The paper presents key dimensions of the consolidation of democracy, in which trouble spots of Polish democracy appeared. These dimensions are: correct and coherent legislative solutions, efficiency and stability of state institutions, effective mechanisms and channels of representation together with implementation of main social groups’ demands, functioning of party system according to democratic principles, effective mechanisms resolving political and social conflicts, effective and adequate reactions of state institutions to emergency situations, strong and active civil society, integrated and democratic political culture of elite and mass society.