Jan Bíba
is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. His research interest covers contemporary democratic theory and related issues in the history of political thought. His current focus has been on theories of political representation and populism. Apart from many journal articles, he has co-authored and co-edited three books on contemporary democratic theory.
Sorin Bocancea
Ph.D., is a Professor and Rector at the “Petre Andrei” University of Iași. He is Director of the journal Polis and President of the Institute for the Study of Ideologies (ISI). He is the author of: Institutions and public policy in EU (Cantes Publishing House, 2004); Plato’s City (European Institute, 2010), and Us and Post communism (European Institute, 2012); and coordinated the following volumes: The Romanian Constitution. Essential reviews of the fundamental law (European Institute, 2013); From the student’s press in communism to post communism press (European Institute, 2014); Je suis Charlie? Rethinking freedom in multicultural Europe (Adenium Publishing House, 2015); The Romanian revolution. Military, missions and diversions (European Institute, 2015), and March on Europe. The new dimensions of migration (Adenium Publishing House, 2016). Bocancea has also co-published five collective volumes of policy analysis. His latest work is entitled Two decades of communism in the universitarian Iaşi. Student’s press (European Institute, 2016), written with the help of Doru Tompea. Next to this, he has published over 60 scientific papers on political science in various journals and collective volumes.
Dóra Bókay
finished her MA studies in political science at the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2009. Currently she is a first-year student at the Doctoral School of Political Science, where she is doing research on the EU policy of Fidesz. Previously she worked in Brussels in the field of communication.
Radu Carp
is Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, and Director of the Doctoral School in Political Science at that same university. He has published 19 books as author and co-author. His latest books include: Mai are politica vreun sens? Instrumentele democraţiei și povara populismului (Does Politics Still Have a Meaning? The Instruments of Democracy and the Burden of Populism, Humanitas, 2018); Religion in the Public Sphere. The European and the National Perspectives (Debrecen University Press, 2019); (with Daniel Șandru) Cine suntem și ce ne ține împreună? Reflecții post, Centenar despre natura democrației în România (Who Are We and What Brings Us Together? Reflections after the Centenary about Democracy in Romania, Institutul European, 2019). Carp has also published many articles and book chapters in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Republic of Moldova, the Netherlands, Ukraine, and the USA.
József Dúró
graduated as a political scientist and economist at the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2009. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science in 2014 at that same university. Since then he has been working at the Institute for Political Science at Corvinus University. His main research fields are Euroscepticism, populism, radical right, and democratic transitions in Central and Eastern Europe.
Tomáš Dvořák
is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. He works in the field of political sociology and methodology of empirical research. He carries out research into political organisations and parties, comparative politics and elections, public opinion and voting behaviour. Dvořák’s current research focuses on the analysis of populist parties and attitudes from a comparative perspective.
Alexandra Alina Iancu
is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest, teaching courses on Comparative Politics, European Political Parties, and Democratic Transitions. She holds a joint Ph.D. in political science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Bucharest. Her research interests focus on the democratic backsliding in the ECE (parties and elites) and the history of corruption. Recent publications include: Corruption politique en Europe: Enjeux, réformes et controverses (co-edited with S. Marton; l’Harmattan, Paris, 2019); Democratization and Anti- Corruption in Romania and Bulgaria: Ten Years of EU Membership (co-edited with A. Todorov; University of Bucharest, 2018), Party Members and Their Importance in Non-EU Countries (co-edited with S. Soare and S. Gherghina; Routledge, 2018).
Ruxandra Ivan
is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Bucharest. She teaches Theories of International Relations, EU Policies, and European Construction. She also worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania for the preparation of the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council.
Petra Jankovská
is Ph.D. student in international relations at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. She graduated in Security Studies, while in her final thesis she researched issue of extremism and radicalization of youth in Slovakia. During her studies she completed a semester at War Studies University in Warsaw. Currently, she works in a non-profit sector, coordinating a research on students' attitudes towards migration and various educational activities in a field of migration and hate speech. Several of her articles were published in conference proceedings. She focuses mainly on the topics of extremism and radicalization, migration, disinformation and future threats.
