| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Front matter -- title page -- copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Urszula Chowaniec -- Acknowledgments -- How to Read the Book -- Part I: A Personal Voice -- Chapter 1: Mr. Kaczyński, The Guardian and Me -- Chapter 2: At Her Majesty's Service! -- Part II: An Academic Voice -- Chapter 3: Modern Poland's Political Blocs -- Chapter 4: Post-Post-Colonial? -- Chapter 5: The Confused Hopes of "Civil Society" -- Chapter 6: Class Struggles -- Chapter 7: An Imported Middle Class -- Part III: A Reporter's Voice -- Chapter 8: Election-Year Issues -- Playing the Race Card -- When a Man Loves a Woman -- Don't Shoot the Messenger! -- Still the Economy, Stupid! -- History: War and PiS -- Brussels or Death -- Culture: Reaching for the Revolver -- Between Iraq and a Hard Place -- Part IV: A Lay Voice -- Chapter 9: Diary of British Media Coverage of the October 2019Parliamentary Election -- Part 1: Floating Frames -- Part 2: "Some Losers" -- Part 3: Post-Mortem -- Chapter 10: Hiatus-The Election that Wasn't, May 2020 -- Chapter 11: Diary of British Media Coverage of Poland's July 2020Presidential Elections -- Part 1: Britain's Media Picks its Polish Horse -- Part 2: Round Two in the Presidential Election -- Part 3: Unfinished Business -- Chapter 12: Synthesis: Finding a Voice Between the Sublimeand the Ridiculous -- Index -- Back cover |
| Analysis |
East and West, Elections, Judiciary, Media politics, Poland, Political studies, Postcommunism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
"Written by a Brit who has lived in Poland for more than twenty years, this book challenges some accepted thinking in the West about Poland and about the rise of Law and Justice (PiS) as the ruling party in 2015. It is a remarkable account of the Polish post-1989 transition and contemporary politics, combining personal views and experience with careful fact and material collections. The result is a vivid description of the events and scrupulous explanations of the political processes, and all this with an interesting twist - a perspective of a foreigner and insider at the same time. Settled in the position of participant observer, Jo Harper combines the methods of macro and micro analysis with CDA, critical discourse analysis. He presents and interprets the constituent elements and issues of contemporary Poland: the main political forces, the Church, the media, issues of gender, the Russian connection, the much-disputed judicial reform and many others. A special feature of the book is the detailed examination of the coverage of the Poland's latest two elections, one in 2019 (parliamentary) and the other in 2020 (presidential) in the British media, an insightful and witty specimen of comparative cultural and political analysis"--Provided by publisher |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2021) |
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Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Political party)
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| SUBJECT |
Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Political party) fast |
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Political culture -- Poland
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Poland
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Discourse analysis -- Political aspects -- Poland
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
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Political culture
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Politics and government
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects
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Poland -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001713
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| Subject |
Poland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020052463 |
| ISBN |
9633863961 |
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9789633863961 |
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