Why is it so bad when it’s so good? About democracy in Poland in the opinions of respondents and a certain tendency towards expressive power Cover Image

Dlaczego jest tak źle, skoro jest tak dobrze? O demokracji w Polsce w opiniach respondentów i pewnej tendencji do wyrazistej władzy
Why is it so bad when it’s so good? About democracy in Poland in the opinions of respondents and a certain tendency towards expressive power

Author(s): Łukasz Scheffs
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, Political psychology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: democration; decapillarization of power; public opinion

Summary/Abstract: Reflection on democracy in general, as well as its specific case, always poses many problems. They begin at the stage of trying to answer the question: what kind of democracy are we thinking about? What axio-normative foundation is at the base of the system which, in our (probably subjective) assessment, meets the criteria of sui generis democracy?Each of the intellectual attempts to capture the democratic phenomenon only to some extent answers the questions that bother us: sense, meaning, future and potential collapse of the system. The sketch presented here is only an attempt to present the opinions of the surveyed groups of respondents on the system and determinants of the democratic system in Poland and the confrontation of the opinions presented in the analyzes cited here with the general concept of decapillarization of power.The observations contained in this study are the result of a reconstruction made on the basis of the available literature on the subject and secondary data from research conducted by other authors, most often as part of broader research programs (projects). In this sense, the work is of a contributory, descriptive nature, and its considerations fall within the constructivist trend of contemporary social sciences, with particular emphasis on the sciences of politics and administration.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 19-35
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish