Aktywność protestacyjna Polaków w latach 1989-2009

Abstract

The study tackles the problem of Poles’ protest activity after the fall of communism. It engages in empirically testing whether the protest mobilization in Poland, comparatively low in the initial stage of democratic transformation, had strengthened since then. The results of surveys analyzed in the paper prove that whereas the level of protest support had risen, protest activity had even declined. Most active were several occupational groups, who in consecutive waves of protest acted in defence of their economic interests, mainly by going on strikes. Disputes concentrated on values, including the post-materialist, were episodic.