| Imię i nazwisko |
Edit Zgut-Przybylska
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| Stopnie i tytuły naukowe |
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| Stanowisko |
adiunkt
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| E-mail |
ezgut@ifispan.edu.pl
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| Filozofia/Socjologia |
Socjologia
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| Zakład |
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| Zespół badawczy |
Zespół Studiów Europejskich
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| Skrócony biogram |
Dr. Edit Zgut-Przybylska is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Philosophy at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Research Fellow at CEU Democracy Institute. She received her PhD in Sociology, holds an MA in Political Science and graduated as a journalist. Her research interest covers informality, populism, democratic innovations, euroscepticism and democratic backsliding. Her recent publications appeared with Pelgrave Macmillan, Problems of Post-Communism, the European Politics and Society and the Hague Journal for the Rule of Law. Synthetic versions of her work are available in online platforms as Foreign Policy, POLITICO Europe, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and Visegrad Insight. Edit held a re:consitution fellowship 2022-2023, a Rethink.CEE fellowship at GMFUS and a fellowship at Visegrad Insight. She previously worked at Political Capital Research Institute and before that, she was a journalist at various media outlets in Hungary.
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| Wykształcenie |
● PhD in sociology, Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2022
● MA in political science, Eötvös Loránd Science University, 2009
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| Doświadczenie zawodowe |
● Assistant professor at IFIS PAN
● Visiting fellow at CEU Democracy Institute 2023–Present
● Member of the European Studies Unit, IFIS PAN, Warsaw — 2019–Present
● Project manager at NATOversity, Center for Europe at the University of Warsaw — 2019-2020
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| Pełnione funkcje w organizacjach, towarzystwach i gremiach naukowych |
- ● Board member of Amnesty International Hungary, Budapest — 2022–Present
- ● Research Fellow at Unhack Democracy, 2022
- ● Analyst on Poland, Eurasia Group, Warsaw — 2019–2020
- ● Consultant on Democratic Backsliding in Hungary and Poland, ODIHR/OSCE, Warsaw — 2019–2021
- ● Research consultancy for the National Democracy Institute – Polling vulnerable groups (woman, youth and Roma) ahead of elections (2022, Budapest)
- ● Risk analyst on Hungary and Poland for hedge funds, Warsaw — 2018–2020
- ● Policy Analyst, Political Capital Research & Consultancy, Budapest — 2015-2019
- ● Journalist, Heti Válasz weekly magazin, Budapest 2014— 2015
- ● Senior editor, Hungarian National News Agency, Budapest/Brussels — 2011—2014
- ● Foreign Policy Editor, Kitekintő, Budapest — 2008—2015
- ● Journalist, Népszabadság, 2009-2010
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| Udział w redakcjach czasopism lub serii wydawniczych |
Peer Reviewed
- Csehi, R, and Zgut-Przybylska, E. “Countering National-Level Populism with Local Politics? Broadening Participatory Processes in Budapest in Illiberal Hungary.” Problems of Post-Communism, August, 1–11. (2025) https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2025.2536028
- Zgut-Przybylska, Edit. “Democratic Backsliding in Poland: An Autocratic Remodeling Attempt under PiS Rule”. In Democratic Backsliding in Europe, edited by Melani Barlai et al. Baden-Baden: Nomos, Andrássy Studien zur Europaforschung. (2025) https://www.nomos-shop.de/en/p/democratic-backsliding-in-europe-978-3-7560-0859-9
- Volintiru, C, and Zgut-Przybylska, E. “The eroding force of informal rules: Romania between democracy and Europeanization”. In: “Post-Communist progress and stagnation at 35. The Case of Romania”. Palgrave Macmillan. (2024): 57-81.
- Zgut-Przybylska, E: “The Pro-Russian Far-Right is reinforced by the Orban regime. In: Kacper, R., Renard, T. and Molas, B. (ed)s: “Russia and the Far-Right. Insights from ten European countries”. The Hague: ICCT Press, 2024.
- Zgut, E. “Informal Exercise of Power: Undermining Democracy Under the EU’s Radar in Hungary and Poland.” Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 14, no. 2-3 (2022): 287-308.
- Csehi, R, and Zgut, E. “‘We won’t let Brussels dictate us’: Eurosceptic populism in Hungary and Poland.” European Politics and Society 22, no. 1 (2021): 53-68.
Working Papers
- Zgut-Przybylska, E. et. al. Disinformation and civil society mapping report – Visegrad region. Techsoup (2024). https://drive.google.com/file/d/17QUia3Dl7a0e7LqCgcMXGYG9BXaZiR2p/view?utm_id=Regional+Mapping+Reports+2024
- Zgut-Przybylska, E. Policy Brief: How To Foster a Green Transition While Decreasing Dependency On China. Visegrad Insight (2023) https://visegradinsight.eu/policy-brief-how-to-foster-a-green-transition-while-decreasing-dependency-on-china/
- Zgut-Przybylska, E. “Tilting the playing field through informal power in Hungary and Poland- How did Russia’s war in Ukraine change the EU’s approach?”, re:constitution Working Paper, Forum Transregionale Studien 23/2023.
- Zgut-Przybylska, E. Two tales of anti-minority approaches in Poland and Hungary. In: Democracy without minorities. European Network of Political Foundations (2023)
- Zgut-Przybylska, E. A Lucrative Relationship: Clientelist Corruption Underpins Orbán’s China Policy.Policy paper. Association for International Affairs (2022).
- Zgut, E. Tilting the Playing Field in Hungary and Poland through Informal Power. Policy paper. German Marshall Fund of the United States (2021).
- Zgut, E. United in Euroscepticism: Populist Foreign Policy in Hungary and Poland. IstanPol working paper, (2021).
- Szicherle et al. The spectre of authoritarian regimes haunting Europe. Policy Paper, Political Capital Research and Consultancy Institute, (2021)
- Geist, R. et al. Visegrad and countries and multi-speed Europe: perceptions, positions, strategies., Europolicy, (2018).
- Zgut, E. et al. Illiberalism in the V4: Pressure points and bright spots. Policy paper, Political Capital Research and Consultancy Institute. (2018)
- Kreko et al. From Russia with hate. The activity of pro-Russian extremist groups in Central-Eastern Europe. Political Capital Research and Consultancy Institute. (2017)
- Juhasz et al. The Year of Rearrangement – The Populist Right and the Far-Right in Contemporary Hungary., Political Capital Research and Consultancy Institute. (2017)
- Rohac, Zgut and Győri, Populism in Europe and its Russian love affair. American Enterprise Institute (2017)
- Molnar, Cs. and Zgut, E. Public and governmental approaches towards TTIP in the V4 countries, Political Capital Research and Consultancy Institute, (2016)
- Csehi, Robert, and Zgut-Przybylska, Edit. 2025. “Countering National-Level Populism with Local Politics? Broadening Participatory Processes in Budapest in Illiberal Hungary.” Problems of Post-Communism, August, 1–11.doi:10.1080/10758216.2025.2536028.
– Zgut-Przybylska, Edit. 2025. “Democratic backsliding in Poland – An autocratic remodeling attempt under PiS rule.” In M. Barlai, C. E. Griessler, M. R. Herbers, et al. (Eds.), Democratic backsliding in Europe (pp. 223–246). Nomos: Baden-Baden.
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| Realizowane projekty badawcze |
● Re: constitution fellowship, Stiftung Mercator, Warsaw/Budapest, 2022/2023
● Rethink.CEE fellowship, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Warsaw— 2020-2021
● Visegrad Insight fellowship, Res Publica Foundation, Warsaw — 2018-2021
● NAWA, “International Scholarship Exchange of PhD Candidates and Academic Staff,” PROM, project (2021, Budapest)
● NAWA, “International Scholarship Exchange of PhD Candidates and Academic Staff,” PROM, project (2022, Warsaw)
● NCBiR travel grant, 2022 June Rome
● NCBiR travel grant, 2022 July, Lisbon
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| Działalność dydaktyczna |
● Guest Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute, US State Department — 2021-Present
○ Populism and Democratic Backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe
● Guest Lecturer, Warsaw University 2018-2021
○ Cooperation of the Visegrad countries in the European Union
● Guest lecturer, George Mason University, Virginia, US
○ Media capture in Central and Eastern Europe
● Guest Lecturer, City Diplomacy Academy, Budapest, Hungary
○ Cooperation of the Visegrad countries in the European Union
● Guest Lecturer, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest — 2015-2018
○ Parties and party systems in CEE
○ Theory of International Relations
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| Inne |
Language skills
Hungarian – Native
English – Fluent
Polish – Conversational
French – Limited Working proficiency
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