Agnieszka Kwiatkowska is a sociologist and political scientist, working at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland.

Previously, she was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (2023–2024) and Director of Research at the Polish Psychologists’ Association (2014–2018). She is a member of the Executive Board of the Political Sociology Section of the Polish Sociological Association.

Her research focuses on political behaviour, political representation, and public discourse, with particular interest in how political elites and citizens respond to processes of democratic backsliding in contemporary Europe. Her work lies at the intersection of political sociology, comparative politics, and political communication, combining advanced quantitative methods with computational text analysis and qualitative approaches.

She has worked as principal investigator or researcher on numerous research projects funded by the National Science Centre, international foundations, and public institutions. In her current research project DEMRES. The Effectiveness of Discursive Strategies of Democratic Backsliding and Democratic Resilience (National Science Centre OPUS, 2025–2030), she examines the discursive strategies employed by populist and anti-populist actors in Europe. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, including Democratization, European Societies, Acta Sociologica, and Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. Beyond academia, she collaborates with non-governmental organisations, public institutions, and the media, disseminating research findings and contributing them to public debate.

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Contact: agn.kwiatkowska@swps.edu.pl.