Publication

This working paper features two articles discussing political corruption in Poland. The first article examines the sources of corruption in post-communist Poland and analyzes state institutional weakness against the backdrop of the chaotic political and economic changes Poland has witnessed since the beginning of the 1990s. The second article investigates a specific example of corruption in Poland, namely clientelism in the Silesian coal mining industry. The author discusses the idea of clientelism and cronyism, outlines the organizational structure of the coal mining industry, and concludes that an effective way to limit clientelistic networks is the privatization of the economy.