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<p>The author explores symbolic legislation in Poland. Three instances of such legislation enacted since the 2015 general election are analysed in this essay. The author recognizes symbolic legislation of the negative type and provides specific features. She asks about the causes for such activity of the Parliament. The author has outlined the conclusion, that possible reasons may be: a deficient process of the transition to democracy, and past negative time perspective. Both reasons disturb the sustainable development of Polish society. As a possible solution, the author considers a properly functioning education system. However, this would be regulated by an act of Parliament that may be entirely symbolic as well.</p>
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The author explores symbolic legislation in Poland. Three instances of such legislation enacted since the 2015 general election are analysed in this essay. The author recognizes symbolic legislation of the negative type and provides specific features. She asks about the causes for such activity of the Parliament. The author has outlined the conclusion, that possible reasons may be: a deficient process of the transition to democracy, and past negative time perspective. Both reasons disturb the sustainable development of Polish society. As a possible solution, the author considers a properly functioning education system. However, this would be regulated by an act of Parliament that may be entirely symbolic as well.

Illiberal democracy in action: Polish kind of symbolic legislation

European Studies

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The author explores symbolic legislation in Poland. Three instances of such legislation enacted since the 2015 general election are analysed in this essay. The...

Illiberal democracy in action: Polish kind of symbolic legislation

Published Online: Apr 19, 2023

Page range: 270 - 280

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0041

Keywords
act of parliament, symbolism, symbolic legislation

© 2019 Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Illiberal democracy in action: Polish kind of symbolic legislation

Published Online: Apr 19, 2023

Page range: 270 - 280

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0041

Keywordsact of parliament, symbolism, symbolic legislation

© 2019 Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
act of parliament, symbolism, symbolic legislation