The attitude to immigrants and emerging of new political parties – the case of Poland Cover Image

Nastawienie do imigrantów a mechanizm powstawania nowych partii politycznych – przypadek Polski
The attitude to immigrants and emerging of new political parties – the case of Poland

Author(s): Maciej Marmola
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Government/Political systems, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: new parties; political parties; party system; immigration; attitude to immigrants

Summary/Abstract: The immigration is recently the most important issue influencing the fates of European Union member states. Presented article diagnoses the attitudes to immigrants arriving to EU among Polish citizens and examines how the migration crisis can affect the Polish party system according to emerging of new parties approaches. The conducted empirical research shows that majority of Polish voters are against hosting immigrants in their country. However, in contrast to the West European party systems, there is also plenty of relevant Polish parties with negative stance to immigration. Therefore, the immigration cannot be considered as a factor of party system change.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 89-104
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish