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Prof Aleks Szczerbiak

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Post:Professor of Politics and Contemporary European Studies
Location:Friston Building FR-222
Email:A.A.Szczerbiak@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:8443 or
8578
UK:(01273) 678443 or
(01273) 678578
International:+44 1273 678443 or
+44 1273 678578

Biography

Sussex European Institute (SEI) Co-Director

Qualifications

BA (Sheffield) MSc PhD (London)

Teaching

Politics of Governance: Eastern Europe (Second Year Politics Major option course)
Political Change: Eastern Europe in Transition (Final Year Politics Major option course)
Politics of Eastern Europe in Transition (MA option course)

Professional activities

  • Co-convenor (with Paul Taggart) of the 'European Parties Elections and Referendums Network'.
  • Associate Editor and Reviews Editor, Party Politics journal
  • Editorial Board member, Journal of Common Market Studies
  • Editorial Advisory Board member, Perspectives on European Politics and Society journal
  • Convenor, PSA Specialist Group on Communist and Post-Communist Politics, 1999-2002
  • Associate Director, ESRC 'One Europe Or Several' Programme, 2001-2003
  • Main Prize Winner, 2004 PSA Sir Bernard Crick Awards for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science
  • Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of Institutional Affairs European Programme 2002-2007
  • Advisory Committee member, European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) Observatory on Political Parties and Representation, 2009-present

Research

  • Central and East European politics
  • Political parties and electoral politics
  • Contemporary Polish politics and society
  • The impact of European integration on domestic politics
  • The politics of lustration and de-communisation

 

Publications

Single authored monographs

  • "Poles Together? The Emergence and Development of Political Parties in Post-Communist Poland", Central European University Press, 2001.

 

Edited books

  • (with Paul Taggart), ed. Choosing Union: The 2003 EU Accession Referendums: Special Issue of West European Politics, September 2004
  • (with Sean Hanley), ed. Centre-Right Parties in Post-Communist East-Central Europe: Special Issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, September 2004
  • (with Paul Taggart), ed. EU Enlargement and Referendums, Routledge, 2005
  • (with Sean Hanley) ed, Centre-Right Parties in Post-Communist East-Central Europe, Routledge, 2006
  • (with Paul Taggart), ed. Opposing Europe: The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism in Contemporary Europe. Volume One: Case Studies and Country Surveys, Oxford University Press 2008
  • (with Paul Taggart) ed. Opposing Europe: The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism in Contemporary Europe. Volume Two: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2008
  • (with Sean Hanley) ed. Europe's New Centre-Right: ComparativePerspectives: Special Issue of Party Politics, July 2008

 

