RIEDEL Polish Politics, Society and Economy [beendet]
Poland - its society as well as political and economic systems - remains one of the most intriguing states in contemporary Europe. Polish exceptionalism, so much present throughout its more then one thousands years history, reveals in various aspects of social, political and economic life also today. Emerging from the communist era, Poland faced serious crisis and in the pre-enlargement era very often was described as a laggard. Today, both the democratic transition as well as economic transformation are widely perceived as a success story. The course will open to the students an opportunity to get to know the biggest new (EU) member state, second largest (after UK) non-eurozone economy in the Single Market, very dynamic (often explosive) political system and a characteristic of a society that developed rapidly in the last decades. The course will comprise of traditional lectures as well as students’ presentations, group discussions and individual written assignments.
Poland and Central Europe. Democtatization, Consolidation and Europeanisation (co-edited by dr E. Nowak, UMCS – Lublin)_ in it: Introduction (co-authored by dr E. Nowak) pp. 9-20 and Europeanisation - theories, mechanisms and research agenda (co-authored by B. Nowak), pp. . 213-223, Wydawnictwo UMCS Lublin 2010
Before and After Accession – Ukraine and Poland in Integrating Europe edited by Rafał Riedel, in it: Introduction (pp. 7-10) and Polish Experience of Structuring Public Discourse, Information Policy and Public Opinion on the European Issues (Pp. 95-110), Uniwersytet Opolski Publishing House, Opole 2008
- Riedel, Contemporary Polish Transactional Society. On the Way to Civic Society? p. 17 in (edited monograph by: Andrzej Kracher, Rajmund Morawski, Non-governmental Organizations in Civic Society. Racibórz, 2007
Central Europe – Two Decades After (edited by R. Riedel), in it: Introduction, pp. 5-14, Democracy Building in Central and Eastern Europe. Transitology and Considology Revisited, pp. 15-26 and Poland’s Opportunistic Democracy. (co-authored by dr Axel Kaehne – Cardiff University) pp. 431-448, Program Wydawniczy Centrum Europejskiego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw 2010