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• W4379420612 abstract "REVIEWS i8i readerswill have compassion for Olga on account of Havel's affairs,but they will also have compassion for Havel, when a 'serious work of scholarship' plays at TheJews of theWorld while still discussing the erotic in terms of power relationships. The Vodfianska story was new to me but it contributes nothing to my understanding of Havel. Indeed, nothing in this work contributes to that understanding.The Stalinistpropaganda term 'radianttomorrows'is attributed to Havel, (p. 329); Keane's assertion that under the Habsburgs, the Czechs had become a minority in Bohemia or the Bohemian Lords (p. 34) and othermisrepresentationsare no more than irritants.What irksthe reader most perhaps is Keane's setting himself up asjudge and prophet. To be sure, when Keane was writing, Havel's popularitywas diminishing.By the time he had finished writing, however, it was more or less restored. Now (March 2000), Havel is a well-respectedpresident of whom the majorityof Czechs is proud. They do not like his forays into the constitution or his occasional impatience with elected politicians, regard him as sometimes high-handed, but cannot deny that he has done a good job. PoliticalCzechs are concerned about the choice of his successor. It is no more a 'tragedy' that Havel is approaching the end of his final term than that the president of any other country is coming to the end of hers or his. Keane's book is an experiment in mixing genres. Experimentsoften fail. School ofSlavonic andEastEuropean Studies R. B. PYNSENT Lfniversity College London Millard, Frances. PolishPoliticsandSociety. Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition. Routledge, London and New York, I999. Xiii + 232 pp. Notes. Tables. Bibliography.Index. ?55.??. IN the early post-Communist years Poland was seen as one of the more problematicnew democraciesof east-centralEurope. The earlytravailswere, however, weathered with a surprisingdegree of success. The economy took off with relativelystronggrowth rates and a trajectoryof stable recovery, the political system settled down under the stewardship of rapidly made-over Communists, and the passage of a new constitution helped calm some of the more tendentiousissuesthatarosein the constructionof an authoritativepostCommunist order. In common with some other formerCommunist states(in factthe select fewlocated in the region of east-centralEuropewhose advanced statuswas recognized by the European Union in I997) Poland clearly made rapidprogressin transformingitspolitical and economic system. Despite the already large and rapidly expanding literatureon the various aspects of democratic change, transition and consolidation we are not, however,very clearas to how deep thistransformationhas gone or the precise meaning of the changes that have taken place. Amidst the wealth of models and contrastingtheoreticalperspectivesbrought to bear on this area Frances Millard thus rightly directs attention to the prime distinction that should be drawn between procedural and substantive democracy in evaluating the nature of Poland's transformation (p. 2). The establishment of procedural I82 SEER, 79, I, 200 I democracy characteristicof a competitive regime in which the population has some choice of leaders -is certainlynot an irrelevantconsideration,nor is it an areaof change thatcan be relegatedto the superficial.Butit is stillonly one part of a much largerprocess of democratizationand neglects the critical question of the 'depth of democratic values, the extent to which they are genuinely internalized' (p. I77). This is a question to which it is very difficultto give a definite answer and one that cannot be confronted directly in straightforwardempiricalterms, but it is the issue on which the evaluation of post-Communistdemocracyreallyhinges. While thisbook is hardlyable to offer an unequivocal answer, it certainly presents a wide range of material that providesinsightsinto differentaspectsof thisfundamentalquestionand a rangeof perspectiveson criticalaspectsof Poland'stransformation. An early chapter on the 'practice of government' presents an historical overview of the post-Communist period through the different phases of dominance of Poland's nine prime ministers (ending with Solidarity'sJerzy Buzek) and its three presidents. Subsequent chapters detail the process of institution-buildingand the multipleissuesinvolvedin thepassageof the I997 Constitution, the establishment of civil liberties and the rule of law (some particularlyusefulmaterialpresentedhere), the sequence of elections and the nature of the emerging party system, as well as the attendant problems of securing adequate levels of political participationand creatinga civil society. Separatechaptersare devoted to the politicalrole of the Catholic Churchand the politics of economic and social..." @default.
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• W4379420612 title "Polish Politics and Society by Frances s> Millard (review)" @default.
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