1. GREECE AND POLAND AS TWO EXAMPLES OF A PARLIAMENTATY SYSTEM
Dr Łukasz Danel
Lecturer in Politics
Department of Political Science
Cracow University of Economics
Poland

2. third biggest university in Cracow more than 23000 students
the largest school of economics in Poland
third biggest university in Cracow
more than students
programmes for all levels of study (Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate courses) as well as many post-diploma programmes

3. Faculty of Economics and International Relations Faculty of Finance
FACULTIES
Faculty of Economics and International Relations
Faculty of Finance
Faculty of Commodity Science
Faculty of Management
Faculty of Public Economy and Administration

4. The Faculty of Economics and International Relations:
The Faculty of Economics and International Relations:
Economics
European Studies
International Relations
International Economic Relations
International Logistics
Organization and Management Engineering
Organization and Management – Managerial Studies

9. LECH WAŁĘSA

10. JOHN PAUL II (KAROL WOJTYŁA)

11. ROMAN POLAŃSKI

12. FREDERIC CHOPIN

13. NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

14. ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI

15. JACEK GMOCH

16. Second largest city in Poland:
Population: inhabitants
Surface: 327 km2

23. GREECE
VS.
POLAND

24. Greece, Poland – parliamentary regime
POLITICAL REGIMES
Parliamentary regime
Presidential regime
Semi-presidential regime
Rule of convent system
Greece, Poland – parliamentary regime

25. PLAN OF THE LECTURE
1. The constitutional form of government
2. The legislative power (including the electoral system)
3. The executive power
4. The party system
5. Curiosities

26. Constitutional form of government
MONARCHY VS REPUBLIC
Sovereignty is actually or nominally embodied in a single individual that is the monarch. This title is usually inherited, though monarchs may also be elected or even appointed by a current monarch
Offices of state are subsequently directly or indirectly elected or appointed rather than inherited. The head of state is usually a president
Present-day monarchies – 45 (22% of all states)

27. Legislative power (incl. the electoral system)
Structure of parliaments:
Bicameral vs. Unicameral
Unicameral in majority!
Greece – The Hellenic Parliament (unicameral)
Poland – Sejm and Senate (bicameral)

29. Sejm: 460 Senat: 100 MEMBERSHIP The Hellenic Parliament: 300
Asymmetrical bicameralism =
supremacy of a lower chamber of parliament

30. Draft Laws + Law Proposals Regular legislative procedure
Legislative process
Greece:
Draft Laws + Law Proposals
Regular legislative procedure
Urgent legislative procedure
Parliament + President
Poland: Sejm + Senate + President

31. The Hellenic Parliament:
ELECTORAL SYSTEM
The Hellenic Parliament:
term of office – 4 years
system of reinforced proportional representation
multi-member constituencies + single-member constituencies + one multi-member nationwide constituency
Hagenbach-Bischoff method

32. ELECTORAL SYSTEM Sejm: term of office – 4 years
proportional representation
multi-member constituencies
d’Hondt method
Senate:
elected together with Sejm
FPTP system
single-member constituencies

33. Executive power
it is dualistic - held by two institutions: the head of state and a collective government headed by a prime minister
it is the distribution of seats in the parliament after the general election (and agreements that are made when none of the parties has a majority of seats) that is decisive when it comes to forming a government (and choosing a prime minister) regardless of the fact who formally makes such decisions

34. ALEXIS TSIPRAS BEATA SZYDŁO

35. The President
the head of state (either a monarch or a president) exercises little or only reserve power with reference to both internal and foreign policy; holds only ceremonial and representative functions or the ones that are restricted to accepting the will of the parliamentarian majority

36. PROKOPIS PAVLOPOULOS ANDRZEJ DUDA

37. Election of the President
the president may be elected directly or indirectly
Poland – directly (two-round system)
Greece – indirectly (by parliament)
term of office: 5 years (maximum two terms)

38. Coalition of the Radical Left , New Democracy
PARTY SYSTEM
multi-party-system
GREECE
Coalition of the Radical Left , New Democracy +
Golden Dawn, Democratic Coalition, Communist Party, The River, Independent Greeks, Union of Centrists

39. (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość – PiS)
LAW AND JUSTICE
(Prawo i Sprawiedliwość – PiS)
currently in government
leader: Jarosław Kaczyński (Andrzej Duda, Beata Szydło)
right-wing
ideology: national conservatism, social conservatism, EU-scepticism, clericalism

40. CIVIC PLATFORM
POLISH PEOPLE’S PARTY
KUKIZ ’15
MODERN

41. CURIOSITIES
Unitary states
Women’s suffrage and women in politics
The right to be elected
Electoral threshold
Voter turnout
The Constitutional Court

42. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!