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Strategic repositioning in the party system: The electoral success of the Polish Green Party
10 March 2022, 1:00 pm–2:30 pm
A SSEES Politics & Sociology seminar with Agnieszka Kwiatowska (SWPS University in Warsaw)
This event is free.
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The Polish Green Party (Partia Zieloni), founded in 2003, for over a decade and a half failed to gain parliamentary representation. Only recently, thanks to its effective repositioning in the party system and transitioning from the left-wing to the grand centre-right coalition, the party won its first three seats in the 2019 parliamentary election. Additionally, from 2020, as a result of an affiliation change by one left-wing Polish MEP, there is also a representative of Poland in the Green Group in the European Parliament. Dr Kwiatkowska will present the profile of the Green Party in Poland, including the ideological stance, organization and participation in elections, with a focus on explaining the path that led to the party’s electoral success. Finally, she will demonstrate the potential of the strategy of political repositioning which was made possible as a result of changes in the Polish party system following the process of de-democratization.
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About the speaker
Dr Agnieszka Kwiatkowska is a sociologist and political scientist at SWPS University, Warsaw. She researches political behaviours, transformation of social values, social movements, and political parties. She specializes in quantitative research methods in social sciences. Between 2014 and 2018, she held the position of Director for Research at the Polish Psychologists’ Association in London, UK. Currently, she is Principal Investigator on a research project “Institutionalization of political parties in the parliaments of Central Europe - data mining of parliamentary debates” (2020–2023, Opus funding scheme, provided by the National Science Centre). In this project she researches how new political issues enter political discourse, what political parties introduce these topics, which parties exert the strongest impact on other political groups, and what factors indicate a disintegration of political parties. Additionally, Dr Kwiatkowska is a researcher in a project “ULTRAGEN: Wchodzenie w dorosłość w czasach ultra-niepewności: międzypokoleniowa teoria 'rozedrganych' tranzycji” (ULTRAGEN: Entering adulthood in the era of ultra-uncertainty: intergenerational theory of “shaky” transitions).”