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Polish Women Fight for Their Rights After Poland’s Near-Total Ban on Abortion. Will Marches Be Enough to Stop PiS?

posted on January 10, 2021 by Bilge Kahraman

Koç University Tagged With: abortion, Civil society, pis, Poland, protests

Populist approach of Law and Justice Party (PiS) caused substantial amount of damage to democracy in Poland. PiS dominates the Polish Parliament for a long time. Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski enjoy …

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Master Manipulators: How the PiS’s Strategy for Media Control Was Hampered by the Public

posted on November 18, 2020 by Julianna Rossi

University of Chicago Tagged With: authoritarianism, autocrat, censorship, duda, Eastern Europe, Free Speech, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, journalism, media, media bias, media censorship, media control, media freedom, media repression, pis, Poland

Poland’s media problem began with President Andrzej Duda’s election in 2015. He started with blatant attempts to control the commanding heights of the media, especially public television. Duda …

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Subjugating the Fourth Branch: the Case of Public Media in the Polish Presidential Election

posted on October 19, 2020 by Wawrzyniec Muszynski-Sulima

University of Chicago Tagged With: duda, Kaczyński, media, osce, pis, po, Poland, public media, trzaskowski, tv, tvp

On June 13th 2020, the incumbent Andrzej Duda secured another 5 years in office as the president of the Republic of Poland. After a fierce battle and with a mere 400 thousand votes of advantage, he …

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