Polish Sociological Review

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Politics and Institutions in the Reform of Health Care in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

M. Sitek

Polish Sociological Review > 2008 > 1(161) > 39-53

The article discusses main developments in the organization and financing of health care in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. These countries exemplify different approaches to health care reform and different processes of institutional change of health care systems. The article charts main policy developments and offers explanation of dynamics of changes. It emphasizes the role of politics and...

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Internalization of Social Movements in the Czech Republic: The Case of Anti-Temelin Campaign

O. Cisar

Polish Sociological Review > 2008 > 1(161) > 89-102

The article analyzes different types of coalition formations that were established and hoped to be established during the transnationally coordinated campaign against the second Czech nuclear power plant in Temelin. The case study concentrates on the role the EU played in the campaign. Due to the ongoing accession process, the opponents of the power plant viewed this process as a unique opportunity...

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Weak Civic Engagement? Post-Communist Participation and Democratic Consolidation

D. Pietrzyk-Reeves

Polish Sociological Review > 2008 > 1(161) > 73-87

The aim of this article is to analyze the problem of civic and political participation in the post-communist context from the perspective of contemporary democratic theory, the concept of democratic consolidation, and the thesis of the 'weakness of civil society in post-communist countries'. It argues that the institutional approach to democratization and participation does not provide a full answer...

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Invisible Risk. The Social Construction of Security

P. Stankiewicz

Polish Sociological Review > 2008 > 1(161) > 55-72

Several empirical studies of the social construction of risk have been conducted within the risk study paradigm but little attention has been paid so far to the flip side of this process, i.e., exclusion of risk from social consciousness by deliberately or involuntarily rendering it invisible, disregarding or marginalising it. This article, based on the concept of risk proposed by Ulrich Beck, Mary...

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The Struggle with Time in Chronic Illness

A. Ostrowska

Polish Sociological Review > 2008 > 1(161) > 25-37

It is worth looking at chronic illness with its pain, suffering and increasing limitations from the perspective of time. By time we mean subjective time relating to the perception and dynamics of the malady in the patient's impressions and the role which time plays in the structuring of the patient's life and experience. The main focus of this article is the experience of progressive kidney failure...

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The Four Faces of Human Suffering in the Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman - Continuity and Change

M. H. Jacobsen, S. Marshman

Polish Sociological Review > 2008 > 1(161) > 3-24

In this piece, the authors detect and delineate an often neglected core concern within the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman - social suffering. They trace this concern with suffering from the early year writing within a Marxist framework focusing on the working class through middle periods concerned with the Holocaust, Jews, strangers and the Other to the later years and the preoccupation with the victims...

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Incumbents, Post-Communists and Local Welfare: Disentangling the Aggregate-Level Economic Voting Regularities in 2002 and 2006 City Presidential Elections in Poland

M. A. Gorecki

Polish Sociological Review > 2008 > 1(161) > 103-117

In this paper, the author examines the patterns of economic voting in 2002 and 2006 city president elections in largest Polish cities. He draws on the conceptual distinction between 'conventional' and 'transitional' economic voting. While the former concept stresses a general positive link between economic welfare and the results gained by incumbents, the latter, developed in course of studies on...

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CAMPAIGN AGAINST TEMELIN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (1)
CHRONIC DISEASE (1)
CITY PRESIDENT ELECTIONS IN POLAND (1)
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CONVENTIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL VOTING (1)
DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION (1)
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DIALYSIS (1)
DISEASE'S TRAJECTORY (1)
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HEALTH CARE REFORM (CZECH REPUBLIC (1)
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POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES (1)
RISK ASSESSMENT MECHANISMS (1)
RISK'S SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION (1)
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Polish Sociological Review

Politics and Institutions in the Reform of Health Care in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Internalization of Social Movements in the Czech Republic: The Case of Anti-Temelin Campaign

Weak Civic Engagement? Post-Communist Participation and Democratic Consolidation

Invisible Risk. The Social Construction of Security

The Struggle with Time in Chronic Illness

The Four Faces of Human Suffering in the Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman - Continuity and Change

Incumbents, Post-Communists and Local Welfare: Disentangling the Aggregate-Level Economic Voting Regularities in 2002 and 2006 City Presidential Elections in Poland

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