Democratic Government in Poland
Subtitle: Constitutional Politics Since 1989
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780333774755
Subjects: Central government; Constitution: government & the state; International relations; Political structures: democracy; c 1990 to c 2000; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Poland; Political Process - General; Political Science / General; Political Science / Practical Politics; General; 1989-; Constitutional history; Politics and government
First sentence: The achievement of political modernity in Poland has been dominated by the struggle to regain independence lost in the nineteenth century and to protect independence threatened in the twentieth century.
Description: Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Democratic government has now been entrenched in Poland. An increasingly significant European actor, Poland presents problematic but also stimulating challenges to new NATO and EU associates. This authoritative overview examines in depth the constitutional and governmental framework in Poland since 1989 and its central political institutions, mechanisms, and actors. Sanford demonstrates how the governmental system evolved pragmatically during the 1990s to cope with modernization and consolidated viable independent statehood consensually around Poland's hardy constitutional values.