Chair in Contemporary Political Transformations
The area of research interests
The transformation of the political systems of Central and East-Central European countries, with particular emphasis on former Yugoslavian countries and the political system of the Republic of Poland.
The transformation of political movements and the relationship between religion and politics in the contemporary world.
Polish political system after 1989, political and economic transformation in Poland, Polish party system, comparative analysis of Polish parliamentary system, the judiciary as an element of the political system.
Contact details
Address of the Chair: ul Mickiewicza 3/ room No. 319
e-mail: ewa.bujwid-kurek@uj.edu.pl
Mail should be sent to the following address:
Instytutu Nauk Politycznych i Stosunków Międzynarodowych
ul. Jabłonowskich 5
31-114 Kraków
Head of the Chair: prof. Ewa Bujwid-Kurek, PhD
Position: professor
Research interests:
Main areas of research interest focus on contemporary problems of East-Central European countries, with particular emphasis on former Yugoslavian countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo).
Jacek Sokołowski, PhD
Head of the Centre for Quantitative Research in Political Science JU
Position: assistant professor
Research interests:
Born in 1975, in 2000 graduated in Law at the Jagiellonian University, in 2005 obtained his doctorate degree from Heidelberg University and has been working both as a lawyer and as an academic ever since. Interests: law-making processes from an empirical perspective, behavioural patterns of parliamentary groups the judiciary as an element of the political system. The author of, among other things, Wybrane aspekty funkcjonowanie Sejmu w latach 1997-2007 and a co-creator of ISQAL database system for the quantitative analysis of parliamentary activity.
Publications and more information
Wiktor Hebda, PhD
Position: assistant lecturer with a doctor's degree
Research interests:
Wiktor Hebda Ph.D. is an Assistant at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University. He defended a Ph.D. dissertation Serbian-Croatian political relations at the turn of XX and XXI century in 2017 (under supervision of Prof. Ewa Bujwid-Kurek).