Washington and Lee University
Due for sabbatical in 2010-11Krzysztof Jasiewicz, a native of Poland, received his MA in Sociology at Warsaw University (1972) and his Ph.D. at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1976, also in Sociology). He has taught and/or held fellowships at Warsaw U., Harvard, Oxford, UCLA, and the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, among others. He has published extensively on elections, voting behaviour, party systems, and political attitudes in Poland and other Central European states. Recently, his articles appeared in the Journal of Democracy, East European Politics and Societies, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and European Journal of Political Research.
M.A.: Warsaw University, 1972
Ph.D.: Polish Academy of Sciences, 1976
Research Interests: political sociology; elections and voting behavior; post-communism; Polish politics
Sociology 376 (Politics 376) Seminar in Survey Data Analysis
Sociology 246 (Politics 246) Post-Communism and New Democracies
Sociology 245 (Politics 245) European Politics and Society
Sociology 225 Peoples of Central Europe
"'The Past Is Never Dead:' Identity, Class, and Voting Behavior in Contemporary Poland" East European Politics and Societies, v 23 n 4, Fall 2009
“Poland” in: Political Parties of the World, Seventh Edition, Darren Sagar (ed.), London: John Harper 2009
“Wzlot i upadek nowego populizmu w Polsce” [The Rise and Fall of the New Populism in Poland], in: Radosław Markowski (ed.) Wybory 2005 i 2007 roku [The 2005 and 2007 Elections], Warsaw: ISP PAN (forthcoming, in Polish)
“The (Not Always Sweet) Uses of Opportunism: Post-Communist Political Parties in Poland” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, v 41 n 4, December 2008
“The New Populism in Poland: The Usual Suspects?” Problems of Post-Communism, v 55 n 3, May-June 2008
“Poland: Party System by Default” in: P. Webb and S. White (eds.) Party Politics in New Democracies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
“Citizens and Politics,” chapter 12 in S. White, J. Batt, and P. G. Lewis (eds.) Developments in Central and East European Politics 4, Basingstoke, UK, and New York: Palgrave, 2007; U.S. edition: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007
“Is Central Europe Backsliding? The Political-Party Landscape” Journal of Democracy v 18 n 4, October 2007
“Poland: A Young Democracy” in W. Phillips Shively (ed.) Comparative Governance, Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill, Primis Online (with David S. Mason; revised and updated in 2007)
“Poland” in Encyclopædia Britannica Online (revised and updated in 2007)
The 1991-1993 Elections to the Polish Sejm: Analyses, Documents and Data, co-editor and co-author (with R. Markowski), Berlin: Edition Sigma, 2006
“Knocking on Europe’s Door: Public Opinion on the EU Accession Referendum in Poland” in: R. Rohrschneider and S. Whitefield (eds.) Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, 2006.
“Polska u progu Unii Europejskiej” [Poland at the European Union Doorsteps], in: Radosław Markowski (ed.) Populizm a demokracja [Populism and Democracy], Warsaw: ISP PAN, 2004 (in Polish)
“Pocketbook or Rosary? Economic and Identity Voting in 2000-2001 Elections in Poland,” Studies in Public Policy, Number 379, Glasgow: University of Strathclyde, 2003
“Eurosceptycyzm, euroentuzjazm, euroapatia” [Euro-skepticism, Euro-enthusiasm, Euroapathy], in: Lena Kolarska-Bobińska (ed.) Przed referendum europejskim [Before the European Referendum], Warsaw: ISP, 2003 (in Polish)
“Czyj prezydent, czyj parlament? Wartości i interesy a zachowania wyborcze w 2000 i 2001 roku” [Whose President, Whose Parliament? Values, Interests, and Voting Behavior in the 2000 and 2001 Elections], Studia Polityczne No. 13/2002 (in Polish)
“Polskie wybory” [Polish Elections] in: Dziesięciolecie Polski Niepodległej, 1989-1999 [The Tenth Anniversary of the Independent Poland, 1989-1999], Warsaw: United Publishers and Productions, 2001 (in Polish)
“Dead Ends and New Beginnings: The Quest for a Procedural Republic in Poland” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, v 33 n 1, February 2000
Entries on Poland to the Political Data Yearbook, special issues of the European Journal of Political Research, annually since 1991
