Continuities in Poland's Permanent Transition

This text examines change in post-1989 Poland by linking it analytically to the continuity of Poland's past. It argues that the first reality of objective institutional change is underpinned by the continuity of second realities. Based on an interdisciplinary analysis of the Polish case, this study proposes a new conceptual framework for the study of transitional societies and revises standard assumptions in transitology and democratization studies.