a political scientist, journalist, professor at the Kraków University of Economics, and contributor to two magazines, Tygodnik Powszechny and Nowa Konfederacja.

He is the author of “Rywalizacja polityczna w Polsce (“Political Rivalry in Poland”), co-author of “Wybory 2014–2015 a przemiany elit politycznych Trzeciej Rzeczpospolitej” (“The 2014–2015 Elections and the Transformation of the Political Elites of the Third Republic”), as well as the 2018 political essay “Wyjście awaryjne. O zmianie wyobraźni politycznej” (“Emergency Exit: Of Changes in the Political Imagination”), a discussion of the political situation after the Law and Justice party came to power in 2015.