A group of researchers from the Institute of Sociology at the University of Poznań—Marek Ziółkowski, Barbara Pawłowska and Rafał Drozdowski—has written a book entitled "The Individual and Power." The book was published in February this year by NAKOM publishing house in Poznań. It is the result of sociological research into the individual's relationship with power in 1992–1993, a period of significant changes and transformations in the consciousness of Poles since 1989. It contains exceptionally interesting material assessing political parties, elites and politicians featured on the front pages of newspapers. It also includes extensive survey material portraying society's relationship with power and showing what civic activity stems from, as well as the causes of its activity and decline. It examines attitudes toward local authorities.
Attempts to analyze and answer questions such as:
What is just, strong and competent power? It contains exceptionally interesting material assessing the old authorities (those from the period of the People's Republic of Poland) and the new authorities, those after 1989. The reflections and analysis of this material vary and are often very bitter. This is a book that politicians, members of parliament and local-government activists at all levels should read.
It is worth emphasizing that one of the book's co-authors, Barbara Pawłowska, is from Bolesławiec. She attended School No. 4 and the General Secondary School here, and maintains a lasting and cordial relationship with our city.