Privatizing the Police-State
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'This study is a model of what scholarship on secrecy-enshrouded topics should be.' - from the Foreword by Gary T. Marx
'...a fascinating and troubling book...[the authors] raise important questions about the nature of privatized Poland.' - Choice
'It is a well-done piece of research that integrates a wealth of information and makes visible some major trends in the transformation process.' - Nils Christie in Slavic Review
'Privatizing the Police-State examines the privatization of the state control apparatus and the impact this has had on post-socialist property relations and on the possibilities for a full break with the authoritarian system. [The authors] use sources gained through years of reading and careful field research.' - Louise Shelley in Demokratizatsiya
'This is a very important book for those who are interested in communism and in the structures of social domination in post-communism. It is important as an attempt to combine contemporary history, political science and institutional/political sociology. It is an important challenge to the prevailing understanding of communist rule, transition and current social and political structures in Poland.' - Andras Sajo in Law and Politics Book Review
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ANDRZEJ ZYBERTOWICZ is Associate Professor and Director, Institute of Sociology, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Clare Hall, Cambridge University and Visiting Research Scholar in Law at the Macquirie University, Sydney. His publications include (in Polish) Between Dogma and a Research Program, In the Grip of Secret Services: The Collapse of Communism and the Post-nomenklatura Networks and he has edited several books and published many articles in Polish and English.