Poland and the European Union

ISBN-13: 9780415238854 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 224 str.

Karl Cordell

Opis

This authoritative volume assesses how the recently democratized political system in Poland is adapting to the challenges posed by the country's desire to rejoin Europe. Its panel of Polish academics considers various issues not generally well-known to the English-speaking world, but of great importance in the light of Poland's impending entry into the European Union. Its authors demonstrate that the evolution of political forms and life in Poland is related to, and sometimes governed by, Poland's desire to join the EU. Subjects covered include; the changing nature of Poland's foreign policy; the value system of Polish politics; the changing nature of party politics; the reform of public administration and local government; and bilateral relations with Ukraine and Germany.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: aims and objectives Karl Cordell 2. Contemporary government attitudes towards the European Union Teresa Los-Nowak 3. Polish perceptions of the European Union in the 1990s Elzbieta Stadtmüller 4. Emergent democratic citizenship in Poland: a study of changing value patterns Kazimierz Dziubka 5. Political competition in Poland: traditionalisation or westernisation? Andrzej Antoszewski 6. Parties and the Polish party system: the process of structuring the political space Ryszard Herbut 7. The marketing of political parties in the 1990s: a comparative study Robert Wiszniowski 8. The Europeanisation of government in Poland in the 1990s Andrzej W. Jablonski 9. The reform of Polish local government, and the Europe of the regions Wieslaw Bokajlo 10. Poland, die Vertriebenen , and the road to integration with the European Union Tadeusz Lebioda 11. The European Union and Ukrainian-Polish relations Andrzej Dybczynski 12. Conclusion Karl Cordell

O autorze

Karl Cordell is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Plymouth. His previous publications include Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe and The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe.