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Emergence of parties and party systems in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism, in comparison with the emergence of parties and party systems in Western Europe, was different in at least two ways. First, they were forming up in the time of crisis of political parties in general. Western political parties, as Martin Seymour Lipset and Stein Rokkan indicated were a result of sociolopolitical cleavages (Lipset, Rokkan 1967), which enabled them to formulate their programmes and define their electorates. However, since the late 1960’ there have been many changes, due to new socio-political context. Relations between parties and their electorates started to diminish as a result of new sociopolitical differences and the parties themselves started to look for new supporters (tried, with the help of media, to become catch all parties). Parallel to this, ideologies stopped playing the main, defining role in the process of voting for the party. But still, as Lipset claims in an article describing party systems in postcommunist Europe, parties must have steady voter alignments based on sociopolitical divisions in order to successfully take part in consecutive general elections, until then they are unstable.
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Members of political parties perform different functions within and for their organizations. Political parties impose upon their members certain tasks and expect them to fulfil them for the common good of the party. The members at the same time have their own image of what do the parties expect of them, but they also have their own expectations towards the parties. The problem I raise in this article is the concurrence of these mutual expectations and activities: (1) perceptions of the tasks the party impose on the members, (2) actual tasks that are performed by the members, and finally their (3) expectations of what forms of activities they would like to undertake within and for their parties. The research was conducted among the members of: the Law and Justice (PiS), the Civic Platform (PO), the Modern (.N), the Polish People’s Party (PSL), the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the Party Together (Razem). Members of these parties filled in questionnaires. As the result of the research it can be stated that the perception of the party expectations towards the members and the tasks they actually fulfil are considerably diverged from the activities they would like to perform. Most of all, the given and performed tasks do not satisfy their ambitions as to be the subjects of the party’s activities and decisions, but only individuals who perform instrumental and legitimising functions for their organizations.
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Działania członków partii politycznych w interesie ich macierzystych organizacji należą do ich najważniejszych funkcji. Z jednej strony partie nakładają na członków określone zadania i oczekują ich wypełnienia. Z drugiej strony członkowie będąc uczestnikami życia partyjnego mają swoje wyobrażenia na temat tego czego partie od nich oczekują oraz mają swoje oczekiwania wobec partii. Problem, który stawiam w tym artykule dotyczy zbieżności między: 1) postrzeganiem zadań stawianych członkom przez ich partie, 2) zadaniami rzeczywiście przez nich wykonywanymi oraz 3) oczekiwaniami żywionymi przez nich wobec partii odnośnie wypełnianych w partiach funkcji. Badaniem zostali objęci członkowie polskich partii politycznych: Prawa i Sprawiedliwości, Platformy Obywatelskiej, Nowoczesnej, Polskiego Stronnictwa Ludowego, Sojuszu Lewicy Demokratycznej i Partii Razem, którzy odpowiadali na pytania zawarte w kwestionariuszach ankiet. W wyniku badania ustalono, że postrzeganie oczekiwań partii oraz wykonywane rzeczywiście zadania na rzecz swoich ugrupowań rozmijają się z oczekiwaniami członków. Przede wszystkim nie zaspokajają one ich ambicji bycia podmiotami działań partyjnych, wpływającymi na podejmowane decyzje, a nie tylko jednostkami wykonującymi zadania instrumentalne oraz legitymizacyjne na rzecz swoich ugrupowań.
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Autorka podejmuje próbę przedstawienia analitycznych ram dla badania generalnych przyczyn upadku partii politycznych w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej. Przyczyny upadku partii podzielone są na te związane bezpośrednio ze zjawiskiem instytucjonalizacji partii, które są w dużym stopniu zależne od ugrupowania, na przyczyny zewnętrzne niezależne od partii.
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An analytical Framework to identify the general causes of party decline and collapse in Eastern and Central Europe is developed in this article. The causes of a parties failure are divided into those connected with its institutionalization (internal and external) and those independent of the party.
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Research report „Political Behavior of the People of Toruń” is a part of a research project „People of Toruń on Politics”. The aim of the project was to learn about opinions, interest in politics and political activity, including electoral behavior of people who live in Toruń. The sample was composed of 350 people who filled in questionnaires. The results show that young people (up to 24) are less interested in politics then the older cohorts, that the main source of political knowledge are: TV and the Internet, and that the people who live in Toruń are not very engaged in political activities except voting. Not many of them are members of political parties or other political organizations; they rarely take part in political manifestations or marches. Analysis of electoral behavior of the sample suggests that the Civic Platform is loosing its popularity and the new parties, which emerged during the last electoral campaign, are popular mostly among the youngest.
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