Neither Poland's government nor its opposition has a straightforward path toward an electoral majority. Meanwhile, personal conflict between Jarosław Kaczyński and Donald Tusk dominates the news cycle. Piotr Marczyński argues this configuration reflects the shallow roots of the Polish party system, with axes of polarisation gradually realigning along ideological lines
Piotr works in the research group Post-Truth and Political Parties, focusing on the elite use of conspiracy theories.
His doctoral project, supervised by Nathalie Brack, maps how often political parties use conspiratorial frames and why they do so.
The project is building a dataset of social media communication of partisan actors in Belgium, Denmark, Greece, and Poland.
In the project's latter stage, Piotr will conduct a series of interviews with Polish politicians to find out why they choose to use conspiratorial frames.
Piotr's broader research interests include post-truth politics, affective polarisation, and radical-right movements.
He is currently working on the co-authored research note A new logic of party competition? Measuring techno-populism in 8 European democracies.
The project introduces the ‘techno-populist index’ that captures the convergence and salience of populist and technocratic claims on the party level.
