Paternalizm i klientelizm w Polsce Ludowej. Na przykładzie dystrybucji samochodów

• Authors: Jastrząb Mariusz

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Paternalism and clientelism in the Polish People’s Republic. Car distribution as a case study

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The article is based on applications for the allocation of bones for cars that were sent in the years 1977–1980 to the President of the Council of Ministers, Janusz Wieczorek. The author of the article analyses the background of the applicants, the arguments that they used and the language of their applications. He poses a thesis that the form of the applications and the way they were considered show the paternalistic nature of the government in the Polish People’s Republic at the time of Gierek. The author also points out that the completely discretionary character of the decision on the price allocations of luxurious goods, such as cars, caused that people of high standing could take advantage of their access to such goods to build a network of cliental connections.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
• Journal: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Politologica
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 77-97

Contributors

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Jastrząb Mariusz

• Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego w Warszawie

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Notes

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Mariusz Jastrząb adiunkt w Katedrze Nauk Społecznych Akademii Leona Koźmińskiego w Warszawie. Publikował prace dotyczące funkcjonowania aparatu partyjnego i polityki gospodarczej w okresie stalinowskim oraz u schyłku PRL. Aktualnie prowadzi badania na temat społecznych aspektów rozwoju motoryzacji w Polsce Ludowej.