Articles in refereed journals

  • "Electoral Politics in Poland: The Parliamentary Elections of 1997", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol 14 No 3, September 1998
  • "The Impact of the October 1998 Local Elections on the Emerging Polish Party System", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol 15 No 3, September 1999
  • "Testing Party Models in East-Central Europe: Local Party Organization in Post-communist Poland", Party Politics, Vol 5 No 4, October 1999
  • "Interests and Values: Polish Political Parties and their Electorates", Europe-Asia Studies, Vol 51 No 8, December 1999
  • "Testing Party Models in East-Central Europe: Local Party Organization in Post-communist Poland", Studia Polityczne, No10, 2000
  • "Polish Public Opinion: Explaining Declining Support for EU Membership," Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol 39 No 1, March 2001
  • "The New Polish Parties as Membership Organisations," Contemporary Politics, Vol 7 No 1, March 2001
  • "Party Structure and Organisation in Post-Communist Poland", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, June 2001.
  • "The Polish Peasant Party: A Mass Party in Post-Communist Eastern Europe," East European Politics and Societies, Fall 2001
  • "Polish Parties and the Media: the Politics of Broadcasting in Post-Communist Poland", Wroclawskie Studia Politologiczne, November 2001.
  • "Cartelisation in Post-Communist Politics? State Party Funding in Post-1989 Poland", Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol 2 No 3, December 2001.
  • "Explaining Kwasniewski's Landslide: The October 2000 Polish Presidential Election", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol 17 No 4, December 2001.
  • (with Dr Paul Taggart) "Europeanisation, Euroscepticism and Party Systems: Party-based Euroscepticism in the Candidate States of Central and Eastern Europe," Perspectives in European Politics and Society, Vol 3 No 1, April 2002.
  • "Dealing with the Communist Past or Politics of the Present? Lustration in Post-Communist Poland," Europe-Asia Studies, Vol 52 No 4, June 2002.
  • 'Poland's Unexpected Political Earthquake: the September 2001 Parliamentary Election', Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol 18 No 3, September 2002.
  • 'Old and New Divisions in Polish Politics: Polish Parties' Electoral Strategies and Profiles,' Europe-Asia Studies, July 2003
  • "Civilised Lustration? Evaluating the Polish Model", Studia Polityczne, Vol 14, 2003
  • (with Paul Taggart) 'Contemporary Euroscepticism in the Party System of the EU Candidate States of Central and Eastern Europe', European Journal of Political Research, January 2004
  • 'Polish Euroscepticism on the Eve of the Accession', European Studies, January/February 2004
  • (with Paul Taggart) 'Introduction: Choosing Union: The 2003 EU Accession Referendums', West European Politics, September 2004 (Winner of 2004 Vincent Wright Prize for Best Article Published in West European Politics)
  • 'History Trumps Government Unpopularity: The June 2003 Polish EU Accession Referendum', West European Politics, September 2004
  • (with Paul Taggart) 'Conclusion: Towards a Model of (European) Referendums', West European Politics, September 2004
  • (with Sean Hanley) 'Understanding the Politics of the Right in Contemporary East-Central Europe', Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, September 2004
  • 'The Polish Centre-Right's (Last) Best Hope: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity Electoral Action', Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, September 2004
  • (with Kieran Williams and Brigid Fowler) 'Explaining Lustration in Central Europe: a post-communist politics' approach', Democratization, Fenruary 2005
  • 'State Party Funding and Patronage in Post-1989 Poland', Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, September 2006
  • "Social Poland" Defeats "Liberal Poland"? The September/October 2005 Polish Parliamentary and Presidential Elections, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, June 2007
  • (with Sean Hanley, Tim Haughton and Brigid Fowler) "Sticking together: Explaining Comparative Centre-Right Party Success in Post- Communist Central and Eastern Europe," Party Politics, July 2008
  •  (with Tim Bale) "Why is there no Christian Democracy in Poland - and so why should we care?" Party Politics, July 2008
  • "The birth of a bi-polar party system or a referendum on a polarising government? The October 2007 Polish parliamentary election," Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, September 2008
  • (with Monika Bil) "When in doubt, (re-)turn to domestic politics? The non-impact of the EU on Polish party politics", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, December 2009

 

