The Backdrop of Polish Democracy
Citizen versus System
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| Title: | The Backdrop of Polish Democracy. Citizen versus System. |
| Author: | Jan Kuban |
| Category: | Political sciences |
| Key words: | Poland, Politics, Democracy, Politicians, Political system, Direct democracy, Elections |
| Publication date: | 2019, September |
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978-1-5136-4674-9 |
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| Pages: | 135 |
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| Phone Number | +48 22 646 74 24 |
Description
A specialist in biocybernetics, investigating social processes, an uncorrupted and ideological politician and an international political scientist made contact and decided to write a book together under a very intriguing title: "The Backdrop of Polish Democracy. Citizen versus System." The book was published in September 2019 by QBS Publishing House.
Why is this book so important to read? Are the authors a sufficient recommendation to buy and read it? How do they, a group of well-known authors, see the political decision-making process in Poland and Polish Democracy as a whole? Did they propose a model for a better Poland? Is their constructive criticism truly justified and well-founded?
Each of the co-authors writes about what is most important to them and tries to define the roots of today's dysfunctionality of Polish democracy. They discuss what directed Polish politics after 1989 and how it affected how it is seen today. Is it only the fault of the collective imagination of politicians, or is it their inability to face difficult tasks?
Are we able - as a civil society - to go beyond the existing visions of development and imagine who we want to be and how our country could look in the near future? How to create a real democracy without turning everything upside-down? What assumptions in politics should be rethought and what language should be used?
The book is not only a critique of the existing political system in Poland, but also, and perhaps above all, an invitation to reflect on how to get out of the current political clinch and hypocrisy.
What is so special in "The Backdrop of Polish Democracy”?
The greatest advantage is the unplanned convergence of the views of the co-authors. They met by chance, and decided to publish a book together, which is a must-read book for every Pole who is concerned with the good of our country. Every Pole, regardless of their views.
In principle, each of the authors wrote something different, but all of them led to the same conclusion: the present situation cannot go on, because sooner or later it will lead the country into catastrophe.
Selling Points
Endorsements
"The Backdrop of Polish Democracy" is the first book known to me which
[Jarek Szczepanik - author of “Mathematical Foundations of Life”]
About the author
Jan Kuban (born 1959) – a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Aeronautical Engineering, biocybernetics scientist, climber, alpine instructor, activist for direct democracy, polyglot, coach of young entrepreneurs, creator of information technology Q-Line, author the book “The Physics of Life”, published in 2009.
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Topics which can really entice you
- The Polish electoral system was designed by the USA.
- Also, it is a different system. Do you know why?
- The pattern of power is always the same and consists of maintaining and centralizing power, distribution and bureaucratic management, for which propaganda is created.
- Leader decides who will be placed on the electoral lists before the election campaign begins.
- Why in Iraq, Afghanistan and Poland - anywhere Uncle Sam has brought his order - did not establish the same electoral system as at home?
- All the significant political groups do not lead ideological disputes with each other, but rather just constantly struggle for power.
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Table of Contents
Core messages ................................................................... 5
Introduction ................................................................... 13
Part 1. POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN SYSTEMIC THEORY ................................... 17
Chapter 1. A man and a system .................................................. 18
1.1. Systemic solutions ..................................................... 18
1.2. The Nature of an Honest Man ............................................ 20
1.3. Natural Pressure for Social Exploitation – a socialism trap ............ 21
Chapter 2. Political systems ................................................... 24
2.1. King, shaman and people ................................................ 24
2.2. Characteristic features of people in power ............................. 25
2.3. Representative democracy in Poland ..................................... 31
Chapter 3. How to change ourselves to change the system? ....................... 42
3.1. General postulate ...................................................... 42
3.2. What intellectuals should change in themselves ......................... 44
3.3. What journalists should change in themselves ........................... 47
3.4. What teachers should change in themselves .............................. 51
3.5. What clergy should change in themselves ................................ 53
3.6. What politicians should change in themselves ........................... 54
3.7. What officials should change in themselves ............................. 55
3.8. What lawyers should change in themselves ............................... 57
3.9. What people in power should change in themselves ....................... 60
3.10. What scientists should change in themselves ........................... 64
3.11. What parents should change about themselves ........................... 65
3.12. What each of us should change in ourselves ............................ 67
Part 2. POLAND DO NOT DIE! TRY TO CURE YOURSELF! ............................... 71
Chapter 4. Polish State .........................................................72
Chapter 5. It is due to the system, not policy ................................. 74
Chapter 6. Courts - a bleeding wound on the body of Poland ..................... 78
Chapter 7. How to repair the courts? .......................................... 83
Chapter 8. A judge - the most important of lawyers ............................. 86
Chapter 9. Polish parliament unable to pass reforms ............................ 91
Chapter 10. Obedience and apparent debate ...................................... 94
Chapter 11. Caricature of the Polish parliament, caricature of democracy ....... 97
Chapter 12. The source of illness - anti-democratic electoral system ........... 99
Chapter 13. Does Polish Electoral law violate civil rights? ................... 101
Chapter 14. How Polish Electoral law violates civil rights .................... 102
14.1. Legal exclusion of the possibility of an individual standing for
Polish parliament .................................................... 103
14.2. Legal dependence on exercising passive voting rights from the
arbitrary will of the party leadership or of the organization
leadership forming an election committee ............................. 104
14.3. Sociological privileges for top places on the voting lists as an effect
of legal solutions of the Electoral Code. Breach of the
principle of equality, the directness and universality of elections .. 106
14.4. Violation of equality and proportionality by exceeding the requirement
threshold of 5% of votes obtained throughout the country ............. 107
14.5. Violation of the principle of directness by calculating the election
results .............................................................. 109
Chapter 15. How to repair the electoral system? ............................... 111
Part 3. THE CONCEPT OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN POLAND ............................. 119
Chapter 16. The Swiss phenomenon as an example for Poland? .................... 120
Chapter 17. Need of change? ................................................... 128
Chapter 18. The responsibility of Polish politicians .......................... 135
Chapter 19. Democracy, but which one? ......................................... 138
Chapter 20. Why direct democracy? ............................................. 142
Chapter 21. Referendum ........................................................ 145
Chapter 22. Citizens initiative ............................................... 154
Chapter 23. Citizens veto ..................................................... 162
Chapter 24. Changing the balance of power in the Polish political system ...... 169
AFTERWORD ..................................................................... 173
APPENDIX ...................................................................... 177
Frequently Asked Questions .................................................... 179
Basic concepts ................................................................ 183
A simplified diagram of direct democracy in Poland ............................ 185
Constitution of the Republic of Poland of April 2, 1997 ....................... 186
Inability to apply individually for a deputy's seat ........................... 190
Information about the authors ................................................. 191
Library for the Governing and the Governed .................................... 197
Library of The Physics of Life ................................................ 199
Media partners ................................................................ 200