Maciej Hartliński

University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn · Institute of Political Science

This chapter constitutes a summary report of the research described in a multi-author monograph. Its authors focus on post-communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The undertaken comparative analysis concerns party leadership in 57 parties in 10 countries. The study included formations which entered the lower chamber of parliament as a re...

The objective of this analysis is to examine political party leadership with reference to the rules and results of its selection process in post-communist Poland. The exploration of these matters is based on qualitative and quantitative data concerning 16 different political parties and 80 selections they conducted in the years 1990-2013. The compr...

Political leaders are people who successfully attract the attention of the media, citizens and researchers. Knowing the mechanisms determining their activity allows understanding the nature of politics. Paying attention to previous assertions coming from the studies on the leaders of the parties, allows drawing conclusions about the political proce...

In the history of Poland after 1989, the citizens have had an opportunity to express their opinions in nationwide referendums five times. The last and so far most interesting one took place on September 6, 2015. The circumstances in which it was ordered to be held, the choice of questions and its results will bear upon the attitude of citizens towa...

The research presented in this article is the attempt to analyse Polish parliamentary discourse concerning the European solidarity. The European solidarity is one of the greatest challenges of the second decade of the 21st century. This phenomenon can be analysed from the perspective of three dimensions: its roots in the EU treaties-as values and p...

Utterances of political leaders participating in a parliamentary debate, especially in crisis situations, are of exceptional significance. The aim of the study is to analyse positions and declarations of political leaders towards the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland as regards politicians’ speeches made in the Sejm. Quantitative and qualitative analyses...

The European migrant crisis constitutes one of the greatest challenges of the second Decade of the 21st century. Controlled by the populist Law and Justice, the Polish government has been one of the few to oppose receiving refugees, although it is obliged to through the cooperation of EU states. The authors analyzed 852 parliamentary speeches of 24...

The article is the first attempt at describing and comparing leaders of four most important populist groupings in Poland: Samoobrona, PiS, LPR, Kukiz’15. It makes three primary contributions to the literature of the subject. In its theoretical aspect, it shows that the literature concerning the analysed issue is still at the stage of being develope...

This collective monograph is an attempt to present and analyse the situation in which researchers, students and universities found themselves at the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and later until October 2021. Our main goal is to present and assess the first signs of coping with the new situation, on-line lear�ning and attempts to return to...

This study is the first attempt to diagnose political science in Poland during the pandemic. The aim of the study is to present key aspects related to changes in teaching and research in political sciences in the perspective of the pandemic. The main research questions concern two aspects: a subject-matter-related and chronological description and...

The aim of this study is to attempt to analyze Polish political parties with reference to identify how party leader selection really works. Until now, in the research on political parties and selection of party leaders in Poland the issues of “pre-selection chase” and “steering agent” have not occurred. The research questions, the course of narrati...

Rarely do twins play active and significant roles in politics. Yet in 2006 President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, designated his twin brother Jarosław to be prime minister. The aim of the current publication is to analyse the political activity of Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński in the context of the founding of PiS and its functioning. T...

The aim of this article is to analyse the role and importance of leaders in the Czech populist parties and movements, as well as determining significant factors which condition their institutionalisation. The main focus will be placed on the role of leaders in establishing their respective parties, their formal position and intraparty selection pro...

The aim of the study is to present key aspects related to changes in teaching and research in political sciences in the perspective of digitalization. The main research questions concern three aspects: Do Polish political scientists see changes related to digitalization in their approach to teaching students? Do Polish political scientists see chan...

This article is part of the special cluster titled Political Parties and Direct Democracy in Eastern Europe, guest-edited by Sergiu Gherghina. The article is the first attempt to describe and compare five nationwide referendums in Poland after 1989 as tools of direct democracy exploited by political parties. The article makes two primary contributi...

Na podstawie zebranych danych można postawić następujące tezy o teoretycznych aspektach przywództwa politycznego. Funkcjonują dwa równoważne podejścia do czynników determinujących zostanie przywódcą politycznym. Z jednej strony są to sprzyjające okoliczności czasu i miejsca, zaś z drugiej osobiste cechy i umiejętności konkretnej osoby. Zasadne jest...

This is a comparative study of the parliamentary utterances delivered by fifteen different leaders of the four main political parties in Poland (PiS, PO, PSL, SLD) on matters relating to religion in the years 1991-2015. Religion as such rarely made it into their sphere of interest, judging from the frequency of their remarks on it (62 out of total...

