How people use the courts : the disputes and courts in Poland / Jacek Kurczewski, Małgorzata Fuszara.

Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang GmbH, 2017.

KKP1582 .K87 2017

Pol 710 K965 2017

9783631723715 hardcover
3631723717 hardcover
9783631724767 (E-Book)
9783631724774 (EPUB)
9783631724781 (MOBI)

264 pages ; 22 cm.

(OCoLC)985447368

"This book analyzes how people settle disputes in and outside of Polish courts. The preference for courts against informal settlements increased with the consolidation of the democratic legal state. Still, the compromise settlement remains the cultural ideal. The authors evaluate these circumstances in their extensive study of private disputes in the courts and of different types of individual settlements. They observed that the role of power behind these choices proved to be significant as people in better social positions are more inclined to use the courts and in worse social positions more inclined to deal informally with opponents in power. The ethnic factor surveyed in other former Communist countries is also related to the relative power of the different ethnic groups. The book investigates how institutional, social and cultural factors interact in shaping the dispute settlement patterns."-- Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

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