Lukasz Zamecki

• PhD
• University of Warsaw

Due to Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine, 144,000 Ukrainian children enrolled in Polish schools for the 2022/2023 school year. Ukrainian schoolchildren, akin to Polish students, have the right to take the eighth grade exam and the matriculation exam, enabling further free education. Faced with the significant influx of school‐age refugee chil...

The purpose of the paper is to restudy the reasons for youth activism in Taiwan in 2014, which led to the so-called Sunflower Movement. The study is based on desk research and semi-structured interviews and expert interviews conducted by the authors, and in the framework of the Daybreak Project. Additionally the analysis on the social media posts d...

We investigate the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis on the quality and survival of democracy in a country. We start from the idea that such crises entail a risk of democratic backsliding, as governments could exploit the state of emergency to concentrate power in their own hands and derogate to democratic rules beyond the realm and past the dura...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a change in management and organisation processes both in everyday life and at work. This paper looks at the issue of remote working in Poland during the pandemic. Previously published analyses of home working in Poland concerned either changes in labour law or analysis of local administration. This paper, however, pres...

This, mainly conceptual, paper concerns the democratic backsliding process, focusing on specific and understudied actors whose actions (or non-actions) unintentionally contribute to the undertakings of autocrats or “would-be autocrats,” instead of concentrating on often analysed incumbents. The authors propose in this regard a concept of “unintenti...

As the importance of right-wing populist parties (RPPs) has grown significantly in Europe, with some even forming governments, the attendant political and policy programs are attracting greater attention. However, to date most of the relevant research has been focused on the core slogan policies of RPPs, relating to immigration and the economy. Thi...

The aim of this paper is to examine questions that have not yet been researched thoroughly: how are the positions of the RRPs on China shaping and changing, what causes such differing positions on China among these RPPs, and have there been any changes in their approach to China in the times of COVID-19? This paper aims to answer these questions by...

In the 20th century and in contemporary Hong Kong, different identities of inhabitants of the region overlap. In that article, through the prism of the attitudes manifested by Hong Kongers during football matches between HK and the PRC teams, two local identities and their evolution are distinguished. The matches until the 1980s aroused tensions on...

The Covid-19 crisis raised concerns of organisations monitoring the quality of democracy (Freedom House, V-dem Institute, EIU or Idea) that the pandemic could be used in a long term to justify the permanent strengthening of incumbents’ power leading to the weakening of democracy. The report is aimed at investigating potential threats to liberal dem...

The migration policies of the V4 countries present many similarities that seem to be the effect of congruent historical and economic determinants. During the migration crisis in 2015-2016, the Visegrad states partially coordinated their political communication using the same communication panels, which strongly impacted domestic political relations...

This paper examines developments in Poland following the 2015 elections and in Hungary since 2010, which included the gradual destruction of democratic institutions, challenges to the rule of law, as well as to the system of checks and balances. The authors consider the Ziblatt–Levitsky model (2018) as a meaningful framework for the analysis of the...

The protests breaking out in Hong Kong in 2019 were on an unprecedented scale – even for such a protest-full region; as was the activity engaged in by the police in response. And, while a direct reason for these to ensue was supplied by the HKSAR authorities’ adoption of a regulation providing for Hong Kong inhabitants’ extraditions to Mainland Chi...

The aim of this article, based on the author’s field research in Hong Kong and critical analysis of publications, is to conceptualize the process of “mainlandization” of the Hong Kong SAR. “Mainlandization” is understood here as the process of transfer and institutionalization of political visions, policy paradigms, procedures, and norms which orig...

Civil disobedience flooded Hong Kong in 2019. However, protests have changed its character since the last massive demonstrations in 2014. This article outlines direct and contextual reasons for the outbreak of protests in Hong Kong in 2019 from the perspective of Bert Klandermans’s model. The aim of the research is also to indicate the directions o...

The aim of this paper is to highlight the influence of relative deprivation (RD), observed amongst a number of Hongkongese youth, on the process of radicalization of Hong Kong politics. The thesis of this paper is that the political radicalization of youth, noticeable particularly in recent years (e.g. more violent protests, the growth of nativist...

This article reflects on the issue of legitimacy and attitudes of the young generation (16-19 years old) towards the European integration. The authors decided to divide the text into two parts, the first of which consists of the theoretical and historical approach to the problem of the legitimacy of European integration and the narrative about Euro...

Tylko wstęp. W książce podjęta została analiza „singapurskiego modelu rozwoju” i jego znaczenia w kontekście wartości kulturowych regionu wschodnioazjatyckiego. W pracy podjęta została próba odpowiedzenia na pytania: na czym polega wyjątkowość i atrakcyjność „singapurskiego modelu rozwoju”, jaka jest rola „wartości azjatyckich” w jego kształtowaniu...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the sources of the crisis of legitimacy of the EU from the perspective of the intergovernmental paradigm. The paper also focuses on the nature of this crisis and the possibilities of increasing the legitimacy of the EU. The author claims that the crisis of legitimacy is a result of the fact that there is “too much...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the sources of the crisis of legitimacy of the EU from the perspective of the intergovernmental paradigm. The paper also focuses on the nature of this crisis and the possibilities of increasing the legitimacy of the EU. The author claims that the crisis of legitimacy is a result of the fact that there is "too much...

Rola Chin w stosunkach międzynarodowych, zarówno politycznych, jak i gospodarczych rośnie. Państwo Środka jest obecnie drugą gospodarką świata i prowadzi dialog z innymi mocarstwami coraz bardziej asertywnie. Celem niniejszej publikacji jest zwrócenie uwagi na fakt, że o pozycji Zachodu w świecie w coraz większym stopniu decydują jego relacje z Chi...

Status teoretyczny nauk o polityce. Gos w dyskusji na marginesie… II Ogólnopolskiego Kongresu Politologii Niniejszy artyku powsta w efekcie polemik, przybierajcych czstokro gor-c form, o stanie polskiej nauki o polityce toczcych si w trakcie II Ogólnopol-skiego Kongresu Politologii w Poznaniu oraz wczeniejszych publikacji polskich politologów. W za...

Non-energy raw materials security is an important aspect of state security. It has an influ-ence on the social and economic development of the state. The main aim of the paper is to emphasize the theoretical paradigms, aspects, conditions and role of non-energy raw materials security. The paper refers to historical and contemporary examples (Poland...