Poland's path from civil society to consolidated democracy: One step forward, one step back?

From: Canadian Slavonic Papers | Date: March 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

In studying democratic breakthroughs in Central and Eastern Europe, the part played by the existence of a civil society has received considerable attention. Civil society as space in which social groups exist and move was an attractive metaphysical notion that seemed to capture the unbridgeable gap between rulers and ruled in the communist world. That just a few nations of the Soviet bloc ("In general terms the development of civil society could be regarded as high only in Hungary and Poland"2) exhibited autonomous structures of civil society3 before 1989 did not prevent this conceptual tool ...

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