Background to crisis : policy and politics in Gierek Pland

List of Tables and Figures ix

Preface xi

The Contributors xv

PART 1

INTRODUCTION

1 Policy and Politics in Gierek's Poland Adam Bromke 3

PART 2

THE PARTY INSTITUTIONS PARTICIPATION AND THE POLICY PROCESS

2 The Sejm as Symbol Recent Polish Attitudes Toward Political Participation Sarah Meiklejohn Terry 27

3 Subnational Policy in Poland The Dilemma Of Vertical Versus Horizontal Integration Daniel N Nelson 65

4 Recruitment Policy Elite Integration and Political Stability in People's Poland Jack Bielasiak 95

PART 3

GROUP ACTIVITY AND ATTITUDES THEIR IMPACT ON POLICY

5 Polish Student Attitudes and Ideological Policy Maurice D Simon 137

6 Polish Journalists in the Policy Making Process Jane Leftwich Curry 177

7 Citizen Voluntary Associations and the Policy Process Christine M Sadowski 199

8 The Polish Military and the Policy Process Dale R Her spring 221

9 Church and State in Gierek's Poland Vincent Chrupinski 239

PART 4

ISSUES IN ECONOMIC AND FOREIGN POLICY

10 Victim or Villain Polish Agriculture Since 1970 Andrzej Korbonski 271

11 Growth Reform and Inflation Problems and Policies John P Farrell 299

12 Policy Alternatives in Polish Foreign Economic Relations Zbigniew M Fallenbuchl 329

13 Poland the Socialist Community and East West Relations Roger E Kanet 371

PART 5

CONCLUSION

14 Poland Enters the Eighties Maurice D Simon 405