Publications
Book
- 2024 “Circumstantial Liberals: Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition and Democracy” Oxford University Press Link
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2026 “National and Socialist: political representation in the left-authoritarian quadrant in Eastern Europe.” West European Politics Link
2025 “The 2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey on political party positioning in Europe: Twenty-five years of party positional data” Electoral Studies with Jonathan Polk, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Anna Vachudova Link
2025 “Electoral Participation and Satisfaction with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe” Political Science Research and Methods with Filip Kostelka, Lukas Linek, and Michael Skvrnak Link
2024 “The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine” European Union Politics, 0(0) with Hooghe, L., Marks, G., Bakker, R., Jolly, S., Polk, J., Steenbergen, M., & Vachudova, M. A. Link
2023 “Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience” American Political Science Review Link
2022 “The Social Bases of Political Parties: A New Measure and Survey” British Journal of Political Science with Gary Marks, David Attewell, Liesbet Hooghe, and Marco Steenbergen Link
2022 “Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid-19 pandemic” European Journal of Political Research with Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Anna Vachudova Link
2022 “Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file 1999-2019” Electoral Studies, Vol 75 with Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Anna Vachudova Link
2020 “Still Blurry? Economic Salience, Position, and Voting for Radical Right Parties in Western Europe” European Journal of Political Research with Jonathan Polk Link
2019 “The `losers of automation’: A Reservoir of Votes for the Radical Right?” Research and Politics with Zhen Jie Im, Nonna Mayer, Bruno Palier Link
2019 “It’s Not the Left: Ideology and Protest Participation in Old and New Democracies” Comparative Political Studies with Filip Kostelka Link
2019 “Issue Dimensionality and Party Competition in Turbulent Times” Party Politics, 25(1) with Stephen Whitefield Link
2019 “New Wine in Old Bottles: Explaining the Dimensional Structure of European Party Systems” Party Politics, 25(1) with Jonathan Polk Link
2017 “Outsiders at the Ballot Box: Operationalizations and Political Consequences of the Insider-Outsider Dualism” Socio-Economic Review, 15(1) with Allison Rovny Link
2017 “Explaining the Salience of Anti-Elitism and Reducing Political Corruption for Political Parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey Data” Research and Politics with Jonathan Polk, Ryan Bakker, Erica Edwards, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Jelle Koedam, Filip Kostelka, Gary Marks, Gijs Schumacher, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Vachudova, and Marko Zilovic Link
2016 “Stepping in the Same River Twice: Stability Amidst Change in Eastern European Party Competition” European Journal of Political Research, 56(1) with Jonathan Polk Link
2015 “Riker and Rokkan: Remarks on the Strategy and Structure of Party Competition” Party Politics, 21(6) Link
2015 “Party Competition Structure in Eastern Europe: Aggregate Uniformity versus Idiosyncratic Diversity?” East European Politics and Societies, 29(1) Link
2015 “Measuring Party Positions in Europe. The Chapel Hill Expert Survey Trend File 1999-2010” Party Politics, 21(1) with Ryan Bakker, Erica Edwards, Catherine DeVries, Seth Jolly, Liesbet Hooghe, Jon Polk, Gary Marks, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Anna Vachudova Link
2014 “Anchoring the Experts: Using Vignettes to Compare Party Ideology Across Countries?” Research and Politics, October-December with Ryan Bakker, Erica Edwards, Seth Jolly, Jon Polk, and Marco Steenbergen Link
2014 “The Other `Other’: Party Responses to Immigration in Eastern Europe” Comparative European Politics, 12(6) Link
2014 “Communism, Federalism and Ethnic Minorities: Explaining Party Competition Patterns in Eastern Europe” World Politics, 66(4) Link
2013 “Where Do Radical Right Parties Stand? Position Blurring in Multidimensional Competition” European Political Science Review, 5(1) Link
2012 “Who Emphasizes and Who Blurs: Party Strategies in Multidimensional Competition” European Union Politics, 13(2) Link
2012 “Struggle Over Dimensionality: Political Competition in Western and Eastern Europe” East European Politics and Societies, 26(1) with Erica Edwards Link
2010 “Reliability and Validity of the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill Expert Surveys on Party Positioning” European Journal of Political Research, 49(4) with Liesbet Hooghe, Ryan Bakker, Anna Brigevich, Catherine De Vries, Erica Edwards, Gary Marks, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Vachudova Link
Contributions to Edited Volumes
2021 “Cleavage Theory” In: Handbook on the EU Crisis, edited by Marianne Riddervold, Jarle Trondal, and Akasemi Newsome London: Palgrave (with Gary Marks, David Attewell, and Liesbet Hooghe) Link
2020 “The changing political landscape in Europe” In: The EU Through Multiple Crises, edited by Maurizio Cotta and Pierangelo Isernia London: Routledge, pp. 20-44 (with Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, David Attewell)
2019 “The Czech Republic and the European Union” In: Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics (coauthored with Lenka Rovna)
