State Capitalism in Poland

Abstract

Theoretical background:The article is devoted to the knowledge gap in understanding processes of growing state interventionism in a number of post-communist countries, Poland being one of the most notable examples. This evolution is still understudied in the literature, both in terms of evidence and proper theoretical framework. Existing theoretical perspectives have been created for studying other types

The illiberal model of state capitalism in Poland

“…According to the new government leaders' an-nouncements, their government would lead to reverse or correction of systemic reforms that occurred in Poland after the fall of communism, including those that affect the most important institutions. As a result, an illiberal, authoritarian (see: Chart 1) and the statist turn in Poland happened, which is well documented in the literature (see: Bugarič, 2019;Dąbrowska, 2019;Ginsburg, 2020;Grzymala-Busse, 2018;Kozarzewski & Bałtowski, 2022;Markowski, 2019;Sadurski, 2019;Smiecinska, 2020). It is not my goal to summarize the literature.…”