The research aim is to analyse the process of decision making as implemented by political leaders in the situation of low congruence of interests. Game theory indicates that in such a situation negotiation game or bargaining game is introduced. As it was shown on the basis of matrices in situations when the interests of political leaders are partly...

One of the most important aspects of academic life is cooperation between researchers from different centres. Different levels of experience, approaches and paradigms enable researchers to observe the complete image of categories. The Political Leadership Section of the Polish Political Science Association has been formed during the Second Nationwi...

The objective is to approximate the issues related to the intra-party competition for the nomination for the party candidate in elections of the President of the Republic of Poland. Both statutory prerogatives and electoral activity indicate that party leaders do not play a leading role in this regard. PiS party leader attributed only any permissio...

Szanowni Państwo, Ostatnie wydarzenia na arenie politycznej przyniosły potrzebę, także w Polsce, poszukiwania odpowiedzi na współczesne wyzwania związane kryzysami i szeroko rozumianymi problemami bezpieczeństwa państwa. Przywódcy polityczni są tymi osobami, od których w pierwszej kolejności oczekuje się zdefiniowania problemu i wskazania drogi jeg...

Security is considered to be a value especially desirable and protected ; it is the primary, elementary and fundamental need. Security treated as a precious good of subjective nature, can be seen in the following categories: individual, group, national or international. Rooting in many scientific disciplines and increasingly wider context of many b...

The study is aimed at analysing the statutes of 76 political parties and constitutes an attempt at characterising the formal position of party leaders in the structures of Polish non-parliamentary parties. Formal conditions determining leadership in non-parliamentary parties may be characterised with references to a few issues. Almost all of such p...

The dominance of PO and PiS on the Polish political and electoral scene is indisputable. Such a situation is caused by or a consequence of (which in itself is an intriguing independent research question) the supreme position of two major party leaders – Donald Tusk and Jarosław Kaczyński. Their dominant and unquestionable position in their parties...

The aim of this paper is an attempt to collect and present various approaches to the analysis of political leaders. Fifteen collective monographs published in Poland were used as a source material. In the monographs there were included 354 articles, out of which 55 texts concerned political leaders. The studiesare related to 51 politicians (11 Poli...

The authors of the book present a conception which according to them renders the essence of the current state of politics. The argument underpinning these reflections is a belief that political leaders play a crucial role in modern representative democracies. It is due to the fact that bonds between voters and political parties have abated, the mas...

Polish political scientists have been increasingly interested in political leadership. One may encounter an augmented number of studies concerning this issue. These are monographs as well as team works. Taking the latter into consideration one can identify 15 publications containing 354 articles. The analysis of their content leads to defining 5 ma...

The aim of the paper is to show tendency among researches to analysis party leadership. Overview of articles published in Party Politics help to underline key aspects of this subject. Since 1995 to 2010 only 17 articles were related to party leadership. It is 3.5 percent from 487 articles. The studies on party leadership allow us to indicate five a...

As the title suggests Thinking about Leadership is devoted to pondering on the essence of leadership. In this context, the objectives as well as motives of the leaders are addressed. Additionally, the process of forming of the leaders and reasons of their success are depicted taking into consideration personal determinants of the process and the ba...

Political leadership is a signifiant research problem in contemporary political science. research into the most important politicians has become increasingly vital. presidents, prime Ministers, and party leaders have been the center of attention of scholars as well as the media. scholarly and journalistic analyses have dealt with more and more side...

The article focuses on a concept of presidentialization. It is related to main features of presidential regime and a tendency to apply its constitutional order to political activities in parliamentary democracy. Presidentialization is connected with changes in activity and perception of contemporary politics. Presidential regime implies that s/he i...

The primary aim of the thesis is to analyse the process of party leadership development in contemporary political parties in Poland. The examination of the issue undertaken is significant and of current interest in view of the political transformations that occurred in Poland after 1989.The objective of this thesis is to focus on political parties...

The politics in its nature is a process of making decisions. This approach emphasis on political leader who is responsible for defining a situation; formulation a plan of action and mobilize followers. Especially in Africa’s context those problems are topical. Furthermore, a mosaic of cultures and religions imply wide deliberation on political lead...