Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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AGNIESZKA REFERENCES LITERATUR K. CIANCIARA<br />
SUMMARY<br />
3<br />
POLISH BUSINESS – POLITICS RELATIONS<br />
AND THEIR IMPACT ON NATIONAL LOBBYING<br />
AT THE EU LEVEL<br />
Agnieszka K. Cianciara<br />
There are differences in businesspolitics<br />
relations between CEEC and<br />
Western Europe that stem from the<br />
specificities of the post-communist capitalist<br />
model. The communist heritage, as well<br />
the three simultaneous processes of change<br />
(transformation to capitalism and democracy,<br />
Europeanization, globalization) have created<br />
hybrid institutions at the CEE national level.<br />
Polish capitalism is characterized by significant<br />
public sector, weak corporate governance<br />
mechanisms, relatively poor business climate,<br />
inefficient governance structures and weak<br />
institutionalization of civil and social dialogue,<br />
as well as extremely weak legitimization of<br />
lobbying. This is translated into specific types<br />
of relations between business and political<br />
elites: clientelistic relations of state-owned<br />
companies, oligarchic relations of biggest<br />
national private companies and weak organization<br />
of SMEs, while professional lobbying<br />
strategies are used mostly by multinational<br />
companies. How do these domestic patterns<br />
of relations between business and politics<br />
affect mobilization, resources and strategies<br />
of Polish business interest representation at<br />
the EU level? It appears that post-communist<br />
formal and informal heritage still plays an<br />
important role in politics-business relations.<br />
In the Polish case, this is manifested in the<br />
degree of embeddedness in domestic<br />
clientelistic and oligarchic networks,<br />
the level of internationalization and Seite Page page 45<br />
resulting autonomy vis-a-vis national<br />
political elites, as well as a lack of tradition,<br />
institutionalization and legitimization<br />
of pluralist interest representation.