Awareness of the Political Elite

This book describes the Polish society of systemic transformation after the assumption of power in 2015 by the political group of Prime Minister Jaros¿aw Kaczy¿ski, Law and Justice. Jaros¿aw Kaczy¿ski began building an illiberal democracy in Poland, following the example of Prime Minister Victor Orbán in Hungary. The American sociologist Kim Lane Scheppele called such states the Frankenstate , i.e. a state created on the foundation of concepts existing in various democratic systems, but assembled into an undemocratic whole. Poland is moving towards the political solutions that are already present in Hungary, and the moment when Poland finds itself is best characterized by one of the sociological interviews I conducted with Polish parliamentarians for the purposes of this book. The Law and Justice MP said: To stop the civic exclusion of youth, take over the media and fill it with the right journalists and make sure they don't "talk nonsense". These journalists should make people feel proud that we are Poles, that we are a big family together.