{"title":"Selected areas of female MPs presence in the Polish Sejm in 1991–2018 – quantitative aspects","authors":"Beata Pająk-Patkowska","doi":"10.14746/PP.2020.25.4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/PP.2020.25.4.4","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes representation of women in the Polish Parliament (Sejm) in 1991–2018, a period which corresponds to 8 terms of office. The analysis excludes the Sejm of the 10th term of office (1989–1991) due to the specific nature of the election and a different mode of its operation in the period concerned. Areas of activity and female MP participation were defined based on documents that regulate the working of the Sejm. The hypothesis assumes that main bodies and institutions of the legislative branch (Presidium, Marshal, parliamentary committees) show a disparity between the number of male and female MPs. Another hypothesis is that women are more active in committees that deal with issues stereotypically associated with women, such education and health. The study involved document and statistical analyses to compare data pertaining to the activity of male and female MPs. Research materials comprise data available at sejm.gov.pl (archives of eight terms of office). It is worth emphasizing that the website is a reliable source of information. A large part of resources has been digitized which facilitates access to research materials.","PeriodicalId":52588,"journal":{"name":"Przeglad Politologiczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67377764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-level Governance of Integration Policy. Role of the Cities. Comparison of Warsaw and Prague","authors":"P. Matusz, M. Pawlak","doi":"10.14746/PP.2020.25.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/PP.2020.25.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the role of the cities in the multi-level governance of integration policy. The goal was to analyse the relations of diverse actors in a multi-level governance context and the direct impact of the transnational EU policy to local level actors (that also bypassed the national level). We show how the interconnection of policy levels and the presence of actors in many roles in the process of developing immigrant integration policies resulted in the top-down transfer of policy goals. We also highlight the converse perspective and demonstrate how bottom-up policy initiatives strengthen the position of cities as important players in the multilevel governance, both individually and collectively.","PeriodicalId":52588,"journal":{"name":"Przeglad Politologiczny","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48831302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The issue of raw material security in Poland’s contemporary national security strategies","authors":"Rafał Kamprowski","doi":"10.14746/PP.2020.25.4.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/PP.2020.25.4.6","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the issue of ensuring raw material security as seen in the contemporary national security strategies of Poland. The temporal framework identified as “contemporary” indicates that the analysis embraced documents from the period 2003–2020, which mark a significant qualitative change in terms of defining and understanding security as an area which is not dominated by its hard, military aspect. The study aims to identify, discuss and compare various concepts of ensuring raw material security to Poland on the basis of the four strategies of Poland’s national security. The following research problems were formulated to achieve the research objectives defined in this way: to what extent is the issue of Poland’s raw material security present in the documents analyzed? What tools have the authors of the strategies employed to ensure security in Poland in terms of raw materials? What are the main difficulties in ensuring raw material security to Poland highlighted by the analyzed national security strategies? Are there any convergences in the visions of ensuring Poland’s raw material security presented in the analyzed strategies? The research questions formulated in this way served as the basis for the following research hypothesis: given an increase in non-military threats, the raw material-related dimension of security is increasingly emphasized in national security strategies. The research methods used in this article include the comparative method and source analysis. The technique of analysis was also used.","PeriodicalId":52588,"journal":{"name":"Przeglad Politologiczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67377906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Condition of Local Government in Poland vs StructuralReforms of Municipal Government in Scandinavian States","authors":"J. Osiński, Izabela Zawiślińska","doi":"10.14746/pp.2020.25.4.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/pp.2020.25.