PiS-led 'Fourth Republic' (IV RP) project — twin-Kaczynski governance combining social-conservative cultural policy, lustration, and a mildly redistributive fiscal line with the CBA anti-corruption agency. Economic school: Polish national-conservative economic-interventionist with targeted transfers; Gilowska tax package (2007) cut disability contribution and reduced effective labour tax. Left-right axis: right on cultural/institutional axes, centrist-interventionist on economic axes. Dated policies: CBA Central Anticorruption Bureau established (9 June 2006, effective 24 July 2006), lustration law (Oct 2006, partially struck down by Constitutional Tribunal May 2007), 800+ family transfer precursor becikowe (one-off 1000 zl childbirth payment, Nov 2005 / from Jan 2006), PIT/KRUS disability-contribution cut (2007). Popularity: PiS won 2005 (26.99%) and 2007 (32.11% — yet lost to PO). Coherence: moderate — coalition with Samoobrona (Lepper) and LPR (Giertych) strained. Collapsed in autumn 2007 on taped-briefings scandal around Lepper.
Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
increased · weak
larger transfer footprint
Becikowe childbirth grant, family benefit indexation.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
decreased · weak
weaker judicial independence
Lustration enforcement contested by Constitutional Tribunal; precursor to later PiS judicial clashes.