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The Stein Rokkan Edition of our House Lecture assembles renowned scholars in political parties, social movements, and democracy, to discuss the extent to which both the East and the West are artificial constructs and shortcuts attempting to simplify the complex reality of contemporary democracy, and how to move beyond this outdated paradigm – bridging the East-West divide.

Lenka Buštíková grew up in Prague and is an alumna of FSV UK. Lenka holds a PhD in political science from Duke University and MA degrees from Charles University, Central European University and Harvard University.

She is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on party politics, voting behaviour, clientelism, and state capacity, with special reference to Eastern Europe. Her book, Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2019), demonstrates that far-right parties mobilise against politically ascendant minorities. It received the Davis Center Book Prize in political and social studies in 2020.

Lenka is the recipient of the 2015 Best Article Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association's European Politics and Society Section, for her article 'Revenge of the Radical Right', and also the recipient of the 2017 Best Paper Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association's Comparative Democratization Section, for her paper co-authored with Cristina Corduneanu-Huci 'Patronage, Trust and State Capacity: The Historical Trajectories of Clientelism'. She is currently serving as an Editor of East European Politics.

Ondrej Cisar is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague and is also affiliated with the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the Czech edition of Czech Sociological Review. Ondrej‘s research in political sociology focuses on social movements, political protest and comparative politics. His current projects include climate justice activism and the role of expertise in the public sphere.

His articles appeared in journals such as Environmental Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Social Movement Studies, Democratization, East European Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, European Union Politics, and Poetics. He has held fellowship positions at Columbia University (New York), University of California (Irvine), Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence), Central European University (Budapest), University of Rijeka.

Fernando Casal Bertoa is an Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Nottingham. He studied law in Pamplona, political science in Salamanca, and Central and Eastern European Studies at the Jagiellonian University.

Fernando was recruited to the EUI by the late Peter Mair and his doctoral thesis at the EUI was on the institutionalisation of East-Central European party systems (2011). Prior to going to Nottingham, he worked at the University of Leiden (with Ingrid van Biezen).

He is member of the OSCE/ODIHR 'Core Group of Experts on Political Parties', co-director of the Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy (REPRESENT) and co-director of the ECPR/ODIHR (Winter and Summer) Schools on Parties and Democracy.

Fernando was awarded the 2017 Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prize, the 2017 AECPA Prize for the Best Article and the 2018 Vice-Chancellor Medal of the University of Nottingham for 'exceptional achievements'. His last monograph is titled Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternative and Democracy in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Zsolt Enyedi is Professor of Political Science at the Central European University and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Oxford University. He studied comparative social sciences, history, sociology and political science in Budapest and Amsterdam. His research interests are in party politics, comparative government, church and state relations, and political psychology (especially authoritarianism, prejudices and political tolerance).

His articles appeared in journals such as Political Psychology, European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies, West European Politics, Party Politics, Political Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of Ideologies, European Review

Zsolt was the 2003 recipient of the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize and the 2004 winner of the Bibó Award. He has held fellowship positions at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington D.C.), Kellogg Institute (Notre Dame University), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (Wassenaar), the European University Institute (Florence) and Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University.

Petra Guasti is an Assistant Professor of Democratic Theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences (on leave).

Between 2016 and 2021, Petra served as a Senior Researcher, an Interim Professor and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Between 2018 and 2019, she was a Visiting Democracy Fellow at Harvard University’s Ash Centre for Democratic Governance and Innovation. In April 2021 she completed her venia legendi for political science at the Goethe University Frankfurt.

Petra's research focuses on the reconfiguration of the political landscape revolves around three themes – representation, democratisation, and populism. In 2020 she has been appointed to the expert board of the Nation in Transit (Freedom House).

Professor Milada Anna Vachudova specialises in party systems, political change in postcommunist Europe, European integration and the impact of international actors on domestic politics. Her recent articles explore the trajectories of European states amidst strengthening ethnopopulism and democratic backsliding – and how these changes are impacting the European Union.

She is a Jean Monnet Chair and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is part of the core team of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) on the positions of political parties across Europe. Her book, Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration After Communism (Oxford University Press, 2005) was awarded the 2006 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.

She holds a B.A. from Stanford University. As a British Marshall Scholar, she completed an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. in the Faculty of Politics at the University of Oxford. She has held fellowships from the European University Institute (EUI), the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, the National Science Foundation, the Center of International Studies at Princeton University and many other institutions.