Stronnictwo Demokratyczne w świetle teorii demokracji Giovanniego Sartoriego. Analiza politologiczna w ujęciu systemowym
The Alliance of Democrats (Stronnictwo Demokratyczne) in the light of Giovanni Sartori’s theory of democracy. Political science analysis conducted in systemic perspective

Summary/Abstract: In this article, on the basis of analysed research material, an attempt is made to confront within the realm of political science the problematics of system and structure of a political party, using as an example the Alliance of Democrats, with Giovanni Sartori’s theory of democracy. As a consequence of the said research framework, it must be acknowledged that the transformation of political party system in Poland was influenced by ideological discourse (also coming from academia) regarding liberal democracy. Additionally, when the Polish party system began to form after the events of 1989, the parties’ representatives referred to democracy and the process of democratization in an idealistic and idealized manner. This approach has become a source of extensive normative solutions and behavioural patterns (at the level of economy, politics, and society), often hardly feasible in Polish political practice. In this context, the presence of the Alliance of Democrats in the Polish party system has become an element of the identity of Poland’s party/political system understood in this way, based on the rule of continuity and change, of a functional and dysfunctional nature.

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