Biography

Karolina is Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Science and associate research fellow at the Centre européen de sociologie et science politique (CESSP) of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is also an expert of Team Europe Direct Poland affiliated by the European Commission.

Her research lies at the intersection of comparative European politics, EU democracy and reform, as well as parliamentary studies. She is currently a principal investigator in the project “Between politicization and legitimacy: transnational political discourse on EU institutional reform (EUDIS)” funded by the National Science Centre in Poland (€300 thousand).

Her latest publications (in West European Politics and JCMS) explore the questions of citizens’ representatives’ preferences related to EU treaty revisions and increased use of deliberative mini publics at the EU level.

In the past Karolina was a lecturer at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas and Masaryk University. She was also a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute and a head of EU programme at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. Her works appeared in a.o. in European Political Science Review, Journal of European Integration, Politics & Governance and Parliamentary Affairs.

Her EUI fellowship is devoted to exploring the political dynamics of the ongoing transnational debate on the European Union’s institutional reform in order to identify and explain patterns of its (de)politicization, (re)contextualization and (de)legitimization vis-à-vis EU citizens.

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• BORONSKA-HRYNIEWIECKA, Karolina; SUS, Monika (2024), The German Bundestag in the Conference on the Future of Europe : comfortable guest with strong ownership, Contribution to book
• BORONSKA-HRYNIEWIECKA, Karolina (2014), The unfolding of Juncker's Commission : challenges for better EU governance, Article
• BORONSKA-HRYNIEWIECKA, Karolina (2013), Democratizing the European multi-level polity? : a (re-)assessment of the early warning system, Contribution to book
• BORONSKA-HRYNIEWIECKA, Karolina (2013), Legitimacy through subsidiarity?, Article
• BORONSKA-HRYNIEWIECKA, Karolina (2013), The role of regional and local authorities in EU development policies in the perspective of the Committee of Regions : multi-level governance revisited in the times of crisis, Article
• BORONSKA-HRYNIEWIECKA, Karolina (2013), Subnational parliaments in EU policy control : explaining the variations across Europe, Working Paper