The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland : : strategic misperceptions and unanticipated outcomes / / Hayden, Jacqueline.

Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989. It sets out the sequence of events, and examines the strategies of the various political groupings prior to the partially...

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Place / Publishing House:London, United Kingdom : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (178 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Explaining change: the paucity of the agency-structure debate
  • 3 Explaining the collapse of communism in Poland
  • 4 PZPR strategic goals: expectation and outcome
  • 5 Strategies and outcomes: part 1 institutional choices of the PZPR
  • 6 Strategies and outcomes: part 2 the PZPR's choice of electoral system and voting formulae
  • 7 The election campaign
  • 8 Discussion and conclusion.