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INDIVIDUALISM AND THE RISE OF DEMOCRACY IN POLAND

"This book investigates the long-term preconditions of lasting and successful democratization. It counters conventional wisdom that they are a matter of proper institutional design, or that the political culture of democracy is a by-product of modernizing economic change. Instead, it argues tha...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: GRABOWSKI, DR. TOMEK
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : UNIV OF ROCHESTER PRESS, 2023.
Series:Rochester studies in East and Central Europe.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Political activity > Poland.
Catholic Church
Individualism > Political aspects > Poland.
Social change > Political aspects > Poland.
Democratization > Poland.
Poland > Politics and government > 1945-1980.
Democratization
Individualism > Political aspects
Political participation
Politics and government
Social change > Political aspects
Poland
1945-1980
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Individualism and social theory
  • Four discourses of individualism
  • Individualism reconsidered
  • Theories of social individuation and a way forward
  • Part Two. Individualism and democracy in Poland
  • The democratic promise of western Poland
  • Individualism disaggregated : the Wrocław and Łódź elites in a cultural perspective
  • Part Three. Rupture and reintegration
  • Rupture, 1945-1948
  • The Communist Party and the taming of the frontier, 1949-1955
  • A quasi-reformation : the Catholic Church in the western territories, 1945-1956
  • The socializers, 1965-1980
  • Conclusion : the resilience of individualism
  • Appendix 1. Selected socioeconomic development indicators for Wrocław and Łódź at the beginning of the democratic era (1994)
  • Appendix 2. Interview questionnaire for sorting out individual and corporate identities
  • Appendix 3. List of interviewees together with their classification into two main identity types.

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