2018 “Multidimensional Party Competition in Europe” In: Welfare Democracies and Party Politics, edited by Philip Manow, Bruno Palier, and Hanna Schwander Oxford University Press (coauthored with Jonathan Polk)
2018 “Social and Economic Divergence in Europe” In: Welfare Democracies and Party Politics, edited by Philip Manow, Bruno Palier, and Hanna Schwander Oxford University Press (coauthored with Bruno Palier and Allison Rovny)
2017 “The `losers of digitalization’: A Reservoir of Votes for the Far-Right?” In: The Political Economy of Inequality and Social Integration, Yangho Rhee (ed.) (with Nonna Mayer, Bruno Palier, Zhenji Im)
2005 “Struktura evropske stranicke politiky a jeji vliv na funkce a motivace politickych stran na evropske urovni” In: Europeizace jako tema politologickeho vyzkumu, Hlousek (ed.) Masaryk University, Brno
2005 “The 2004 European Elections in the Czech Republic: Party System Question Marks Confirmed?” In: European Parliament Elections 2004 in the Ten New Member States: Towards the Future European Party System, Hrbek R. (ed.) Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Other
Blog Posts and Articles
2026 “How Peter Magyar and Tisza remade the Hungarian party system” EUROPP Blog With Zsofia Barta Link
2026 “What should we expect from the next Hungarian government?” EUROPP Blog With Zsofia Barta Link
2026 “Hongrie : la fin de l’ère Orban ?” Conference Sciences Po With Zsofia Barta Link
2025 “The 2025 Czech election – Andrej Babis’s Pyrrhic victory” EUROPP Blog Link
2025 “Elections législatives tchèques de 2025 : la victoire à la Pyrrhus d’Andrej Babis” The Conversation Link
2024 “Long Live the Republic, and Long Live Parliamentarism: The 2024 French Legislative Elections” Link
2024 “How populism and EU-scepticism shape party support for Ukraine” EUROPP Blog with Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Marco Steenbergen, and Milada Vachudova Link
2023 “Rationality of Irrationality: Political Determinants and Effects of Party Position Blurring” Book review, Perspectives on Politics Link
2022 “Les elections de 2022 font-elles de la France un pays d’Europe de l’Est ?” The Conversation Link
2022 “Paris sur Danube: Why French politics now looks distinctly eastern European” EUROPP Blog Link
2022 “Paris sur Danube: Proc volby udelaly z Francie východoevropskou zemi” Respekt Link
2021 “Die deutschen Grünen sind ein Vorbild für Europa” Die Zeit Link
2020 “Who opposes the EU? Continuity and change in party Euroscepticism between 2014 and 2019” LSE Blog with Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Vachudova Link
2020 “Rozhovor: ANO je historický omyl” Respekt Link
2020 “Cooperating with the Czechs, driving the state: German activist policies through biographical trajectories and administrative records (1918-1938)” LIEPP Working Paper #108 with Paul Lenormand Link
2020 “Circumstantial Liberals: Czech Germans in Interwar Czechoslovakia” LIEPP Working Paper #101 Link
2019 “In Prague, protesters demand the resignation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis” Monkey Cage blog of the Washington Post with Milada Anna Vachudova Link
2018 “Češi přestali volit podle ekonomiky” Respekt Link
2018 “Three Lessons from the Czech Presidential Election” European Politics and Policy Blog, London School of Economics Link
2017 “Election reaction: The Czech Republic shifts toward the Polish and Hungarian model” European Politics and Policy Blog, London School of Economics Link
2017 “Anti-Elite/Establishment Rhetoric and Party Positioning on European Integration” Chinese Political Science Review with Jonathan Polk Link
2016 “Hungary and Poland’s anti-democratic turn: a new era or more of the same?” European Politics and Policy Blog, London School of Economics Link
2015 “Outsiderness, Social Class, and Votes in the 2014 European Elections” Revue européenne des sciences sociales, 53(1) co-authored with Nonna Mayer, Allison Rovny, and Nicolas Sauger
2015 “Some in Eastern Europe are welcoming refugees. Some aren’t. Here’s why.” Monkey Cage blog of the Washington Post Link
2015 “All tomorrow’s parties? The future (and past) of politics in Eastern Europe” University College London (SSEES) research blog Link
Working Papers and Reports
2012 “The 2010 Iteration of the Chapel Hill Expert Surveys on Party Positions” APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter, 22(2), Summer
2009 “Jaka je dnesni extremni pravice?” Pritomnost (What is Today’s Extreme Right Like?)
2009 “Neprava Pravice Vaclava Klause” Respekt (The Wrong Right of Vaclav Klaus)
2009 “Neprava Pravice Vaclava Klause” Pritomnost (The Wrong Right of Vaclav Klaus)
2009 “Neprava Pravice V. K.” Czech Radio 6 (The Wrong Right of Vaclav Klaus)
2008 “Americke Volby 2008” Czech Radio 6 (The US 2008 Elections)
2008 “Proc ma McCain sanci?” Czech Radio 6 (Why Does McCain Have a Chance of Winning?)
2004 “Conceptualizing Party-based Euroscepticism: Magnitude and Motivations” Collegium #29, Winter Download Issue
2003 “Umeni sebezachovy: Role a fungovani politickych stran na evropske urovni” Politologicka Revue, Prague, Autumn
2003 “The Approaches to the Study of the European Democratic Deficit?” Perspectives, Prague, Spring
2002 “The Democratic Deficit in the European Union: the Issue of Representation” Integrace #13, Prague
2002 “Mezi Spojenými Státy Americkými a Spojenými Státy Evropskými? Kanadský pohled na Evropskou integraci” Integrace #2/6, Prague
2001 “Kanadske vseobecne volby 2000” Mezinarodni politika #1, Prague (co-authored with Lenka Rovna)
2001 “Slabne vliv americkych politickych stran?” Politologicka Revue #2, Prague
2001 “Kanadský politický systém a volby 2000” Politologicka Revue #1, Prague (co-authored with Lenka Rovna)