Poland’s Emerging Party System

Issue Date April 1998
Volume 9
Issue 2
Page Numbers 122-33
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About the Author

Aleksander Smolar is senior research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and chairman of the board of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw. He served as a political advisor to Polish prime ministers Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Hanna Suchocka.

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