Most studies on the democratic – and in recent years – on the non-democratic changes have focused so far on the national level, even though they are also highly significant at the local and regional levels. This multilevel approach to study democracy is adopted in this lecture which is aimed at discussing the case of Poland between 2010 and 2024 and the following issues:
- The concept and understanding of democratic backsliding;
- Democratic backsliding at the national level in Poland;
- Democratic deficits/backsliding at subnational levels in Poland;
- The impact of national politics/democratic backsliding on subnational levels.
The lecture will present findings of a research project published recently in OA by Routledge in the monograph Democratization and De-democratization in Multilevel Democracy in Poland, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003666882.
This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for European Studies, Office of Global Engagement, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Department for Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, and Erasmus+.
Bio
Adam Szymański, ar.szymanski@uw.edu.pl, ORCID: 0000-0002-6374-2736, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw; in 2004-2011 also analyst in the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) in Warsaw; in 2012-2013 TÜBITAK research fellow at the Koç University in Istanbul. He has published widely on the democratization in comparative perspective, EU enlargement and Turkish politics, including articles in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Contemporary Politics, PS: Political Science & Politics, Theory and Practice of Legislation and Turkish Studies. He is currently the Chair of the IPSA (International Political Science Association) Research Committee no. 13 “Democratization in Comparative Perspective.” He was recently the head of the project Democratization and autocratization in multi-level democracies. Analysis of the case of Poland (National Science Centre, program OPUS 20).
