The theses of the journal «Studia politologiczne» about the «election and authority» problem

The article analyzes the results of the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2015, the EU parliamentary elections in 2019 and parliamentary elections 2019. The articles presents the strategy used by Polish elites in the presidential and parliamentary campaigns. The main purpose of the paper is to present social engineering as a strategy of social management aimed at monopolizing political power. Social engineering strategies are based on the broad ambitions of steering systems and the long horizon of social changes planning. Social engineering here is closer to culture engineering, socialization, indoctrination, and aims not only at modifying the behavior of controlled systems, but above all at causing permanent changes in the structure of values, emotions and stereotypes.