Krzysztof Jasiewicz
Professor
Sociology
Washington & Lee University
United States of America
Biography
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. His recent publications include articles 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, as well as chapters in edited volumes, in English, Polish, and French.
Research Interest
Political sociology; elections and voting behavior; post-communism; Polish politics
Publications
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"Poland" in: Nations in Transit 2012: Democratization from Central Europe to Eurasia, New York, Washington: Freedom House; Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers 2012, pp. 411-430.
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“Citizens and Politics,†chapter 12 in S. White, J. Batt, and P. G. Lewis (eds.) Developments in Central and East European Politics Five, Basingstoke, UK, and New York: Palgrave, 2013; U.S. edition: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013, pp. 204-227.
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“Whither Eastern Europe? Changing Approaches and Perspectives on the Region in Political Science†East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 29: 311-322.
