S07E09: Maciej Kisilows­ki on the Pol­ish Elections 

This episode explores Poland’s recent elec­tion results and their sig­nif­i­cance as a turn­ing point in democ­ra­cy in Poland. Will this elec­tion mark the end of an illib­er­al peri­od in the coun­try? And might it be the start of a pro­gres­sive wave sweep­ing across Europe? Lis­ten to hear an analy­sis of the results and the polit­i­cal impli­ca­tions for both Poland and Europe.

Guest fea­tured in this episode:

Maciej Kisilows­ki works at the Cen­tral Euro­pean Uni­ver­si­ty where he estab­lished and direct­ed the exec­u­tive MBA pro­gram. He holds doc­tor­ates in law, both from Yale and from War­saw Uni­ver­si­ty, as well as degrees in eco­nom­ics and pub­lic pol­i­cy from Prince­ton and INSEAD.
His main research focus is on the appli­ca­tion of inno­va­tion strat­e­gy to non­mar­ket fields, includ­ing reg­u­la­tion and pub­lic law. Kisikows­ki has also been involved in projects at the inter­sec­tion of strat­e­gy and gov­er­nance, such as The Social Con­tract Incu­ba­tor in Poland, which he co- found­ed. He has been and still is reg­u­lar­ly con­sult­ed by gov­ern­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions, pro­gres­sive polit­i­cal par­ties, busi­ness­es and advo­ca­cy groups.
Maciej is the author and edi­tor of sev­er­al books, of which let me men­tion only one, “Admin­is­trat­e­gy”[i] – a mix of admin­is­tra­tion and strat­e­gy – has been trans­lat­ed into five lan­guages. Fur­ther­more, he is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Project Syn­di­cate, Los Ange­les Times, The Wall Street Jour­nal, Politi­co, Haaretz and the Ger­man Verfassungsblog.