Towards pillarisation? Coalitions of Polish protest in 2020

Grzegorz Ekiert argues that the organisational trajectory of civil society in Poland has fundamental features directing it towards political polarization. According to the author, Polish civil society has evolved into an organisational form that can be described as a "pillarized civil society". Despite the formulation of a strong thesis for "pillarized civil society", it has not yet been empirically verified. Using a selection of protest events from daily newspapers, I use social network analysis to map the protest coalitions of 2020. I pose the question to what extent coalitions of protest in Polish civil society form a pillarised, vertical structure

Civil society · Newspaper · Polarization (electrochemistry · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Selection (genetic algorithm · Social movement · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Media and Politics

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