00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685954869149580223 Buklod 20241116094821.0 m |o d | ta 241017s2019 enk u eng d 9780198840503 (eBook) 20785408 DLAW DLC rda eng 342.438029 23 KKP 2101 S23 2019eb Sadurski, Wojciech 1950- author. Poland's constitutional breakdown Wojciech Sadurski. Electronic resource. Oxford Oxford University Press 2019. 1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) 24 cm. text txt rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Oxford comparative constitutionalism Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index. Afterword. Anti-constitutional populist backsliding -- Before the breakdown : 1989-2015 -- Dismantling checks and balances (I) : the remaking of the Constitutional Tribunal -- Dismantling checks and balances (II) : judges and prosecutors -- Undoing the institutions of the democratic states -- An assault on individual rights -- Why did it happen? -- Europe to the rescue -- Illiberal democracy or populist authoritarianism? -- Since 2015, Poland's populist Law and Justice Party (PiS) has been dismantling the major checks and balances of the Polish state and subordinating the courts, the civil service, and the media to the will of the executive. Political rights have been radically restricted, and the Party has captured the entire state apparatus. The speed and depth of these antidemocratic movements took many observers by surprise: until now, Poland was widely regarded as an example of a successful transitional democracy. Poland's anti-constitutional breakdown poses three questions that this book sets out to answer: What, exactly, has happened since 2015? Why did it happen? And what are the prospects for a return to liberal democracy? These answers are formulated against a backdrop of current worldwide trends towards populism, authoritarianism, and what is sometimes called 'illiberal democracy'. As this book argues, the Polish variant of 'illiberal democracy' is an oxymoron. By undermining the separation of powers, the PiS concentrates all power in its own hands, rendering any democratic accountability illusory. There is, however, no inevitability in these anti-democratic trends: this book considers a number of possible remedies and sources of hope, including intervention by the European Union. Electronic books Democracy Poland. Constitutional history Poland 21st century. Poland Politics and government 21st century. Sadurski, Wojciech, 1950- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019 Electronic version Poland's constitutional breakdown. (OCoLC)1090018671 9780191876219. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840503.001.0001 click here to access available to all UP Students University of the Philippines, College of Law FO UPD DLAW KKP 2101 S23 2019EB Electronic Resource