(Nie)skuteczność kwot dla kobiet w polskim prawie wyborczym. Odgórne kreowanie procesu rekrutacji politycznej vs „wola ludu” w państwie demokratycznym
(Un)Effectiveness of Quotas for Women in the Polish Electoral Law. Top-down Creation of the Political Recruitment Process vs. the “Will of the People” in a Democratic State

Summary/Abstract: Politics is traditionally dominated by men. In recent years, women’s participation has increased as a result of, among other factors, targeted equality policy actions. Among the many possible ways to attain this result the most familiar is the quota mechanism, sometimes (mistakenly) equated with gender parity. Łukasz Wawrowski’s aim in this article is to examine the implementation of this mechanism in the Polish electoral law using solutions developed in 2011, and to indicate its effectiveness from the perspective of the elections to the Sejm in October 2019. Wawrowski uses a double prism to treat the “antinomies of democracy” referred to in the text. First, he discusses the conditions to be met in order for the quota mechanism to be effective. Secondly, he ponders the extent to which such a “top-down imposition of the number of women involved” agrees with the essence of democracy, often understood as the implementation of the “will of the people”.

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