Chapters in edited books

  • "Spadek i stabilizacja. Zmieniajace sie wzorce poparcia dla czlonkostwa w Unii Europejskiej," (Decline and Stabilisation: Changing Patterns of Support for EU membership in Poland) in Ewa Poplawska, ed. Konstytucja dla rozszerzajacej sie Europy (A Constitution for an Expanding Europe), Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, 2000
  • "The 'Professionalisation' of Party Campaigning in Post-Communist Poland", in Paul Lewis (ed) Party Development and Democratic Change in Post-Communist Europe, 2001.
  • "Polish Politics in the New Millenium" in George Blazyca and Ryszard Rapacki (eds) Poland into the New Millenium, 2001.
  • 'Cartelisation in Post-Communist Politics: State Party Funding in Post-1989 Poland,' in Paul Lewis and Paul Webb (eds) Pan-European Perspectives on Party Politics, 2003
  • (with Paul Taggart) 'Europeanisation, Euroscepticism and Party Systems: Party-based Euroscepticism in the Candidate States of Central and Eastern Europe,' in Paul Lewis and Paul Webb (eds) Pan-European Perspectives on Party Politics, 2003
  • "Approaching the Endgame: Polish Public Opinion and the Changing Euro-Debate in the Run up to the 2003 EU Accession Referendum" in Frank Columbus (ed) European Economic and Political Issues Volume 7, 2003
  • "Eastern Europe" in Maurice Kogan and Mary Hawkesworth (eds) Routledge Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2003
  • "Chaos out of Order? Polish Parties Electoral Strategies and Bases of Support" in George Kolankiewicz and Tomasz Zarycki (eds) Regional Issues in Polish Politics, SSEES Occational Papers, 2003
  • (with Paul Taggart) 'Supporting the Union? Euroscepticism and Domestic Politics of European Integration' in Desmond Dinan and Maria Green Cowles, Developments in European Union Politics, 2nd edition, 2004
  • "Poland", in Juliet Lodge, ed. 2004 Elections to the European Parliament, Palgrave Macmillian, 2005
  • (with Paul Taggart) "Introduction: Choosing Union: The 2003 EU Accession Referendums" in Aleks Szczerbiak and Paul Taggart, eds. EU Enlargements and Referendums, Routledge, 2005
  • "History Trumps Government Unpopularity: The June 2003 Polish EU Accession Referendum", in Aleks Szczerbiak and Paul Taggart, eds. EU Enlargement and Referendums, Routledge, 2005
  • (with Paul Taggart) "Conclusion: Towards a Model of (European) Referendums", in Aleks Szczerbiak and Paul Taggart, eds. EU Enlargement and Referendums, Routledge, 2005
  • (with Sean Hanley) 'Understanding the Politics of the Right in Contemporary East-Central Europe' in Sean Hanley and Aleks Szczerbiak, eds, Centre-Right Parties in Post-Communist East-Central Europe, Routledge, 2006
  • 'The Polish Centre-Right's (Last) Best Hope: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity Electoral Action' in Sean Hanley and Aleks Szczerbiak, eds, Centre-Right Parties in Post-Communist East-Central Europe, Routledge, 2006
  • "Power without Love: Patterns of Party Politics in Post-1989 Poland' in Susanne Jungerstam-Mulders, ed. Post-Communist EU Member States: Parties and Party Systems, Ashgate, 2006
  • "State Party Funding and Patronage in post-1989 Poland," in Petr Kopecky, ed. Political Parties and the State in Post-Communist Europe, Routledge, 2007.
  • (with Paul Taggart) "The Politics of Euroscepticism in Europe", in Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak, eds. Opposing Europe: The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism in Europe. Volume One: Case Studies and Country Surveys, Oxford University Press, 2008
  •  "Opposing Europe or Problematising Europe? Euroscepticism and 'Eurorealism in the Polish Party System" in Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak, eds. Opposing Europe: The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism in Contemporary Europe. Volume One: Case Studies and Country Surveys, Oxford University Press, 2008
  • (with Paul Taggart) "Opposing Europe? Three Patterns of Party Competition Over Europe," in Paul Taggart and and Aleks Szczerbiak, eds. Opposing Europe: The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism in Contemporary Europe. Volume One: Case Studies and Country Surveys, Oxford University Press, 2008
  • (with Paul Taggart) "Researching Euroscepticism in European Party Systems: A Comparative and Theoretical Research Agenda," in Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak, eds. Opposing Europe: The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism in Contemporary Europe. Volume Two: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2008
  • (with Paul Taggart) "Theorising Party-Based Euroscepticism: Problems of Definition, Measurement and Causality," in Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak, eds. Opposing Europe: The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism in Contemporary Europe. Volume Two: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2008

 

Working Papers

 

Briefing papers/short articles

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