My new book with Ben Stanley on illiberalism in Poland has arrived with @stanfordpress. We look at the successes and failures of the Law and Justice (PiS) party as a leading example of the evolving global challenges to liberal democracy.
European elections in Poland see the country almost evenly divided between pro-European and Eurosceptic/"Eurorealist" forces.
KO, TD, Lewica (also current ruling coalition in Poland): 50% of vote; 27 seats.
PiS, Konfederacja (opposition parties): 48% of vote; 26 seats.
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature - edited by Tomasz Bilczewski, Magdalena Popiel, and myself - is now available in a paperback edition.
The book features interpretations of key works across the history of Polish literature from medieval song to Olga Tokarczuk.
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As PiS falls in polling, there may be a hard baseline of support below which it can't drop. But with current radical tactics, Kaczyński seems intent on testing where this low might be. Many PiS-adjacent voices criticizing his approach, but will cracks open in the party itself?