Background To Crisis

Maurice D. Simon is an assistant professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has been conducting research on the attitudes of Polish youth and political change in Poland. Roger E. Kanet is a professor of political science and a member of the Russian and East European Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He is author or editor of numerous publications on the foreign policies of the Soviet Union and East European countries. All of the contributors to this volume lived in or visited Poland during the 1970s.

• Part 1: Introduction 1. Policy and Politics in Gierek's Poland Part 2: The Party, Institutions, Participation, and the Policy Process 2. The Sejm as Symbol: Recent Polish Attitudes Toward Political Participation 3. Subnational Policy in Poland: The Dilemma of Vertical Versus Horizontal Integration 4. Recruitment Policy, Elite Integration, and Political Stability in People's Poland Part 3: Group Activity and Attitudes: Their Impact on Policy 5. Polish Student Attitudes and Ideological Policy 6. Polish Journalists in the Policy-Making Process 7. Citizen, Voluntary Associations, and the Policy Process 8. The Polish Military and the Policy Process 9. Church and State in Gierek's Poland Part 4: Issues in Economic and Foreign Policy 10. Victim or Villain: Polish Agriculture Since 1970 11. Growth, Reform, and Inflation: Problems and Policies 12. Policy Alternatives in Polish Foreign Economic Relations 13. Poland, the Socialist Community, and East-West Relations Part 5: Conclusion 14. Poland Enters the Eighties