Challenges to Representative Democracy

Robert Wiszniowski is Professor at the University of Wrocław (Poland), President of the Association for Civic Education in Wrocław, Vice President of the Polish Association of Political Marketing and longtime member of the Polish Association of Political Science.

Contents: Jerzy Juchnowski/Jan R. Sielezin: Ancient and medieval nation state: political and historical deliberations - Roman Bäcker: The porcelain fragility of authoritarian states - Marek Bankowicz: A state in democratic and authoritarian regimes - Teresa Los-Nowak: Amorphousness of a state in a postmodern international system - Teresa Sasinska-Klas: The paradoxes of modern communication in old nation-states - Javier Lorenzo Rodríguez: The informational paradigm and the modern state - Maciej Herbut/Ryszard Herbu: The European Union as a regulatory regime - Marek Wróblewski: Debt crisis in the euro zone: selected problems of economic and fiscal governance - Katarzyna Sobolewska-Myslik: Crisis in party politics: new aspects of the old problem - Robert Alberski: Electoral systems in regional politics of supremacy - Patrizia Magaro: Rise, crisis and transfiguration of the Italian regional system - James Mitchell: State transformation in pursuit of continuity: the case of Scotland - Agnieszka Kasinska-Metryka: The Spanish way from authoritarianism to democracy - Arkadiusz ukowski/Marcin Chelminiak: The enclaves of Europe: the case of the Kaliningrad region of Russian Federation - Jacek Sroka: Regional governance in Polish version: voivodship social dialog commissions - Robert Wiszniowski: Revisiting a nation-state: some theoretical assumptions.

The book (...) organizes in a harmonic frame a wide research concerning many complex strictly interdependent issues. The analysis is enriched by a sharp conclusive reinterpretation of the concept of the Nation-State. The presence of well integrated approaches (...) expresses the great intellectual richness of the volume. (Adriano Giovannelli, Università degli Studi di Genova)

The monograph presents an ambitious (...) analysis of the challenges currently facing European States. (...) I found the collection to offer a set of perspectives that are equally challenging and refreshing. (Daniel Wincott, Cardiff University)