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Agnieszka Kwiatkowska

SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities

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About

I work as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw (Poland). Previously, I taught in the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, where I obtained my PhD in July 2011. My research focuses on how issues raised by social movements are politicized and introduced into parliamentary competition, becoming determinants of political behaviours. I analyse political preferences and behaviours, social movements and political parties, as well as parliamentary speeches and voting. I have taken part in dozens of research and evaluation projects, in cooperation with academic, non-governmental and business organizations, think-tanks and the media, including London Metropolitan University, Place2Be, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, The Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, Adam Smith Centre, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, the Sobieski Institute, and the European Commission. Currently, I am a Principal Investigator in research projects: 1) Institutionalization of political parties in the parliaments of Central Europe - data mining of parliamentary debates, Funding: National Science Centre. The research objective is an analysis of institutionalization of political parties since the democratic transition in five Central European countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia and Hungary) as reflected in parliamentary discourse and voting. The goal will be accomplished using a set of data mining methods of analysis of textual (parliamentary debates) and numerical (roll-call voting) data on an innovative database which will be created in the project. 2) Polarization and unanimity in Central Europe after the democratic transition - analysis of legislative voting, Funding: National Science Centre. The project aims at creating a cross-referencing database collating legislative voting results and socio-political data in seven Central and Eastern European parliaments (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Lithuania and Romania), 3) together with Michał Kotnarowski, I am a Polish co-investigator in the Issue Competition Comparative Project (ICCP) - Poland, which is a comparative, international social science research project about party competition.

Research Interests

Europe (Central and Eastern), Civil Society, Cleavages, Comparative Politics, Contentious Politics, Democracy, Elections, Elites, Gender, Green Politics, Parliaments, Party Manifestos, Political Participation, Political Parties, Social Movements, Coalition, Party Members, Electoral Behaviour, Mixed Methods, Narratives, Party Systems, Political Activism, Political Ideology, Public Opinion, Voting Behaviour, Activism, Big Data, Youth