Galia Chimiak

Polish Academy of Sciences | PAN · Institute of Philosophy and Sociology

The aim of this chapter is to discuss the evolution of the studies on civil society using the example of Poland.

This chapter maps the transformation of human resources in Polish institutionalized civil society over the last thirty years. Informed by the supply-side perspective, according to which individuals’ motivations and backgrounds provide the major explanatory variable accounting for the establishment and running of civil society organizations, it focu...

After the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, some countries opened their labour markets to citizens from the then new member states. This opportunity to seek gainful employment abroad eventually resulted in having the Polish diaspora become the largest ethnic minority in Ireland. That they were economic immigrants notwithstanding, some of the...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to discuss the rise of internationalized civil society elites in Poland engaged in the fields of development cooperation, democratization assistance, humanitarian relief and global education in the framework of private international governance theory. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative sociological approach an...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine motivations of social activists in informal initiatives and to understand why they opt for this more spontaneous and self-organized activism while openly defying the hitherto established way of founding non-governmental organizations. Design/methodology/approach On the basis of a case study of Poland...

The paper examines the factors that determined the emergence of non-governmental development organizations (NGDOs) in Poland and their impact on the appropriation of development norms and practices by the Polish aid system. These processes are understood as a natural continuation of, on the one hand, the international appeal of the trade union and...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) role in development evolved from marginal to major over the second half of the XX century. In the early 1990s the increase of support for NGOs in countries receiving foreign aid was an effect of donors' attempts to circumvent the recipients' state institutions as these were considered corrupt and/or ineffective...

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In this paper I analyse the outcomes of an empirical research conducted among forty social activists engaged in public benefit organisations in Poland. Specifically, I present their model of the good citizen and argue that it is a mixture of the individualist, liberal with some of the aspects of the communitarian version of citizenship that charact...

The aim of this article is to describe and compare the situation of women in two countries from Central and Eastern Europe. Its focus is to account for the participation of women in the public sphere. The justification for choosing Bulgaria and Poland lies in the argument that although a more or less uniform regime of state socialism provides the b...

Although Poland is unanimously accepted as one of the success-stories of post-communist transformation, it is not exempt from the adverse effects of radical social change. This article presents the dimensions of this negative impact within the theoretical framework of social and cultural trauma. Different strategies which people employ in dealing w...