Articles by Agnieszka Pawłowska

September 8, 2025

🦋 Plain democracy: reclaiming fundamentals in an age of democratic erosion

Agnieszka Pawłowska
In the current climate of populist narratives, citizens need a clear message about democracy. Agnieszka Pawłowska draws inspiration from the notion of plain language. Here, she proposes that citizens should be provided with plain democracy, which would empower them to recognise, understand, and use the fundamentals of democracy
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Agnieszka Pawłowska
Professor, Institute of Political Science and Security Studies, University of Rzeszów

Agnieszka is a graduate of the University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin, where she completed her graduate studies in Political Science and History.

She was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California, Irvine and a fellow of the Kościuszko Foundation at Arizona State University.

Her research centres on collaborative and local governance, political accountability, local democracy, comparative local government, and partnerships in the public sector.

She is currently leading a project on the accountability of local authorities in Poland.

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Role sets of advisory councils in local policymaking process: The perspective of council members. Policy Studies, 45(6), 860–882.

From Advice and Consultation to Local Co-governance: the Case of Advisory Councils in Polish Cities. Lex Localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 20(1), 55–76.

Beyond Advising: The Representative Role of Advisory Councils (The Case of Polish Cities). Polish Political Science Review, 10(1), 59-82.

Local advisory councils in deliberative decision-making. Findings from research in Polish cities. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 30(2).

Accountability of Local Authorities. The report and debate on the state of a municipality as a tool for accountability

Social Councils and Committees as (Not Quite) Present Actors in Local Decision-Making Process
Scholar Publishing House, 2021

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