Adam Szymański
Biographic Data
| ID | 4075081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Szymański |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Szymański |
| SIGNATURE | SZYMANSKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6374-2736 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Legislative–Executive Relations in Poland in 2019–2024
Crisis of democracy in Poland
Most current studies on the democratic or de-democratic changes in Europe have concentrated so far on the national level, while they are also important at the local and regional levels. The article is aimed at investigating: 1) changes going in either democratic or autocratic direction within the subnational structures in a state as well as 2) their relationship with similar processes at the central level - focusing on the impact of the national …
First survive, then thrive
This article highlights the critical yet overlooked role of subnational entities, particularly cities, in autocratisation processes. While research often emphasizes national factors, cities can act as democratic enclaves resisting autocratisation or, alternatively, facilitate authoritarian trends. The article addresses three key questions: (1) What explains democratic enclaves in cities during autocratisation? (2) How do these enclaves resist nat…
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns
This paper aims at finding out whether declining economic indicators have a relationship with the deliberate polarization of society by the AK Parti governments in Turkey. It hypothesizes that the intensification of polarization in the country is a result of deliberate actions of the incumbents to distract the attention of society from economic problems so as to expose other exploitable issues. The authors use content analysis as the main researc…
New temperance movements across the cinemas of Canada
Existential health in an age of medical totalitarianism
If mental health has become a reactionary concept, much like the notion of public health in the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, then how can critical theory best elaborate a concern for well-being which includes both a psychic and social dimension? This article proposes the concept of existential health to grasp the salubrious zest for life that has been extinguished from social life since March 2020, due to rolling lockdowns and the rise of totali…
Podejścia teoretyczne do badania demokratyzacji i autokratyzacji na poziomie lokalnym i regionalnym
In the literature on democratization and autocratization, one of the areas which clearly shows a gap in the theoretical framework is a very important territorial dimension of these processes. This article is aimed at proposing the theoretical approaches based on two main pillars, which can be used in studies on democratization and autocratization at the subnational levels. The first one refers to democracy and changes of political regimes (approa…
Differentiated integration
With high interdependence, politicization, and unlikely enlargement, alternative options for EU–Turkey relations beg for consideration. This article argues that, first of all, conceptualization of a new model of EU–Turkey relations must thoroughly account for the evolution of the European project away from uniformity and towards more differentiation as a result of both integration and disintegration pressures. Secondly, an extended model of exter…
De-Democratization
In this decade, we can observe a process of de-democratization in countries having experienced a political transformation, democratic consolidation, and Europeanization (Szymaski 2017)
The Position of Polish Political Elites on Future EU Enlargement
The Polish political elite favours further EU enlargement. They support to different degrees the European aspirations of individual countries. The priority is the EU enlargement eastwards and the strategic goal of the accession of Ukraine. It is argued that the Polish position on the prospects of the accession of that country to a large extent determines the attitude towards the whole process of EU enlargement. It is unlikely that this general su…
Differentiated integration
With high interdependence, politicization, and unlikely enlargement, alternative options for EU–Turkey relations beg for consideration. This article argues that, first of all, conceptualization of a new model of EU–Turkey relations must thoroughly account for the evolution of the European project away from uniformity and towards more differentiation as a result of both integration and disintegration pressures. Secondly, an extended model of exter…
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies
First survive, then thrive
This article highlights the critical yet overlooked role of subnational entities, particularly cities, in autocratisation processes. While research often emphasizes national factors, cities can act as democratic enclaves resisting autocratisation or, alternatively, facilitate authoritarian trends. The article addresses three key questions: (1) What explains democratic enclaves in cities during autocratisation? (2) How do these enclaves resist nat…
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns
This paper aims at finding out whether declining economic indicators have a relationship with the deliberate polarization of society by the AK Parti governments in Turkey. It hypothesizes that the intensification of polarization in the country is a result of deliberate actions of the incumbents to distract the attention of society from economic problems so as to expose other exploitable issues. The authors use content analysis as the main researc…
De-Democratization
In this decade, we can observe a process of de-democratization in countries having experienced a political transformation, democratic consolidation, and Europeanization (Szymaski 2017)
The Position of Polish Political Elites on Future EU Enlargement
The Polish political elite favours further EU enlargement. They support to different degrees the European aspirations of individual countries. The priority is the EU enlargement eastwards and the strategic goal of the accession of Ukraine. It is argued that the Polish position on the prospects of the accession of that country to a large extent determines the attitude towards the whole process of EU enlargement. It is unlikely that this general su…
Differentiated integration
With high interdependence, politicization, and unlikely enlargement, alternative options for EU–Turkey relations beg for consideration. This article argues that, first of all, conceptualization of a new model of EU–Turkey relations must thoroughly account for the evolution of the European project away from uniformity and towards more differentiation as a result of both integration and disintegration pressures. Secondly, an extended model of exter…
De-Democratization
In this decade, we can observe a process of de-democratization in countries having experienced a political transformation, democratic consolidation, and Europeanization (Szymaski 2017)
Podejścia teoretyczne do badania demokratyzacji i autokratyzacji na poziomie lokalnym i regionalnym
In the literature on democratization and autocratization, one of the areas which clearly shows a gap in the theoretical framework is a very important territorial dimension of these processes. This article is aimed at proposing the theoretical approaches based on two main pillars, which can be used in studies on democratization and autocratization at the subnational levels. The first one refers to democracy and changes of political regimes (approa…
New temperance movements across the cinemas of Canada
Existential health in an age of medical totalitarianism
If mental health has become a reactionary concept, much like the notion of public health in the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, then how can critical theory best elaborate a concern for well-being which includes both a psychic and social dimension? This article proposes the concept of existential health to grasp the salubrious zest for life that has been extinguished from social life since March 2020, due to rolling lockdowns and the rise of totali…
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns
This paper aims at finding out whether declining economic indicators have a relationship with the deliberate polarization of society by the AK Parti governments in Turkey. It hypothesizes that the intensification of polarization in the country is a result of deliberate actions of the incumbents to distract the attention of society from economic problems so as to expose other exploitable issues. The authors use content analysis as the main researc…
The Legislative–Executive Relations in Poland in 2019–2024
Crisis of democracy in Poland
Most current studies on the democratic or de-democratic changes in Europe have concentrated so far on the national level, while they are also important at the local and regional levels. The article is aimed at investigating: 1) changes going in either democratic or autocratic direction within the subnational structures in a state as well as 2) their relationship with similar processes at the central level - focusing on the impact of the national …
First survive, then thrive
This article highlights the critical yet overlooked role of subnational entities, particularly cities, in autocratisation processes. While research often emphasizes national factors, cities can act as democratic enclaves resisting autocratisation or, alternatively, facilitate authoritarian trends. The article addresses three key questions: (1) What explains democratic enclaves in cities during autocratisation? (2) How do these enclaves resist nat…
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)