Confidence in the Political Elite in Poland. Heritage and the Present

Abstract

Article deals with the historical and exogenous causes of low confidence in the political elite in Poland. Author argues that the most important factors determining that state are: a) shifted in time relative to Western Europe, individualization process, which creates the so-called civic culture; b) semi-peripheral position of Poland on the world-systems map, resulting in a meager the Gesellschaft social bond in the past, and implying the necessity to adapt to the requirements of the global economy-capital, in the present; c) Western world's current trend which consist in unsubscribing from all kinds of political communities as a result of the processes of post-politics, mediatization and scandalization in politics. Exegesis of the above elements constituting the main content of the article is supported by the argument that the circulation of political power between the main actors of the national scenes, and occasionally emerging democratic parties intervening cycle of convergence, it is not crucial for public confidence towards these entities. Author argues that any kind of policy does not radically and rapidly reevaluate the general lack of confidence in the political elite.