Books in the Studies in Politics, Security and Society series

The structure of the book is unconventional. The issues presented are extremely contextual, subject to an ongoing discussion. From the scientific point of view, the territorial differentiation in the traditional uniform of the Nation-State is simply reconfigured and reshaped due to the new logic new logic of internal market competition.

The book discusses the issue of the correlation between social capital and political participation. The reader is given an extensive overview of the social capital term as well as the conventional and unconventional political participation terms including the historical conceptualization of the paradigm as well as its modern interpretations.

The rapid decline of Europe's international position threatens the appearance of a new and bipolar global arrangement together with the marginalisation of Europe. The author carefully analyses the causes of the EU's failure in pursuing the role of European representative, Europe thereby pretending to the role of one of three world powers.

The book draws attention to the manifestation of the totalitarian regime in Slovakia during World War II on the lower level of state administration. It shows how the decisions of the central government influenced the lives of ordinary citizens in their political, economic, social, and cultural life as well as in their leisure time possibilities.

This book is a response to the need for scientific research on one of the components of quality of democracy, id est accountability. The author analyses thoroughly in cross-section the accountability mechanisms in Poland and Spain.

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive analysis of the political systems of post-Yugoslav states, focusing on the following aspects: the evolution of the political system, the constitution and basic principles of the political system, the parliament, the head of state, the government, the judiciary, and the system of political parties.

The author analyses competition as one of four coordinating mechanisms helping agents mutually to orientate their actions, avoid chaos, and produce social order. He also evaluates the theory of competition to explore such topics as corporate social responsibility, relations between government, and reflexivity in social sciences.

The book is devoted to the issue of public administration discretionary power within law application processes and its control. It presents a variety of factors that may affect the range of discretion as well as the influence on public administration's reasoning.

This book analyzes the controversy between imperialism associated with capitalist development. The author evaluates contemporary theories concerning the essence of this relationship. On that basis, he reconstructs his own view on capitalist imperialism.

The book analyses organizational disengagement and its unwanted consequences at an organizational and at individual level. The author argues for the existence of an additional dimension of employee disengagement. The author analyses how people frame their decisions of staying or leaving organizations by defining their employment situation.

This book addresses the issues of radicalism and terrorism. Each of the two phenomena are analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book contains articles which explore legal, political, psychological, economic and social aspects of radicalism and terrorism.

The book shows not only the causes and consequences of the occurrence of the organizational pathologies, but also a unique model of combating corruption - the bribe buyer behavior model. The book provides a methodology of diagnosing the susceptibility of an organization and its staff to corruption and fraud.

This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker's methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the UK.

This book analyses how contemporary political science can develop as a structure of knowledge gathered by the individual sub-disciplines of political studies, as well as the remaining disciplines of social sciences. This work presents a strategy of integrating knowledge about man and society.

The book analyzes the theoretical and practical aspects of civil service in Polish public administration and discusses it in a European context. The civil service is explored from a comparative, historical and systemic perspective.

This book analyzes political representation, treating it both as a political idea and a principle of law. It describes the main themes and characters of the debate on political representation from the early 19th century to the present, when once again it is a pressing topic resulting from the "crisis in democracy" witnessed in the new century.

The Islamic World comprises territories of Muslim states throughout the world. This area faces a lot of dilemmas regarding ethnic and religious conflicts as well as political and economic instability. The authors address the topic from the perspective of international security, foreign policy, economic and energy policy as well as regional studies.

This book is the outcome of in-depth academic research on the civil service carried out by acknowledged international (B.G. Peters, Ch. Demmke) and national experts in the field. The goal is to summarise the studies on the transformations in the civil service systems in European and other countries, with a special focus on civil service in Poland.

The purpose of this book is to encourage the use and exploration of imagination, intuition and insight as essential ingredients for scientific, educational and civic endeavors. This groundbreaking book is a kind of intellectual provocation, but also an antidote for our current crises in education.

The aim of the book is to analyze the perception of the Tsarist and Bolshevik Russia in the Polish political thought in the 19th and 20th century. The wide and well-documented research applied an original multidisciplinary approach, combining the methods used in many disciplines, such as history, social science and social psychology.

In this volume Alojzy Z. Nowak presents articles by different authors who analyse the impact of the current crisis in the financialisation of the world economy. The contributions also discuss the ethical failures of the financial crisis in Europe and whether continued convergence is the answer to the Euro area crisis.

This book presents the most important problems in post-World War II Polish-Italian relations. Main issues are the Peace Treaty with Italy; the issue of Trieste; and Upper Adige; the Italian position regarding the Oder-Neisse Border; economic, trade, and finance relations; culture; and scholarship.

The book is the first study in the world to deal with the subject of the rebellion of the Chernobyl liquidators, as well as a broad attempt to present this issue from the point of view of the liquidators themselves within the framework of oral history.

The book analyzes historical and contemporary relations between Poland and Mexico. It includes their political, economic and cultural dimensions, as well as the role of Polish migration to Mexico. The timeframe of the work is from the begining of first direct contacts between the states till 2017 and the announcement of the strategic partnership

The authors include elements of social network analysis into the classical neo-institutional theories of the government coalition formation process. They verify the benefits and accuracy of this modified analytical model in the analysis of three deviant cases of coalition formation: in Canada (2008), Great Britain (2010) and New Zealand (2017).

The book is devoted to relations between the ethnic diversity and the quality of governance at the local level. Opolskie province in Poland is a case for explaining this interdependence. Authors assumed, that the quality of governance would be higher in communes characterized by ethnic diversity.

The book analyses contemporary relations between Poland and Ukraine. It discusses the history and determinants of their bilateral relations, presents political, economic, social and military relations between the two countries and focuses on some specific issues, such as historical memory, the Polish-Ukrainian border and relations with the EU.

This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as relations between the leader (human agency) and followers (sociological environment). In this sense, leadership comprises mutual influences between personal and structural domain.

The book is an attempt at assessing the importance of three economic areas IN creating power in international relations: energy sector, internationalization of currency and technologies with a military significance, which might potentially be "a fuel for dominance" and the instrument to gain geopolitical advantages.