Małgorzata Madej
Ph.D., ORCID no. 0000-0002-5274-8614, is a political scientist employed at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Wrocław, Poland. Main areas of her scientific interests include local and sublocal governance and participation on the local and sublocal level.
Cristina Matiuța
is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oradea, Romania, where she teaches in the fields of political parties, theories of democracy and civil society. She graduated from the Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, in 1996 and she earned a Ph.D. from the same university in 2004, with a thesis on the relationship between liberalism and nationalism and Romania’s problems of modernity. Matiuța has published as author and co-author seven books and more than 50 articles in collective volumes and journals. She is Jean Monnet Professor in the field of the European integration studies and founder and editor of the Journal of Identity and Migration Studies.
Sergiu Mișcoiu
is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies of Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where he serves as a Director of
Valentin Naumescu
is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of European Studies of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. He is an independent expert and research project evaluator of the European Commission, collaborating with the Research Executive Agency (REA). Naumescu is the founder and President of the think tank The Initiative for European Democratic Culture, defending and promoting the European values and democratic culture in Romania. He also has a substantial diplomatic experience, having served as Consul General of Romania in Toronto (2008–2012) and Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005–2007). He has published up to now 13 books as single author or editor in Romania, Canada and UK.
Gianluca Piccolino
is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, European Politics and International Relations, a joint initiative of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and the Universities of Florence, Pisa and Siena. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po Paris and at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne.
Leonardo Puleo
is a Ph.D. candidate at Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies – University of Florence. He holds an MA cum laude in International and Diplomatic Sciences from University of Bologna. His research interests include the relation between challenger and core parties, issue competition, populism and parties and elections.
Alexandru Radu
Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Bucharest, is a political scientist and associate professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the National University
Mihai Sebe
is currently an expert in European affairs and Romanian politics, at the European Institute of Romania. He is an editor of the Romanian Journal of European Affairs and member of scientific committees of several international publications and think tanks (e.g. the Institute of European Democrats). Next to a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science; French Language, and in Law, Sebe has obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University, of Bucharest. His main area of focus is European affairs, in particular the impact of European policies and politics on the national politics. His research interests are: history of the European idea, the impact of new technologies on society, the democratization process, and populism (Twitter: @MihaiSebe83).
Sorina Soare
is researcher at the University of Florence. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Université libre de Bruxelles and has previously studied political science at the University of Bucharest. She works in the area of post-communist comparative politics; her main research interests are political parties and party systems, populism, and the democratization process.
Tobias Spöri
is a post-doctoral researcher based at the Department of Political Science of the University of Vienna. His research focuses on political participation, European integration, and Central and Eastern Europe.
Jeremias Stadlmair
is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Political Science of the University of Vienna, where he also defended his Ph.D. on citizenship policies in Europe in 2017. His research interests comprise politics of citizenship, political participation and turnout in Austria and the European Union. Former research projects appeared in interdisciplinary and political science journals, such as International Migration, the Journal of Contemporary European Studies and the Austrian Journal of Political Science.
is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He teaches Comparative Politics and Political History. His research focuses on methodology and history of political science, non-democratic regimes and theory of totalitarianism. Štefek has published two monographs on the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia: Kádry rozhodují, ovšem (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2019) and Za fasádou jednoty (Pavel Mervart, 2014).
Piotr Sula
is a political scientist working at the Institute of Political Science, University of Wroclaw. His research interest focuses on political rivalry in Central and Eastern Europe. Sula is Managing Editor of Polish Political Science Review Polski Przegląd Politologiczny, and the head of University of Wrocław Organising Committee of the ECPR General Conference in Wroclaw, 2019.
Jaroslav Ušiak
graduated in political science at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In 2015 he became Associate Professor in International Relations at that same university. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Politické vedy which is indexed in Web of Science Core Collection. Ušiak’s research focuses on international relations, security theories, emerging security threats and regional security problems – mainly in Central Europe, devoting primary attention to the societal sector and the problem of identities. He published papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings, and, has participated in many national and international projects, research projects, lectures and conferences.