Mainstream Parties in Crisis: Introduction

A change in the shape of partisan competition, and the traditional parties’ ability to adapt to it, has led to the decline of once-pervasive clientelism.

Once the poster child for successful postcommunist transitions to democracy, Poland is now governed by populist nationalists. What happened?

Contra Ben Margulies, one can clearly mark the boundaries that separate antidemocrats from democrats (nativists included), and nativists from populists.