Szymański Adam
dr hab. Adam Szymański, prof. ucz. – Ph.D. in Political Science (2006), habilitation in Political Science (2015); associate profesor at the Faculty of Political Science and Administration. Principal investigator of the project “Democratization and autocratization in multilevel democracies. Case study of Poland” funded by the National Science Centre, OPUS 20 (2021-2025); principal investigator of the project “Between Fair and Rigged. Elections as a Key Determinant of the ‘Borderline Political Regime’ – Turkey in Comparative Perspective” financed by the National Science Centre (NCN), OPUS 11 (2017- 2020). 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 the Polish Political Science Association, PTNP (since 2019) and member of the board of the Warsaw Branch of PTNP (since 2023). Chair of IPSA RC13 „Democratization in Comparative Perspective” (since 2021); member of Standing Groups “Religion and Politics”, “Politics of Southern Europe”, and “European Union” of the European Consortium for Political Research, ECPR (since 2011). Vice-Chair of the Council of Political Science and Administration and Security Studies at the University of Warsaw (since 2021).
Research interests
Political system and foreign policy of Turkey; Democratization and de-democratization in comparative perspective, including the subnational level; European integration: enlargement of the European Union, EU-Turkey relations, Europeanization and de-Europeanization, differentiated integration; Islam and democracy.
Unit
Department of Political Systems
Recent publications:
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), vol.11, no. 1, 2023, pp.24-45, https://doi.org/10.2478/ppsr-2023-0003
Łukasz Zamęcki, Renata Mieńkowska-Norkiene i 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.
