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Poland Readings - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Catholicism 'grounded it' (Solidarity) 'in a specific worldview centered around a vision of the pOlish nationa so that the moral community appears to many Poles not only as desirable but also as authentic, even natural'
      - tied the system of values it described and reinforced 'to a community that could be experienced very directly in the organization of religious rituals'
  - - - 'in sum, cultural legacies influence social action by restricting the array of possible ways in which actors can understand and thus act on their reality'
  - - - 'casting the constitutional debate as a conflict between 'us' and 'them', it became increasingly important to the AWS how the constitution defined the collectiv e'we' invoked by the AWS'
    - - 'defined as being the work of a minority and its adoption as being a danger to the project of democratization itself'
- - - - solidarity an inclusive, people's movement but no. of acotrs in pol. process 'must be limited if negotiations are to be viable'
      - 'the logic of compromise was relentlessly pushing both negotiating partners to 'soften' their images of each other'
- - - - 'democracy is the best system of government'
      - 'the most direct successor to the 'politics of truth' pursued by Solidarity when it constituted the civil society in opposition to the communist regime'
      - civic 'defines citizenship in terms of commitment to the principles of the democratic state'
      - 'Poland has a long history of republican theory and practice dating back to the eighteenth century'
    - - 'recognition that ordinary people and elites may not be yet up to the tasks required of them'
      - anti-party attitudes, belief that 'the number of parties should be limited'
    - - shares rejection of communism w others and 'moralism and cosmopolitan approach to citizenship of factor A', differs 'in its complete faith in majority rule, with no need for Civic Republicanism's self-selected political elite, or uided Democracy's political experts'
  - - - replaced by communist Aleksander Kwasniewski
      - 'Walesa conceptualized his role as standing above party politics' and dismissed parliament in 1993 but accepted results of ensuing parliamentary election
        
        'although Walsa was a grumpy bad loser, that is not the same as being authoritarian and anti-democratic'