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"The authors have undertaken an analysis of the phenomenon of debt of local government units in Poland. It is a dynamic phenomenon, which affects vast majority of municipalities and districts. A barrier to debt expansion has been established in the form of the Individual Debt Index (IOI), which has been in place since 2014 and its new elements entered into force on 1 January 2020. The structure of the index is intended to allow regional accounting chambers (RIO) to control the process and prevent its progression. The authors indicate, however, that the main problem for local self-government units is insufficient own income, which forces them to increase the pool of funds transferred from the central budget to self-governments in the form of grants and subventions and to look for various forms of loans for their activities. Using the experience of the Scandinavian countries, the authors propose to start territorial and resource consolidation reforms of small local government units – municipalities and districts. The aim is to facilitate better use of endogenous resources of territorial self-government units and use of economies of scale related to local economy and social resources. This should result, as in Scandinavia, in the development of public entrepreneurship, higher social efficiency and effectiveness, and stabilisation of the income of individual units. After more than 20 years of operation, small local government units in Poland have become structurally and functionally obsolete and do not guarantee modern development of local communities.","PeriodicalId":52588,"journal":{"name":"Przeglad Politologiczny","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48159286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Działalność Straży Miejskiej Miasta Poznania w latach 2015–2019","authors":"P. Antkowiak, Joanna Radzioch","doi":"10.14746/pp.2020.25.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/pp.2020.25.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"Istotnym elementem modelu samorządowego w Polsce jest niewątpliwie funkcjonująca od początku jego restytucji w Polsce straż gminna. Obchodzona w tym roku okrągła rocznica przywrócenia w Polsce samorządu terytorialnego jest okazją do wielu podsumowań i wyciągania wniosków na przyszłość. O ile w przypadku dyskusji na temat funkcjonowania samorządu terytorialnego w Polsce próżno poszukiwać głosów, które mówiłyby o próbie wycofania się z reformy samorządowej, o tyle w dyskusji publicznej coraz częściej pojawia się postulat likwidacji straży gminnych z polskiego systemu bezpieczeństwa publicznego. Warto jednak, dyskutując na temat zasadności funkcjonowania straży gminnych, oprzeć się na materiale źródłowym, który w jasny i klarowny sposób obrazuje zakres jej działań i tym samym opisuje pełnioną rolę w systemie bezpieczeństwa publicznego na poziomie lokalnym. Celem niniejszego opracowania jest przede wszystkim scharakteryzowanie działań jednostki we wskazanych latach, które świadczą o zasadności jej istnienia w mieście wojewódzkim, jakim jest Poznań.","PeriodicalId":52588,"journal":{"name":"Przeglad Politologiczny","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49492567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Między wolnością a upolitycznieniem mediów publicznych","authors":"Lucyna Szot","doi":"10.14746/pp.2020.25.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/pp.2020.25.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"Zjawisko polityzacji mediów publicznych w Polsce, stanowi istotne zagrożenie dla ich niezależności. Media publiczne odgrywają zasadniczą rolę w zakresie reprezentacji interesów społecznych m.in. różnorodność, niezależność oraz rzetelność i kompletność informacji. Publiczna radiofonia i telewizja realizuje misję publiczną i kształtuje społeczeństwo obywatelskie. Obowiązek realizacji misji społecznej przez media publiczne wynika z treści ustawy o radiofonii i telewizji. Wobec zjawiska komercjalizacji i polityzacji, w rzeczywistości brak materialnych gwarancji realizacji misji społecznej. \u0000Media publiczne umożliwiają legitymizację medialną polityków, co zderza się z niezależną pozycją organizacji medialnych. Tendencja uwolnienia się mediów od jakiejkolwiek politycznej kontroli, pozostaje w sprzeczności z tendencją do wywierania wpływu przez polityków na zawartość mediów (polityzacja mediów). \u0000Rzeczpospolita Polska jest demokratycznym państwem prawnym. W sferze komunikowania społecznego fundamentalne jest prawo do wolności prasy i wolności słowa. Zasadniczą rolę w zakresie reprezentacji interesów społecznych odgrywają autonomiczne media publiczne i niezależni dziennikarze. \u0000Artykuł stanowi wprowadzenie do analizy związanej z mechanizmami nadmiernego upolitycznienia mediów publicznych w Polsce. Autorka posługuje się podejściem normatywnym oraz metodą badań empirycznych ilościowych – kwestionariusza anonimowego przeprowadzonego wśród dziennikarzy mediów regionalnych. Podstawowym celem badawczym jest analiza uwarunkowań niezależności mediów publicznych i dziennikarzy w Polsce, w kontekście procesu polityzacji. \u0000Konstytucyjne deklaracje wolności prasy nie znajdują odzwierciedlenia w rzeczywistości, w szczególności w odniesieniu do mediów publicznych. Obecny status prawny i finansowy mediów publicznych skazuje z góry ich organy, na uzależnienie polityczne i balansowanie pomiędzy realizacją misji a koniecznością osiągania zysków.","PeriodicalId":52588,"journal":{"name":"Przeglad Politologiczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67377689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migration policy and national minorities in the Republic of Lithuania: lessons for Ukraine","authors":"T. Shulga","doi":"10.14746/pp.2020.25.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/pp.2020.25.