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Piotr Zagórski

@pzag.bsky.social
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Political scientist @SWPSUniversity @UAM_Madrid @UCBerkeley Polish National Election Study / Electoral behavior / Central & Eastern Europe / populism / historical legacies / Spain / Poland

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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
3/4 It was through a combination of pro-redistribution and anti-immigrant positions – addressing a representational void on the economic axis while shifting culturally in response to the 2015 refugee crisis – that PiS succeeded in both gaining and maintaining political dominance.
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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
2/4 PiS has always positioned itself on the economic left, often further than its voters. It only shifted toward anti-immigrant positions after the 2015 refugee crisis. Prior to that, cultural incongruence – with voters more xenophobic than the party – had a negative effect on its electoral outcome.
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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
📣 Kicking off 2026 with a new article in @eepolitics.bsky.social! When do voters with left-wing economic views support populist radical right parties? Many supporters of 🇵🇱 PiS are left-authoritarians (left-wing econ & authoritarian socio-cult views)... 1/4 👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EISET...
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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
3 presents in last few days😀 Must have behaved. A chapter on electoral turnout in The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics, a paper on left-authoritarianism & far-right forthcoming in @eepolitics.bsky.social and a paper on war fatigue accepted in @jei-publication.bsky.social 🤩 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Orbán & Kaczyński associate culture with the ‘thick’ characteristics of religion, nationalism, and trad. values (‘roots’ ‘Christianity’ ‘countryside’ ‘spiritual’ and ‘civilization’). Babiš & Fico use a technical, managerial language (‘monuments’ ‘buildings’ ‘affairs’ ‘minister’ ‘digitization’). 4/4
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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Orbán & Kaczyński place great emphasis on culture. Its importance has increased for both after getting their hold on power (with a recent decrease for Orbán). Culture has never been a salient topic for Babiš. For Fico, it was only in late 2023, when his emphasis on culture increased dramatically 3/4
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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We show that the ‘thick ideological’, radical right populist governing parties of 🇭🇺 and 🇵🇱 abused culture as a vehicle for transmitting their nationalist narratives, their ‘thin populist’, technocratic 🇨🇿 and 🇸🇰 counterparts took a more pragmatic approach to cultural policy. 2/4
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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🆕📝🚨 Glad to see this one out in International Journal of Cultural Policy. With data from @authlibeu.bsky.social, we review cultural policies of 🇭🇺Orbán, 🇵🇱Kaczyński, 🇨🇿Babiš, and 🇸🇰Fico. A short thread👇 1/4 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @schaferd.bsky.social @jsuchanek.bsky.social
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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Some time before the elections, it seemed that it was about how some Poles in Pennsylvania might vote. After, it’s about how the other than white and especially Latinos voted in cities and suburbia. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
🚨New pub alert🚨 Delighted to see this out in EPSR. We show with a conjoint design in 🇪🇸 that populism attracts the young (particularly those pessimistic about their economic future) more than we tend to believe. For the old, it's immigration, for Gen Z, it's populism. Link (OA): tinyurl.com/3knypbpr
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