Physically Present but Spiritually Distant: The View of the European Union in Poland
The Polish people remain staunchly in favour of the concept of a European Union. Paradoxically though, there has been strong and continued electoral support for Law and Justice (PiS), its ruling party, despite its insistence on precipitating and then continuing multifaceted conflicts with EU institu...
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| description | The Polish people remain staunchly in favour of the concept of a European Union. Paradoxically though, there has been strong and continued electoral support for Law and Justice (PiS), its ruling party, despite its insistence on precipitating and then continuing multifaceted conflicts with EU institutions. This article examines the internal structural changes in Poland and the attitudes to the EU of Poland’s leaders; the article will argue that those attitudes have deepened pre-existing divisions over integration. By fusing the triple modernization theory of European integration with a two-dimensional concept of party-based Euroscepticism, the article shows how PiS’s ambiguous discourse on European integration, combined with an increasingly instrumental approach to the EU by the Polish electorate—and that electorate’s deepening polarization—have secured steady support for PiS from ostensibly Europhile voters. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6b2a670d9cf24fd1b70af2ee432d18062025-08-20T02:57:47ZengDe GruyterComparative Southeast European Studies2701-81992701-82022023-09-0171330033210.1515/soeu-2022-0054Physically Present but Spiritually Distant: The View of the European Union in PolandPolak Aleksandra0Hartwell Christopher A.1Sidło Katarzyna W.2Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, PolandZHAW School of Management and Law, International Management Institute, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland; Department of International Management, Kozminski University, Warsaw, PolandMiddle East and North Africa Department, CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, PolandThe Polish people remain staunchly in favour of the concept of a European Union. Paradoxically though, there has been strong and continued electoral support for Law and Justice (PiS), its ruling party, despite its insistence on precipitating and then continuing multifaceted conflicts with EU institutions. This article examines the internal structural changes in Poland and the attitudes to the EU of Poland’s leaders; the article will argue that those attitudes have deepened pre-existing divisions over integration. By fusing the triple modernization theory of European integration with a two-dimensional concept of party-based Euroscepticism, the article shows how PiS’s ambiguous discourse on European integration, combined with an increasingly instrumental approach to the EU by the Polish electorate—and that electorate’s deepening polarization—have secured steady support for PiS from ostensibly Europhile voters.https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2022-0054polandeuropean unioneuropean integrationrule of laweuroscepticism |
| spellingShingle | Polak Aleksandra Hartwell Christopher A. Sidło Katarzyna W. Physically Present but Spiritually Distant: The View of the European Union in Poland Comparative Southeast European Studies poland european union european integration rule of law euroscepticism |
| title | Physically Present but Spiritually Distant: The View of the European Union in Poland |
| title_full | Physically Present but Spiritually Distant: The View of the European Union in Poland |
| title_fullStr | Physically Present but Spiritually Distant: The View of the European Union in Poland |
| title_full_unstemmed | Physically Present but Spiritually Distant: The View of the European Union in Poland |
| title_short | Physically Present but Spiritually Distant: The View of the European Union in Poland |
| title_sort | physically present but spiritually distant the view of the european union in poland |
| topic | poland european union european integration rule of law euroscepticism |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2022-0054 |
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