Abstract
Post-communist Poland has simultaneously undertaken major political and economic reforms and entered the European Union. At the same time, Poland has witnessed significant party instability, electoral volatility and the evolution of unorthodox populist movements and parties in the course of democratisation transition since 1989. Indeed, the electoral successes of a variety of Eurosceptic, socially conservative and devoutly Catholic political parties supported by a 'coalition of the politically and economically dispossessed' in 2005 poses a far reaching challenge to the Polish political order itself and even to the ambitions of European political elites. The aim of this article is to analyse the key aspects of democratic transformation since 1989 and to locate therein both the factors that have impeded the development of democratic consolidation as well as to map the cumulative effect of the European Union accession process on the character of recent Polish politics. Only against such a background will it be possible to discern the possible trajectory of the Polish political order and speculate on the shape of Polish-EU relations in the years ahead. Keywords: Poland, Democratisation,European Union, Populism, Polish EU relations.
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