TY - JOUR A1 - Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel T1 - Verfassungsdiskurs in Polen Y1 - 2005 SN - 3-932502-47- 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel T1 - Civil society and its discontents N2 - The article departs from the discussion of the Sources of the scholar interest in civil societv and proceeds to the functional expectations about it. It claims that the concept of civil society, as it is frequently used in scientific and political debates, has specific cultural roots, which makcs a trans-cultural analysis difficult or perhaps even impossible. Furthermore, the article addresses three conceptual problems of civil society, namely the issue of what constitutes civil society, its autonomy and impact as well as the challenge of civil society to the state. The central argument of the article is that in order to examine the impact of civil society on governance and democracy, it is recommendable to include three levels of analysis, namely the structure and functions of civil society (including also the possibly negative impact of civil society), the type of state co-existing with civil society as well as the character of the relationship between state and civil society Y1 - 2006 UR - http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/publicationdetails.aspx?publicationId=d56055ca-e456-493b-aba2-6b856bba01b1 SN - 1231-1413 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel T1 - Civil society and its discontents Y1 - 2006 SN - 978-3-949469-40-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel A1 - Mehlhausen, Thomas A1 - Sus, Monika T1 - The Polish EU Council Presidency in 2011: Master or Servant? JF - Journal of European integration N2 - The point of departure of this article is limited systematic research on the rotating EU Council Presidency after the Lisbon Treaty. In order to assess rotating presidencies the paper proposes a three-tier approach which includes a functional, a behavioural and a contingency dimension. These dimensions are supplemented by the institutional changes of the Lisbon Treaty referring to the rotating presidencies. Next, the paper applies this evaluation framework to the Polish Presidency that took place in the second half of 2011. Finally, it draws conclusions from the Polish case for both the leadership capacity of the rotating Council Presidency in the post-Lisbon European Union and the performance of Poland's EU Council Presidency. KW - Poland KW - EU Council Presidency KW - Lisbon Treaty KW - institutional changes KW - functions of Presidency KW - three-tier approach Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2015.1053085 SN - 0703-6337 SN - 1477-2280 VL - 37 IS - 6 SP - 667 EP - 684 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER -