Piotr Zagórski

Piotr Zagórski is a political scientist interested in electoral behavior and comparative politics, with a focus on the impact of historical legacies on electoral turnout and the effects of migration on the vote for European populist parties. In his research, he mainly uses comparative public opinion survey data and quantitative methods.

Piotr holds a PhD degree in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). He has been Adjunct Professor at UAM and post-doc in the Polish National Election Study at the SWPS University in Warsaw. He has also been involved in two H2020 research projects: RePast (investigating how European societies deal with their troubled pasts) and MICADO (facilitating exchange between different stakeholders involved in migrant integration processes and easing migrants’ access to social services through a digital solution). He has published, among others, in Government and Opposition, Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, and East European Politics and Societies.