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The article discusses the problem of the evolution of audiovisual political advertising in Polish parliamentary campaigns in the years 2005–2019, taking a closer look at the presentation of programmatic issues, centralized personalization, and the rhetorical functions of spots. The content analysis of the election spots results in a fairly unchanged marketing standard of election offers, appropriate for all parties (regardless of their size), expressing an attempt to combine sensitivity to important voters' needs with an extensive symbolic layer, emotionally engaging for image purposes. In most spots, the emphasis on psychological and social benefits at the expense of functional (economic) benefits prevails. The change in campaigns concerns only the increase in the importance of appeals attacking political opponents. However, their role remains secondary, regardless of the party's position on the political market.

The article presents Silesian culinary customs in the context of the cultural changes of the last few centuries. The author refers to the remarks of Norbert Elias, who illustrated these metamorphoses by describing behaviour in everyday life, including culinary customs. This methodology is applied to the description of regional cooking customs - the author postulates broadening the field of research and going beyond the analysis of the Upper Silesian peasant's behaviour only. He argues against the stereotype of identifying the description of native cuisine with plebeian menus, citing, for example, the case of the cuisine of Prince George Rudolf of Legnica, where the Swiss cookbook by Anna Wecker (1605) was used, the English menu at the Pszczyna court of the Hochberg family, or the influence of the Schlesisches Kochbuch by Henrietta Pelz on Silesian bourgeois cuisine at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. These examples lead the author to conclude that Silesian cuisine was open to the transfer of culinary customs, a phenomenon he interprets as a readiness to embrace cultural change by different social groups in the region.

The paper presents a hermeneutic analysis of constructive, cognitive and connectivist theories as well as the results of selected empirical research on the need to shape teachers' digital competences, with special emphasis on teachers of primary classes. Against the background of contemporary requirements of post-digital education, the features and predispositions of a competent early school teacher have been characterized. The paper is published in the project VEGA 1/0748/20 Diagnosing Digital Literacy of Primary School Teachers in the Context of Undergraduate Training and Educational Reality.

The human rights protection system in the Middle East, especially in the Persian Gulf states, is often discussed in the literature in the context of women's rights or the use of torture and the death penalty. An important topic related to human rights in the modern world is the kafala system, which has been operating in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, i.e., Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, and Jordan for years. The states have perceived it as a system of foreign worker protection. According to the latest data, it is estimated that 25 million migrants live and work in the GCC countries, 70% of the Gulf Cooperation Council workforce consists of migrant workers, and 49% of the total GCC population are migrants. The kafala system determines the dependence between a foreign employee and an Arab employer, which is often associated with the emergence of various types of violations of employee rights and threats to their lives and health.

The debate about the planned Islamic costumes of the countries of the Middle Empire, particularly Iran, have been going on for several decades. A Muslim state, a woman's visit outfit (in Iran, the hijab) presents itself as a symbol of the religious identity of the state, and from the state's perspective. Besides, Islamic women wear burqa, chak, niqab, or hijab, which are synonymous with something else. It is a serious mistake because each of the Islamic women's outfits listed has unique characteristics.

The growing body of scholarly literature on Silesians and Upper Silesia requires researchers to make first attempts to systematize the issue. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that in Upper Silesia we can observe unique, distinct political phenomena. The study was carried out as a structured review of scholarly literature which covers research in the field of political science, related to Silesians and Upper Silesia, treated as a specific object of analysis. The study included 25 scientific articles indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database. The analysis has shown that many political phenomena occurring in Upper Silesia are of a unique character, not encountered in other regions of Poland. It also indicated a number of research problems that still need to be investigated and the problem of lack of data triangulation present in the literature.

The research on the information media coverage of elections deals with a concept of strategic game framing. Despite the major importance of the media in elections, there are few systematic research on the media framing in Poland. Using a content analysis of two television news programmes, the goal of the study was to evaluate the frequency of strategic game framing in comparison with issue framing and to test the hypothesis about the relationship between application of the frames and different ownership types in the media (public vs private). The findings show a key role of strategic game framing in the news programmes covering European Parliamentary elections and Parliamentary elections of 2019 in Poland and refute the hypothesis that ownership type of media predicts the frequency of analysed frames.

The term of a 'model/models' of the civic (participatory) budget (CB) has not been discussed more widely in the Polish literature so far. There are also no publications comparing the existing typologies or classifications. In the article, the author presents what the civic budget model is and its definition in political science research. Various approaches are presented based on both Polish and English-language literature on the subject. The main aim of the article is to propose a model of civic budget in Poland. For this purpose, the author presents practical solutions of the Polish CB and, on this basis, distinguishes between general models (based on the scale of the entire state) and specific models (based on the solutions in local government units). The author also presents the components of these general and specific models.

The aim of the article is to analyze Charles Maurras' concept of integral nationalism, in which he assumed the restoration of the limited monarchy to be the only appropriate governance model which enables a nation to develop. The first part outlines Ch. Maurras' perception of integral nationalism and the role of monarchy in relation to the nation. The latter part is an attempt to use the French version of nationalism in modern European monarchies and find a set of characteristics that should represent the new royal power. The results of the research show that Maurras' new version of nationalism was not as utopian as it was claimed by his critics and has applications in modern European monarchies.