by Julianna Rossi | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago
Poland’s media problem began with President Andrzej Duda’s election in 2015. He started with blatant attempts to control the commanding heights of the media, especially public television. Duda accomplished this by directly controlling messages published on TV...
by Tad Montesano | Oct 21, 2020 | Williams College
Since 2015, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party has engaged in a systematic effort to remake their courts in the name of unrooting corruption and promoting the people’s interest. Many countries claim to use judiciary reform to stabilize democracy. In the...
by Wawrzyniec Muszynski-Sulima | Oct 19, 2020 | University of Chicago
On June 13th 2020, the incumbent Andrzej Duda secured another 5 years in office as the president of the Republic of Poland. After a fierce battle and with a mere 400 thousand votes of advantage, he beat Warsaw’s mayor Rafał Trzaskowski in the presidential...
by Alperen Sen | May 28, 2020 | Koç University
A lot of emphasis has been made on the anti-democratic agenda of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) government in Poland [1]. Head of Poland Supreme Court says the country is moving towards an authoritarian state [2]. Poland is recently encountered with the PiS...
by Peter Fedyk | May 15, 2020 | Georgia State University
Poland’s Law and Justice party has infamously peeled back layers of democracy year by year since their surprise majority win in 2015. Using their control of both houses of the legislative branch, the party have made unprecedented moves against the independence of the...
