Polish Politics and Society

Frances Millard is Senior Lecturer in the Comparative Politics of the Visegrad States at the University of Essex. She has published widely on communist and post-communist political development.

• 1 Poland and the ‘transition to democracy’ 2 The practice of government 3 Institution-building and the constitutional settlement 4 Civil liberties and the rule of law 5 Elections and the emerging party system 6 Political participation and civil society 7 The political role of the Catholic Church 8 The politics of economic and social policy 9 Conclusion: The character of Polish democratization

'...there is much here to recommend this book to the reader interested both in Poland and processes of post-Communist change - Paul G. Lewis, Seer 79, 1, 2001