@misc{Szafraniec_Krystyna_Analysis_2015,
 author={Szafraniec, Krystyna},
 number={2 (167)},
 copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license},
 address={Warszawa},
 journal={Wieś i Rolnictwo},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2015},
 publisher={Instytut Rozwoju Wsi i Rolnictwa Polskiej Akademii Nauk},
 language={pl},
 abstract={The author addresses a question of whether farmers in Poland are still, as was often emphasized economists and sociologists in the 90s, the “ballast of civilization and political change”. The analysis has been based on data from a study of “Poles” (1996, 2000, 2011), conducted from the pre-Solidarity era and uses this as a quasi-panel of large national samples. The period under analysis concerns a post-communist Poland, where two factors seem to be particularly important in the analysis of agriculture and rural areas: membership in the European Union and the increasing globalization of the world economy. After a period of “oppressive freedom”, associated with adopting the rules of a market economy, farmers and (to a slightly lesser degree) the rural areas in Poland have become the main beneficiaries of EU support. It is questioned whether these circumstances are changing attitudes of rural residents (including farmers) to changes in the political system, the state, and their own future? The answer is ambivalent. The tide of EU money may bring better living conditions in the countryside and reduces the differences between rural and urban dwelling, but does not contribute to the same degree to an increase in the competitiveness of farms. This has resulted in greater loyalty of farmers and other rural residents toward the system. This, however is disproportionate to the scale of financial support and very selective and does not eliminate claims of scale against the state, which in an era of globalization mainly influences social expectations.},
 type={Text},
 title={Analysis of changes in circumstances, attitudes and political orientation of farmers and other residents of villages and towns after 1989},
 URL={http://www.rcin.org.pl/Content/243168/wir_2015_2_167_063_082.pdf},
 keywords={village, farmers, political transformation, change in attitudes and political orientation, Poland},
}