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Let's Agree on Poland is a bold, cross-partisan proposal for a constitutional response to growing polarization and democratic crisis. Blending legal, political, and economic analysis with storytelling to spark constitutional imagination, the book vividly illustrates how the system it envisions would work in practice.
List of contents
- Introduction: A Polarized Country in Need of a New Social Contract
- PART I. AGREED.
- 1: Antoni Dudek, Maciej Kisilowski, and Anna Wojciuk: The Republic of Our Dreams
- 2: Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak, Jacek Giedrojc, and Anna Wojciuk: Harmony by Choice
- 3: Maciej Bukowski, Mikolaj Herbst, and Tomasz Kaczor: Poland of Equal Opportunities
- 4: Maciej Kisilowski and Wojciech Przybylski: Center Strong with Strategy
- 5: Ryszard Balicki, Jaroslaw Gwizdak, and Fryderyk Zoll: Return to Democracy
- 6: Miroslaw Granat, Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse, Arkadiusz Radwan, and Jacek Sokolowski: Strengthening Democracy
- Comment: Reimagining the Polish Constitution by Looking to the Past
- Comment: Winding Road to Democracy
- PART II. WE ARE DIFFERENT.
- 7: Maciej Kisilowski and Anna Wojciuk: Why Imagine the New Contract?
- 8: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Pawel Dobrowolski, and Ziemowit Szczerek: The Dream Progressive Voivodship
- 9: Jakub Drodz, Sylwia Sysko-Romanczuk, Marta Kwasnicka: The Dream Conservative Voivodship
- 10: Alicja Pacewicz, Jan Smolenski, Michal Zabicki, and Sylwia Chutnik: The Dream Leftist Voivodship
- 11: Lukasz Rozdeiczer, Artur Wolek, and Karolina Lewestam: The Dream Christian Democratic Voivodship
- 12: Leszek Stypulkowski, Marek Tatala, Marcin Zielinski, and Piotr Siemion: The Dream Classical Liberal Voivodship
- Comment: A European Dream about Polish Dreams
- Comment: For a Strong Poland, United in its Diversity
- 13: Antoni Dudek, Maciej Kisilowski, and Anna Wojciuk: Let's Do It Differently
About the author
Maciej Kisilowski is an Associate Professor of Law and Strategy at Central European University in Vienna. His research spans public law, management, and political economy. His academic work has appeared in
Business and Society and Law and Social Inquiry, among others. He holds a JSD and LLM from Yale Law School, an MPA from Princeton, and an MBA from INSEAD. His commentary on populism, democracy, and the rule of law has been featured in
Project Syndicate, The Financial Times, Politico, and leading Austrian and Polish media outlets.
Anna Wojciuk is an Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, specializing in international relations with a focus on populist foreign policy. Her work has appeared in
Review of International Studies, Chinese Journal of International Politics, and
European Political Science. In 2018, she published the book
Empires of Knowledge in International Relations with Routledge. She was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the EUI(2017/18, 2024) and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and Sciences Po. She also contributes to leading media outlets, including
Foreign Policy and
Politico.
