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Excited to share my new blog post on AuthlibEU! I delve into the 🇨🇿 extreme sovereigntist movement (akin to the 🇺🇸sovereign citizens and 🇩🇪Reichsbürger) and explore their ideology & relation to liberal democracy: authlib.eu/extreme-sovere… IPS FSV CUNI Fakulta sociálních věd UK

Exciting news! Our new publication on political personalization is out. Leader vs. the Party Dilemma: The Case of a Party Rebirth in Czechia, co-authored with Tomas Cirhan 🦔🎓, is now available in East European Politics. IPS FSV CUNI Národní institut SYRI doi.org/10.1080/215991…

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Stauber, J., & Cirhan, T. (2024). Leader vs. the party dilemma: the case of a party rebirth in Czechia. East European Politics, 1-23. doi.org/10.1080/215991…

Jakub Stauber & Tomas Cirhan 🦔🎓 explore the role of personalized party leadership through case studies of two Czech parties. The analysis demonstrates how significant personalization shapes party organization and voter behaviour, especially in a crisis.

Zahájeno! Dnes jsme oficiálně odstartovali dlouho očekávanou přestavbu železniční stanice Jihlava město. Během necelých dvou let zde vznikne moderní dopravní terminál, který propojí vlaky, autobusy a MHD. Cestující se mohou těšit na novou nádražní budovu s veškerým zázemím,

Very grateful that our chapter was published in the prestigious University of Oxford Oxford University Press - thank you Petr Kopecky Petr Kopecky for an excellent cooperation 🥳🍾📚

🔥 The new issue incl. #FREE content is out now👉tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/40/… 🔥 Adam Fagan Petr Kopecky Lenka Bustikova Andrea Pirro

Our open access 🔓article with Tomas Cirhan 🦔🎓 in East European Politics made it to the issue! IPS FSV CUNI Národní institut SYRI

💥WORKSHOP CFP: "From ‘democratic backsliding’ to ‘re-democratizing’: understanding how East European countries get back on a liberal democratic course" 3-4 June 2025 Charles University, Prague👉Special Issue for East European Politics 📑 Adam Fagan Petra Guasti

“Although special protections for powerful minorities may have helped to secure the historical passage to democracy, today the healthiest democracies empower majorities," write Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. "When Should the Majority Rule?" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Dnešní rozhovor o populismu a o mé knize a výzkumu, dĕkuji za prostor Český rozhlas Plus 📖🎙 plus.rozhlas.cz/politolog-cirh…

📢 New AUTHLIB journal article! What are the implications of populism for cultural policy in Central and Eastern Europe? 💡Our AUTHLIB research team - Balint Mikola, Piotr Zagórski - @pzag.bsky.social, Dean Schafer, Tomas Cirhan 🦔🎓, @JonasSuchanek, Dominik Kevicky - has an overview. authlib.eu/journal-articl…

Very proud that our new co-authored article about cultural policies of populist governments in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia was published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy. The publication is part of our AuthlibEU project tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Glad that our new article with Mattia Collini comparing political parties in the Czech Republic and in Italy was published in Czech Journal of Political Science 🇨🇿🇮🇹 czechpolsci.eu/article/view/3…

Interested in the crisis of Czech left-wing parties? Read my new open access co-authored article that was just published in a special issue of Studia Politica Romanian Political Science Review. lnkd.in/eguJeB5W

Very happy that my new co-authored open access article comparing pirate parties in the Czech Republic and in Luxembourg was published in German Journal of Comparative Politics/Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Springer Nature. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Started the new semester this Monday in my new academic role at Masaryk University. Moving back to my home country after 17 years living abroad (6 in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and 11 in the Netherlands 🇳🇱). It’s been quite an adventure, and I’m looking forward to the new challenges ahead. 🎓🇨🇿