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the article is to determine the factors that influenced the process of the development and implementation of Lithuania’s foreign and domestic policies in the field of migration within the framework of the EU rules (dispositive and imperative) and identify those factors that may have a similar effect on the stability of migration processes in Ukraine with regard to its accession to the EU. The task is to determine the problems (negative preconditions and consequences) of the migration sector based on the analysis of more than a decade of experience of Lithuania as an EU member and the influence of the latest European crisis. Lithuania’s strategies with regard to the following issues are relevant to Ukraine’s European integration aspirations: the migration crisis in the EU, in terms of overcoming it through a “relocation plan;” and the integration of the national minorities of Lithuania, including the Roma minority, into the country’s civil society. Furthermore, some of Lithuania’s efforts actively support Ukraine’s European integration aspirations, such as the attempt to model how current problems can be predicted and resolved by Ukraine if it acquires EU membership, on the basis of Lithuania’s experience, which has relevance for Ukraine due to the fact that Lithuania and Ukraine – along Poland and other countries – inherited the Soviet system of government, and because of their similar mentality and current bilateral relations. After the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, and the subsequent EU migration crisis in 2015, Lithuania reviewed its national policy priorities taking into account that its state boundary is the part of the EU boundary, without any “buffer zone.”","PeriodicalId":52588,"journal":{"name":"Przeglad Politologiczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47969511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How the internet has influenced political campaigns in the United States in the 20th century","authors":"Norbert Tomaszewski","doi":"10.14746/pp.2019.24.4.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/pp.2019.24.4.10","url":null,"abstract":"Modern political campaigns in the United States need to combine the use of traditional and new media in order to let the candidate win. The emergement of social media allowed the campaign staffs to create a bond with the voter, through sharing and evaluating the content uploaded by the candidate. Nowadays, with the help of the internet, candidate is able to spend less time and money on the campaign, while interacting with a much bigger number of followers. The internet, however, is a rather new invention and only in the 21st century more than 50% of Americans started to use it on a daily basis. The study aims at determining how did the presidential candidates in the United States try to attract the voter with the help of the World Wide Web – what is more, it’s goal is to answer what kind of voter used the internet back in the 20th century and what kind of candidate would have the biggest chance to attract him.","PeriodicalId":52588,"journal":{"name":"Przeglad Politologiczny","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67378157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media Scandals as Fake News is Dangerous for the National Security","authors":"B. Angelova-Igova","doi":"10.14746/pp.2019.24.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/pp.2019.24.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"In a Requiem for Media Jean Baudrillard described the civil war in Timisoara, Romania, in 1989. He discovered that the war was to a large extent instigated by the mass media. Nowadays, the media have the possibility to decontextualize events and objectify them by placing them in a different context, alongside other decontextualized events. This could be very dangerous and lead to serious national security problems. Media could provoke social turbulence and “real” crimes. My aim in this paper is to describe this problem and show possible solutions. While following the methodology adopted, I examine case studies and analyze specific historical events.","PeriodicalId":52588,"journal":{"name":"Przeglad Politologiczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46993699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brexit and the effects on Germany from an economic and social perspective","authors":"M. Bartkowiak, Anna Ratajczak","doi":"10.14746/pp.2019.24.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14746/pp.2019.24.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"Pod koniec marca 2017 r., rząd brytyjski zainicjował procedurę prawną dotyczącą wystąpienia z Unii Europejskiej, rozpoczynając tym samym dwuletnie odliczanie do Brexitu. Jednakże, biorąc pod uwagę stan na sierpień 2019 r., ostateczny wynik negocjacji, jest nadal w toku. Niepewność wywołana przez Brexit w ciągu ostatnich lat wpływała negatywnie na gospodarkę Wielkiej Brytanii, np. wzrost gospodarczy. Niniejsza praca ukazuje wpływ Brexitu na Niemcy z uwzględnieniem perspektywy ekonomicznej i społecznej. W naszych analizach rozróżniamy między efektami po ogłoszeniu Brexitu, a jego możliwymi skutkami. Uwzględniając perspektywę ekonomiczną, nasze analizy koncentrują się na czterech swobodach rynku wewnętrznego Unii Europejskiej. W perspektywie społecznej, nasze analizy skupiają się na mobilności, studiach i praktykach w Wielkiej Brytanii, transakcjach finansowych oraz prawach konsumentów. Za pomocą statystyk opisowych, bazując głównie na danych z Destatis i Eurostatu, przewidujemy następujące konsekwencje. Biorąc pod uwagę perspektywę ekonomiczną, spodziewamy się negatywnych następstw, takich jak pogorszenie relacji handlowych między Wielką Brytanią a Niemcami, wpływających na zatrudnienie, w szczególności w sektorze motoryzacyjnym. Uwzględniając perspektywę społeczną, spodziewamy się także negatywnych konsekwencji, np. wynikających z podróżowania do Wielkiej Brytanii: rosnących kosztów podróży, opłat roamingowych, dodatkowego ubezpieczenia zdrowotnego. Wśród pozostałych obszarów, na które może wpływać Brexit wskazać należy studia i praktyki w Wielkiej Brytanii, transakcje finansowe oraz prawa konsumentów.","PeriodicalId":52588,"journal":{"name":"Przeglad Politologiczny","volume":"473 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67377547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}