Description: Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland, Hardcover by Grabowski, Tomek, ISBN 1648250599, ISBN-13 9781648250590, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "This book investigates the long-term preconditions of lasting and successful democratization. It counters conventional wisdom that they are a matter of proper institutional design, or that the political culture of democracy is a by-product of modernizing economic change. Instead, it argues that achieving lasting democracy is difficult without a prior breakthrough to individualism: a system of beliefs centered on the belief in one's inner worth and in one's inner capacity for judgment. The rise of an individualist belief system that is widely proliferated in society requires social conditions that are in turn hard to meet, including a widespread breakdown of traditional culture, a frontier experience, and a process of civic nation building. Th's empirical focus, Poland, demonstrates the logic of the individuation process in a condensed form. Poland's road to individualism (and with it, to democracy) consisted of a catastrophic uprooting of broad segments of society in the aftermath of World War II,the rise of a frontier environment in the Western Territories acquired from Germany, and an unlikely emergence of the Catholic Church as a civic nation-builder in these Territories in the 1960s and the 1970s. However, the Polish case is not unique, and th offers an analytical approach that could successfully be brought to bear on other cases of democratization, both past and present"--
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Book Title: Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland
Number of Pages: 378 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Subject: World / European, Political, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Europe / Poland
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Political Science, History
Author: Tomek Grabowski
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe Ser.
Format: Hardcover