Bücher der Reihe Warsaw Studies in Politics and Society

The book is a study of the state of contemporary Polish democracy. As other similar initiatives across the world, it aims at portraying detailed aspects of performance of the Polish democracy. It covers all dimensions and components of democracy, depicts and evaluates it from three different methodological angles.

This book presents empirical comparative research findings regarding the educational effect on political and social tolerance across 24 and 33 countries at two time points. It argues there are several micro- and macro-level conditions that should be fulfilled for the positive effect of education to take place.

This book is an account of protests organized in Poland by trade unions from the late socialism to 21st century. It uses protest event analysis and mass surveys to examine the impact of trade unions on institutions before and after systemic change. Trade unions were crucial for transformation, but their impact subsequently declined.

This book discusses the theoretical premises and the institutional context of the inDialogue software's development and implementation. It has been designed to intervene in the practice of public consultations, which is a weak but institutionally embedded form of civic participation in political decision-making.

Experience regarding the practice of deliberation grows and the position from which we evaluate it changes. This book concerns: contemporary challenges and approaches to the public sphere, Deliberative Polling applied in different contexts, reflection on deliberative quality. It problematizes democratic deliberation as it relates to the politics.