Democratisation and Autocratisation in Multi-level Democracies.
Case Study of Poland

Adam Szymański

Principal investigator

Associate Professor; Ph.D. in Political Science (2006), habilitation in Political Science (2015); associate professor.

Principal investigator in the project “Between Fair and Rigged. Elections as a Key Determinant of the ‘Borderline Political Regime’ – Turkey in Comparative Perspective” TÜBITAK Research Fellow at the Koç University in Istanbul (2012-2013). Head of the Polish Research Group on Contemporary Turkey at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies (since 2014).

Member of the General Board of PTNP (since 2019); Chair of RC13 „Democratization in Comparative Perspective” (since 2020) in International Political Science Association, IPSA; member of Standing Groups “Religion and Politics”, “Politics of Southern Europe” , and “European Union” of the European Consortium for Political Research, ECPR (since 2011).

Research interests

Political system and foreign policy of Turkey; Democratization and de-democratization in comparative perspective; European integration: enlargement of the European Union, EU-Turkey relations, Europeanization and de-Europeanization, differentiated integration; Islam and democracy.

Recent publications

A. Szymański, De-Democratization: The Case of Hungary in a Comparative Perspective, “PS: Political Science & Politics”, 2019 no. 2, pp. 272-273.

A. Szymański, J. Wódka, W. Ufel and A. Dziubińska, Between Fair and Rigged. Elections as a Key Determinant of the ‘Borderline Political Regime’ – Turkey in Comparative Perspective, Peter Lang Verlag, Berlin 2020.

A. Szymański, “Changes in Executive-Legislative Relationship: A Comparative Analysis of Turkey and Central European Countries”, [in:] I. Khelko, F. Stapenhurst, M. L. Mezey (eds.), Legislative Decline in the 21st Century. A Comparative Perspective, Routledge, Abingdon, New York 2020, pp. 118-128.

A. Szymański, A. Cianciara, “Differentiation, Brexit and EU-Turkey relations”, [in:] B. Leruth, S. Gänzle, J. Trondal (eds.) What future for European integration? Differentiated (dis)integration in light of Brexit, Routledge, Abingdon, New York 2020, pp. 182-201.

A. Szymański, A. Cianciara, Differentiated integration: towards a new model of European Union–Turkey relations?, “Turkish Studies”, 2020 no. 2 (21), pp. 254-273.

Adam Szymański, Ahmet Furkan Cihangiroğlu, Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey, “British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies,” 2023, DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2023.2251140

Łukasz Zamęcki, Adam Szymański, Unintentional Democratic Backsliders. ‘Evil Always Wins Through the Strength of its Splendid Dupes’ „Polish Political Science Review” (Polski Przegląd Politologiczny), 2023 no. 1(11), pp.24-45.

Łukasz Zamęcki, Renata Mieńkowska-Norkiene and Adam Szymański (eds.), Democratic Backsliding in Poland. Why Has Poland Gone to the Dark Side?, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), Lanham, Boulder, New York, London 2023 – including: Adam Szymański, “The Role of the Institutional Factor in the Development of De-democratisation in Poland,” pp. 141-165.

Contact: ar.szymanski@uw.edu.pl