POLES’ PROTEST BEHAVIOUR IN 1989–2009 Cover Image

AKTYWNOŚĆ PROTESTACYJNA POLAKÓW W LATACH 1989–2009
POLES’ PROTEST BEHAVIOUR IN 1989–2009

Author(s): Paulina Sekuła
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Civil Society, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
Keywords: protest; strike activity; waves of protest; economic interests; values

Summary/Abstract: The study tackles the problem of Poles’ protest activity after the fall of communism. It engages in empirically testing whether the protest mobilization in Poland, compara-tively low in the initial stage of democratic transformation, had strengthened since then. The results of surveys analyzed in the paper prove that whereas the level of protest support had risen, protest activity had even declined. Most active were several occupational groups, who in consecutive waves of protest acted in defence of their economic interests, mainly by going on strikes. Disputes concentrated on values, including the post-materialist, were episodic.

  • Issue Year: 11/2013
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 85-99
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish