Jolanta Itrich-Drabarek is a political scientist and professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Marzena Cichosz is a political scientist, researcher and professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Wrocław, Poland. Danuta Plecka is a professor at the University of Gdańsk, Poland, and is editor of the series Demokracja w Polsce po . . . [Democracy in Poland after . . .] (2005, 2007 and 2015). Anna Jach is a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She works at the Department of Eurasian Area Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.