The Editorial Board

The Polish Political Science Yearbook (PPSY) is proud to present the Editorial Board that integrates prominent scholars from different countries, institutions and academic traditions.

Editor-in-Chief

• Professor Joanna Marszałek-Kawa (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

• Professor Joanna Starzyk-Sulejewska (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Chairman of the Board

• Professor Arkadiusz Żukowski (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)

Honorary Chairman of the Board

• Professor Krzysztof Pałecki (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Editorial Board

• Professor Andrzej Antoszewski (University of Wrocław, Poland)
• Professor Jacob Bielasiak (Indiana University in Bloomington, the United States)
• Professor Tadeusz Bodio (University of Warsaw, Poland)
• Professor Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley, the United States)
• Professor Szymon Mitkow (Military University of Technology, Poland)
• Professor Vladimira Dvořáková (University of Economics in Prague, the Czech Republic)
• Professor Jørgen Elklit (Aarhus University, Denmark)
• Professor Jon Elster (Columbia University, the United States)
• Professor Miro Haček (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Professor Stig Hjarvard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Professor Bogusław Jagusiak (Military University of Technology, Poland)
• Professor Boglárka Koller (University of Public Service, Hungary)
• Professor Richard Ned Lebow (King's College London, the United Kingdom)
• Professor Colin Mackeras (Griffith University, Australia)
• Professor Irmina Matonyte (ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania)
• Professor Monika Nalepa (University of Chicago, the United States)
• Professor Pablo Oñate (University of Valencia, Spain)
• Professor Werner J. Patzelt (Technical University Dresden, Germany)
• Professor Gerald Schneider (University of Konstanz, Germany)
• Professor Rein Taagepera (University of Tartu, Estonia)
• Professor İlter Turan (Istanbul Biligi University, Turkey)
• Professor Marcin Górnikiewicz (Military University of Technology, Poland)
• Professor Tadeusz Wallas (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
• Professor Jarosław Nocoń (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
• Professor Joanna Rak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
• Professor Stanisław Sulowski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
• Professor Bernard Wiśniewski (WSB University, Poland)
• Professor Alexander Wöll (Viadrina European University, Germany)

Section Editors

• Comparative Politics: Professor Przemysław Żukiewicz (University of Wrocław, Poland)
• Constitutional Law: Professor Marek Chmaj (University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland)
• Development Studies: Professor Maciej Walkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
• International Relations: Professor Marcin Grabowski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
• Legal Studies: Professor Sabina Grabowska (University of Rzeszów, Poland)
• Political & Electoral Systems: Professor Robert Alberski (University of Wrocław, Poland)
• Political Communication: Professor Iwona Hofman (Maria Skłodowska-Curie University in Lublin, Poland)
• Political Psychology: Professor Agnieszka Turska-Kawa (University of Silesia, Poland)
• Political Theory: Professor Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)
• Political Thought: Professor Tomasz Czapiewski (University of Szczecin, Poland)
• Polish & Central European Politics: Professor Maciej Hartliński (University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland)
• Public Policy & Governance: Professor Jolanta Itrich-Drabarek (University of Warsaw, Poland)
• Security Studies: Agnieszka Miarka, PhD (University of Silesia, Poland)

Editors

• Secretaries of the Board:
  • Professor Agnieszka Szpak (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
  • Ewa Kołodziejska, PhD (Asia-Pacific Society, Poland)
  • Marcin Tobiasz, PhD (University of Warsaw, Poland)
• Advising Editor: Patryk Wawrzyński, PhD (University of Szczecin, Poland)
• Editors:
  • Sascha-Dominik Bachmann, PhD (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom)
  • Rafał Dudała, PhD (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)
  • Mateusz Mazzini (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
• Book Reviews Editor: Ewa Kołodziejska, PhD (Asia-Pacific Society, Poland)
• Proofreading: William Benjamin, Jakub Kułaczkowski
• Technical Composition and Typesetting: Tomasz Czapski

With these words of Mark Antony – as a motto – Patryk Wawrzyński could start his book. Published in 2012, the work is titled, President Lech Kaczynski. The unfinished narratives (Prezydent Lech Kaczyński. Narracje niedokończone), and it is just such an attempt of doing justice to the tragically deceased president of the Republic of Poland. The author has undertaken the task of presenting the views of Lech Kaczynski as they actually were – separating them from incorrect interpretations and opinions attributed by other actors of the Polish political scene: his opponents as well as allies. The book presents what the president actually said and wrote, and not his image created in the minds of contemporaries. This also means that it is concerned not with the president’s actions, but his own narratives. The author points out, however – in accordance with the approach of social constructivism – that these narratives affect political reality. Wawrzyński suggests considering Kaczynski’s own words as part of a transmission belt “between national culture and the international community.” This allows the author to illustrate “how cultural narratives, unique to given countries, are transferred – through the political behaviour of its leaders – to the international level and universalized in order to be understood independently from the particular heritage”.

Understanding cultural patterns and meaning of symbols, that show academics from George H. Mead, through Ruth Benedict, to Cliff ord Geertz, enable the cognition of human behavior and disquisition on its social importance. Commonness and universality of the cultural studies prove that the Humanities’ center of gravity moved from describing the natural and material to explaining the cultural and inter-subjective.

Book Review: Joanna Marszałek-Kawa, Anna Ratke-Majewska & Patryk Wawrzyński, Polityka pamięci i kształtowanie tożsamości politycznej w czasie tranzycji postautorytarnej. Analiza porównawcza (Tom 2). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Difin 2016 (pp. 167). ISBN 978-83-8085-209-9. Price: 50.00 PLN.