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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Party Patronage in Poland : The Democratic Left Alliance and Law and Justice Compared
:
The Democratic Left Alliance and Law and Justice Compared
Beteiligte:
Gwiazda, Anna
Erschienen:
SAGE Publications, 2008
Erschienen in:
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 22 (2008) 4, Seite 802-827
Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Patronage is central to Polish party politics. The power of a governing party to appoint its supporters to positions in public and semi-public spheres will be examined in this paper. The two governments under investigation are: the center—left coalition government of the Democratic Left Alliance, the Labour Union, and the Polish Peasant Party formed in October 2001 and the center—right minority government of the Law and Justice party formed in October 2005. A significant extent of party patronage was expected in the case of the Democratic Left Alliance, which confirmed a dominant party thesis. However, in the case of Law and Justice, party patronage was expected to be hindered by party competition. This has not been the case, which challenges two arguments put forward by Grzymała-Busse that the dispersion of parliamentary power constrains party patronage and that in Poland the general pattern is that of decreasing rent-seeking.</jats:p>