The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate "Andrey
Nikolov" presents:
Polish Politics: Democratic
Deficit and Party System Institutionalization
ŕ public lecture by Radoslaw Markowski (Poland)
In his lecture Professor Markowski outlines the central features
and peculiar developments of the party system in Poland with
a special focus on the recent, post -EU accession period.
He looks for the sources of the fluidity and the lack of ‘systemness’
of the Polish party system in the post-communist transition
period of the country and offers an explanation for the recent
shifts in popularity of the Eurosceptic, radical anti-systemic
parties in Poland. The paradoxical situation of the highest
in the region voter volatility coupled with the lowest turnout
at elections there is also addressed. Yet it is the alarming
trend in Polish politics of questioning the very pillars of
liberal democracy not primarily by the general population
but mainly by the new political elite, which is at the centre
of the public talk of the prominent Polish political scientist.
More information for the lecturer:
Professor Markowski is the Head of the Electoral Research
Section of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish
Academy of Science sand the Chair of the Department of Political
Science at the Warsaw School of Social Psychology. He has
been a visiting professor at Duke, Wisconsin-Madison, Rutgers
and the Central European Universities. He has published widely
on comparative party systems, corruption, post-communist and
EU politics. He has co-authored six books, among them Post-Communist
Party Systems: Competition, Representation and Inter-party
Cooperation, (Cambridge UP, 1999 ). His recent articles include
"Pocketbooks, Politics and Parties: The 2003 Polish Referendum
on EU Membership", Electoral Studies; "The Misuse
of Referenda in Post-Communist Europe", The Journal of
Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 20(1), 2004 ; "When
does Turnout Matter? The Case of Poland", Europe-Asia
Studies, 56(3), 2004 ; "Why is corruption in Poland ‘a
serious cause for concern’?", Crime, Law & Social
Change, vol.41, 2004.
February 11 (Monday), 5.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova Hall
Free entrance
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