Magdalena Maria Solska
PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of European Studies and Slavic Studies
Rue Criblet 13
1700 Fribourg
Biography
Magdalena Solska is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Fribourg.
She currently directs the research project “Political opposition in post-communist democracies and authoritarianisms”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (PRIMA Grant) in the period of 2023-2027.
Her research focuses on political systems after communism and specifically on forms, strategies and institutionalization of opposition in selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Research and publications
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Publications
16 publications
Polarization and rule of law crisis—insights from Poland
Magdalena Solska, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (2025) | Journal articleMethods in Political Science Journals in “Eastern” Europe: Catching up with the “West” , in The Application of Political Science Methods in Europe. A Multifaceted Dilemma
Magdalena Solska, Vlastimil Havlik, Damir Kapidzic (2025) | Book chapterLitauen , in Die politischen Systeme im östlichen Europa. Institutionen, Akteure und Prozesse
Magdalena Solska, Mélody Gugelmann (2025) | Book chapterEstland , in Die politischen Systeme im östlichen Europa. Institutionen, Akteure und Prozesse
Magdalena Solska, Mélody Gugelmann (2025) | Book chapterThe Experience of Solidarity in Poland under Communist Rule and Thereafter
Magdalena Solska, sozialpolitik ch (2021) | Journal articleConservative Assertiveness in Central and Eastern Europe: Case Studies from Poland and Hungary , in Europe Thirty Years After 1989
(BRILL, 2020) | Book chapterDemocratic Erosion? One Dominant Party and Ineffective Opposition
Solska, M., Journal of Common Market Studies (2020) | Journal articleProgressive regionalist populism vs. conservative nationalist populism in Poland , in The People and the Nation
Magdalena Solska (Routledge, 2019) | Book chapterConclusion , in Illiberal and Authoritarian Tendencies in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe
Bieber, F. and Solska, M. (2019) | Book chapterCentral Europe: Regional overview , in Illiberal and Authoritarian Tendencies in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe
Solska, M. (2019) | Book chapter