Dead ends and new beginnings

The quest for a procedural republic in Poland

Bibliographic Data

ID6180736
AuthorsKrzysztof Jasiewicz (0000-0001-9559-972X, Washington and Lee University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume33
Issue1
Pages101-122
Publication date2000-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1016/s0967-067x(99)00027-6
OpenAlexW2038685747
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

The article, by juxtaposing the Polish and the American democratic consolidations, examines the deficiencies of the state transformation in Poland, focusing specifically on the conflict between a procedural and a substantive interpretation of democratic order. The analysis of the act that initiated the process of transition to democracy, the Roundtable Accord of 1989, is followed by a case study of an imperfect consensus and political compromise, the choices of electoral laws. After discussion of some other cases of ill-conceived institutional designs, the article concludes with an analysis of the socio-political background of the institutional transformation in Poland

Compromise · Democracy · Economics · Imperfect · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies

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