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Wpływ kompetencji obywatelskich na poziom konsolidacji demokracji w Polsce
The influence of the civil competences on the level of the democracy consolidation in Poland

Author(s): Danuta Karnowska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Political culture; the civil competences; democracy; civil participation; democratic values; confidence; the consolidation of democracy.

Summary/Abstract: The civil competences may have a great influence on the level of the democracy consolidation. They are a mark of knowledge about the democracy, understanding the democracy mechanisms and also the trust to its institutions. This way of understanding the civil competences (especially for the participating kind of political culture) seem to be not enough developed in Poland, what is proved by the results of carried out and shown research. Also the idea of the necessity of the occurrence of civil competences, understood as the compulsion for the participating kind of political culture to work, might be exaggerated, because not always the knowledge about the democracy and its mechanisms and its institutions, must be connected with the civil activity.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 27-46
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish
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