Strach się bać. PiS-owska socjotechnika lęku i strachu

The paper aims at drafting the characteristics of social engineering by anxiety and fear as has been used effectively for years by the Law and Justice party (PiS). It begins with providing background on the complex relations within the triad of anxiety, fear and politics, as outlined in classical works on power, among others. It then briefly presents fear through the lens of affective economics. The empirical section provides select examples of how the rhetoric of PiS uses anxiety and fear by fuelling and exaggerating them.