Part I. Introduction
1: KATARZYNA WALECKA, SIMONA GUERRA AND FERNANDO CASAL BERTOA: Polish Politics: an Introduction
2: NORMAN DAVIES: History and Politics
Part II. Past and Present
3: ANTONI DUDEK: The Communist Rule (1945-1989) and Its Influence on Contemporary Political Life
4: KRZYSTOF JASIEWICZ: The Round Table Accord and Elections of 1989: The Foundation Myth that Faded Away
5: WIKTOR MARZEC AND TOMASZ ZARYCKI: Structural Entanglements of Polish Politics in Historical Perspective
6: MITCHELL A. ORENSTEIN: Democratisation and Marketisation
7: IPEK CINAR AND MONIKA NALEPA: Transnational Justice and Elite Polarisation
8: BARBARA GRABOWSKA-MOROZ: Rule of law and democratic backsliding in Poland - stages, methods, outcomes
Part III. Institutions
9: JAROSLAW FLIS AND MAREK M. KAMINSKI: Electoral System: Genesis, Evolution, and Functioning
10: KAMIL MARCINKIEWICZ: Parliamentary Transformation: Unstable Parties, State Party Families
11: PHILIPP KOEKER: Presidential Politics
12: ANDRZEJ ANTOSZEWSKI AND PRZEMYSLAW ZUKIEWICZ: Coalition Governments and Coalitions Politics
13: ADAM BODNAR AND ADAM PLOSZKA: The Struggle for the Independence of the Judiciary: From Communism to the Rule of Law Crisis
14: KINGA WOJTAS AND RAFAL MATYJA: Public Administration
15: ADAM GENDZWILL: Decentralization and Local Politics
Part IV. Mass Politics and Voters
16: MARTA BUCHOLC AND IRENEUSZ PAWEL KAROLEWSKI: Nationalism
17: AGNIESZKA KWIATKOWSKA AND KATARZYNA WALECKA: Polarised Democracy: Diverging Attitudes Towards Democracy
18: JAN KUBIK, MICHAEL BERNHARD AND GRZEGORZ EKIERT: Political Culture
19: MICHAL KOTNAROWSKI: Short-term Determinants of Electoral Behaviour: Economic Voting and Its Extensions
20: HUBERT TWORZECKI: The Social Structure and Electoral Behaviour
21: MIKOLAJ CZESNIK AND PIOTR ZAGORSKI: Electoral Turnout
22: DAMIAN GUZEK, MAREK MAZUR AND KAROLINA KOC-MICHALSKA: Mass Media and Political Communication
23: PAWEL MATUSZEWSKI AND MAREK TROSZYNSKI: Social Media and Politics
Part V. Political Parties and the Party System
24: KATARZYNA SOBOLEWSKA-MYSLIK: Parliamentary and Presidential Elections
25: RADOS?AW MARKOWSKI: Party System: Stability and Change
26: FERNANDO CASAL BERTOA AND INGRID VAN BIEZEN: Party Regulation: A Laissez-Faire Affair
27: FERNANDO CASAL BERTOA, TOMASZ GASIOR, MAGDALENA MUSIAL-KARG AND MARCIN WALECKI: Party Funding Regulation: From De-communisation to De-stabilisation
28: KATARZYNA WALECKA AND MARIA WINCLAWSKA: Political Parties as Organizations
29: MACIEJ HARTLINSKI: Pathways and Background of Political Leaders and Elites
30: BEATA KOSOWSKA-GASTOL: Candidate Selection in National and European Parliament Elections
31: BEN STANLEY: Political parties and Ideological Representation
Party VI. Society
32: ANNA GWIAZDA: Gender and Politics
33: ANNA GRZYMALA-BUSSE: Religion and Politics
34: GRZEGORZ EKIERT, JAN KUBIK AND MICHAEL BERNHARD: Social Movements and Protests
35: MICHAEL BERNHARD, JAN KUBIK AND GRZEGORZ EKIERT: Social Capital and Civil Society
36: PATRYCJA ROZBICKA AND PAWEL KAMINSKI: Interest Groups and Trade Unions
37: JOANNA FOMINA AND JACEK KUCHARCZYK: The Immigration Policy Debate in Poland, 1989-2023: From Institutionalisation to Instrumentalisation
Part VII. Governance and Public Policies
38: MAREK NACZYK: Dependency and developmentalism in Poland's FDI-led growth model
39: JOANNA TYROWICZ AND MARCIN BOJANOWSKI: Labour Market Policies
40: DOROTA SZELEWA AND MICHAL POLAKOWSKI: The evolution of social policy: continuity and change
41: MACIEJ JAKUBOWSKI AND TOMASZ GAJDEROWICZ: The politics and education policies
42: BARBARA WIECKOWSKA, ALDONA FRACZKIEWICZ-WRONKA, IGA RUDAWSKA AND CHRISTOPH SOWADA: Health Policies
43: GRZEGORZ MAKOWSKI AND ADAM SAWICKI: Corruption and anti-corruption policy in Poland
Part VIII. Poland and the European Union
44: ANNA PACZESNIAK: Poland in the European Union: the corrosion of consensus
45: ALEKSANDRA SOJKA: Political Elites and the European Union
46: SIMONA GUERRA: Explaining attitudes towards the EU
47: MAGDALENA GORA AND KATARZYNA ZIELINSKA: Between Europe and the Nation: The Polish Representation in the European Parliament
48: WOJCIECH GAGATEK: Politicizing Europe: Challenges to Domestic Political Competition
49: AGNIESZKA K. CIANCIARA: EU Decision-making: a Case of Differentiated (Dis)integration?
50: MONIKA SUS: Poland and the European Union's foreign policy
Part IX. Foreign Policy and Defence
51: STEFAN SZWED: The awkward middle power: Poland's foreign policy after 1989
52: BARTLOMIEJ E. NOWAK: Security and Geostrategy
53: OLAF OSICA: Poland's uneasy relations with its defence policy
54: SEBASTIAN KUBAS: Poland and the Visegrad Group
55: MICHAL NATORSKI: Polish Eastern foreign policy from the postcolonial perspective
56: PAULINA POSPIESZNA AND TSVETA PETROVA: Poland and Democracy Promotion
