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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

Influence of the interrelations between power and opposition on democracy in Poland. Selected aspects

2021, 2021, No. 3

Tetyana Nagornyak

0000-0002-6416-5774

Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University (Donetsk, Ukraine)

Vasyl Buslenko

0000-0001-8280-7104

Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University (Lutsk, Ukraine)

DOI

10.31338/1641-2478pe.3.21.11

Publication date

25.11.2021

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

Field

Social sciences

Discipline

international relations, economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology

Language of publication

English, Polish

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Abstract

This article substantiates theoretical and methodological approaches regarding the impact of the power–opposition interrelations on the strengthening and weakening of democracy. Based on the analysis of a number of indicators and modern political process in Poland, it has been established that democratisation takes place against the backdrop of the permanent formation and preservation of two opposed poles in the political space. Deflection from democracy increases the distance between two competing/conflicting parties – pro-government and opposition. This situation automatically accumulates the potential of pole's force. Therefore, the interrelations between the power and the opposition turn into the force of stratification and equalisation that allows reducing the "democracy deficit" and bring the political system into the state of equilibrium

Keywords:

Poland,power,opposition,political parties,social capital. democracy,democracy deficit

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