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Maria Moczydłowska was the youngest female member in Legislative Sejm, and one out of three women, who run for parliament from national electoral list (together with Gabriela Balicka and Zofia Sokolnicka). She succeeded in the elections mainly because of collaboration with father Wacław Bliziński, cofounder of National People’s Union. Moczydłowska worked with female members of parliament, regardless of their political origin, strongly supported women and men equality, and prohibition. She was the first woman to speak in front of Sejm. Once retired from politics Moczydłowska focused on education activism.

Poland and Ukraine are two different examples of post‑ communist countries in which democratization processes exhibit different pace, determinants and results. The main aim of this article is to define the theoretical basis of the democratic transformation processes in Poland and Ukraine. A comparative analysis of systemic changes in two neighboring countries has been made, regarding specific determinants influencing these processes. Article arose from the need to answer the question: What is the significance of the experience of Polish and Ukrainian systemic transformation for modern transitology.

The aim of the article is the characteristics of the process of consolidation of democracy in Poland in the past 11 years. The main research question posed in the article: democracy in Poland is non‑consolidated. The process was characterized political competition (electoral and parliamentary coalitions) and the factors determining the (conditional) process of consolidation of democracy. The article has an interdisciplinary research problem will be analysed on a basis of polemology, be a different sociology and philosophies. Attempt to answer the research question, can make a significant contribution to the further exploration of the process of consolidation of democracy in Poland.

The present article discusses the way cities with poviat rights in the Silesian Voivodeship deal with petitions submitted by their citizens. Since the Act on Petitions became law till the enforcement by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on data protection and privacy for all individuals with regards to the processing and export of personal data, 300 petitions were submitted to the councils of 19 cities. Data analysis leads to the conclusion that there is no uniform way of dealing with such cases. Each subject proposes different steps in dealing with petitions. Some subjects perform their tasks in an exemplary way, giving thus an example of conduct favourable to citizens; others constrain themselves to the statutory minimum, while yet another group does not comply with most of the statutory obligations.

The article presents an issue of the intervention to protect the Yezidis started in August 2014 in northern Iraq. The United States, the crucial intervener, had the consent of the Iraqi government to conduct military operations in favour of its territorial integrity and to protect Iraqi citizens. However, there were also other interveners and the military actions took place nor only in the Iraqi territory. The author of the article argues that in the military operation to protect the Yezidi people, much more elements of humanitarian intervention than of the responsibility to protect can be found. Thus the various components of the military action in 2014 to protect the Yezidis were presented through the prism of ideas of humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect.

The paper objective is to determine the scope of tasks of media relations services which operate in different entities from the area of social and economic life. Selection of the place for location of these services in organizational structures, having the impact on the rank, effectiveness and range of the competences, was also analyzed. The subject of development, meaning and compliance with applicable law of communication procedures prepared to optimize the organization’s contacts with mass media was also taken up.

The main objective of this article is drawing a general outline of Polish‑Jewish relations in years between 1918—2018 while analysing contemporary image of these relations that has been shaped through bipolar political narration in two ways: heroically nostalgic and critical. I will try to prove that story of common past, having great impact on the image of our nation, has now become yet another front line of ideological division of Polish society. As relentless dispute about antisemitism in times of independent Poland continues, it intensifies with current events that evoke it, such as amendment of act about Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) and commemorations of important events: liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, riots in ghetto in Warsaw, Polish March of 1968. I will also present points of disagreement in historiography of Polish and Jewish experiences as well as analysis of media reaction about infamous events of March ‘68 that arose during spring of 2018 by occasion of their 50th anniversary, using examples from weekly magazines of opinion “Polityka” and “Sieci”.

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