications literature has long been concerned with the question of whether media exposure results in symptoms of “malaise”—disaffection and withdrawal from politics—or, alternatively, whether it can mobilize people for political activity. Thus far, the results of research into this question have been inconclusive and at times contradictory in nature. However, nearly all such studies have been conducted in the context of the United S…
The Polish parliamentary elections of October 2011
Knowledge and Partisan Bias
The conventional argument in studies of political knowledge among members of the general public is that greater interest and engagement in politics leads to a better grasp of the relevant facts. However, this may not always be the case: When the facts themselves become politicized, interest and engagement in politics may mean learning the facts not as they are, but as competing partisan and media elites want them to be. In this article, based on …
Political Science
This entry provides an overview of how political science approaches the study of communication. Starting with the premise that for most people politics is a mediated experience, political science asks: mediated how, by whom, and with what consequences for individuals and for political systems?
Media and campaign effects on vote choice at national elections in Europe
This article reviews the empirical research literature on campaign and media effects on vote choice at national elections in European countries for the post-World War II period. Particular efforts are undertaken to obtain a comprehensive picture by including publications in many different languages. With regard to the amount of research, but also the topics addressed, the survey reveals considerable differences between countries. Studies of campa…
Poland
Poland represents a surprising case of democratic backsliding since the return to power of the PiS party in 2015, given that positive conditions associated with democracy are present-consistent strong per capita economic growth since 1989, moderate inequality, rising wages, strong preference for democracy, high levels of happiness, and a parliamentary system with proportional representation. The lack of strong underlying cleavages indicates the p…
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland
Democratic careening" aptly captures Poland's recent oscillation between liberal democracy, illiberalism, and efforts toward the recovery of liberal democratic norms. In contrast to the recent experience of Hungary, Poland's hard right governing party was unable to amend the nation's constitution as it attempted to consolidate power, so it relied on ordinary legislation and changes of personnel in the judiciary and other state institutions. This …
Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (8 works) · Democracy (7 works) · Communism (5 works) · Economics (5 works)