Modernizacja polityczna w Polsce po 1989 roku – uwarunkowania przemian
Political Modernization in Poland after 1989 – Dissertations on the Origin and the Factors of Transformation

Summary/Abstract: This paper concerns the issue of the external and internal factors influencing the process of political modernization in Poland after 1989, including Europe-anization as the very important and complex paradigm for the politics of reforms in Poland. Dissertations that were carried out refer to the following scope of changes: political and system changes, economic and social changes. Among the internal determinants of changes, the initial situation (as the conse-quence of the Second World War, the occupation and the legacy of the Commu-nist era), the continual changes of the new countryand political parties, the changes in legislation, the voice of Solidarity movement, the attitude of Catholic church, economic issues and public feeling, were pointed out and discussed As far as the external determinants are concerned, the attention was focused on the demise of the Communist Bloc, the reunification of Germany, the change in the international position of Poland, the globalpolitics of Russia, the Polish accession to NATO and to the European Union, the opening of Poland to world markets and the inflow of international capital and new technologies.

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