ABSTRACT
What the contributors to this volume offer is neither a romantic version of the course of Polish history nor a jubilant account of the recovery of national independence and political choice. Rather, they offer a variety of tough-minded analytic perspectives on what comes when "the party's over" - not just the PSPR but the celebration marking its downfall. They focus on Poland's movement toward an internationally competitive market economy, a political democracy in which plural interests compete, and the constitution of a civil society that both tolerates and ameliorates conflict. The multidisciplinary contributors include Jan Mujzel, Keith Crane, Benjamin Slay, Kazimierz Poznanski; Jan Bossak, Wojciech Bienkowski, Wlodzimierz Wesolowski, Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski, Adam Sarapata, Andrzej Sicinski, Piotr Lukasiewicz, Krzysztof Nowak, David S. Mason, Adrzej Rychard, Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Jack Bielasiak, Janusz Reykowski, Stanislaw Gebethner, Miroslawa Marody, Edmund Mokrzycki, and Michael D. Kennedy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|1 pages
From Command Toc Market
chapter 3|18 pages
Poland and The International Economy In The 1980s
part 2|1 pages
From Constraint to Choice
part 3|1 pages
From Control to Pluralism
chapter 11|14 pages
Participation and Interests
chapter 15|24 pages
Political Institutions in The Process of Transition To a Postsocialist Formation
part 4|1 pages
From One Truth to Many Voices