Publication by WNPISM researchers in Routledge: “Democratization and De-democratization in Multi-level Democracy in Poland”

A multi-author monograph entitled “Democratization and De-democratization in Multi-level Democracy in Poland” has been published by the prestigious Routledge publishing house. The publication is the result of the work of a research team consisting of employees of the Department of Political Systems at WNPiSM UW, the Department of Political Research Methodology at WNPiSM UW, the Department of Political Theory and Political Thought at WNPiSM UW, and the Department of Sociology of the Individual and Social Relations at WS UAM.

The book is a comprehensive study of the processes of democratization and de-democratization taking place in Polish regional and local structures in the years 2010–2023. The authors analyzed the situation in selected provinces and cities, examining their relations with processes taking place at the national level.

Among other things, the work shows that decentralization processes are a “double-edged sword”—they can be an opportunity to deepen democracy at the local level, but in specific conditions, they can also foster autocratic tendencies, deepening the differences in the quality of democracy between different levels of government.

Authors of the monograph:

• Prof. Adam Szymański, (Department of Political Systems, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw),
• Dr. Agnieszka Bejma, (Department of Political Theory and Political Thought, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw),
• Prof. Izolda Bokszczanin-Gołaś, (Department of Political Systems, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw),
• Prof. Wojciech Gagatek, (Department of Political Research Methodology, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw),
• Dr. Agnieszka Stamm-Korecka, PhD (Department of Sociology of the Individual and Social Relations, Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University).

The publication presents the final results of research carried out as part of the project “Democratization and autocratization in multilevel democracies. A case study of Poland” (No. 2020/39/B/HS5/01016), funded by the National Science Centre (NCN) as part of the OPUS 20 program.

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003666882