Profile of Levan Kakhishvili

About

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the European Politics Research Group at ETH Zurich. Previously I was a Doctoral Fellow at Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS) at the University of Bamberg. I received MSc in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford, St Antony's College as well as MSc in Transformation in South Caucasus from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

Research Interests

Europe (Central and Eastern), Cleavages, Comparative Politics, Conflict, Constitutions, Contentious Politics, Democracy, Democratisation, Elections, Elites, Ethnic Conflict, European Politics, European Union, Foreign Policy, Gender, Governance, Government, Interest Groups, International Relations, Latin America, Local Government, National Identity, Nationalism, NATO, Parliaments, Party Manifestos, Policy Analysis, Political Competition, Political Leadership, Political Methodology, Political Participation, Political Parties, Political Theory, Political Violence, Populism, Public Administration, Public Choice, Public Policy, Regionalism, Religion, Representation, Security, Social Movements, Transitional States, Voting, Catch-all, Constructivism, Global, Identity, International, Methods, Negotiation, Neo-Realism, Party Members, Post-Modernism, Post-Structuralism, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Quantitative, Realism, Regression, War, Causality, Comparative Perspective, Decision Making, Domestic Politics, Electoral Behaviour, Mixed Methods, Narratives, Party Systems, Peace, Policy Change, Policy Implementation, Political Activism, Political Ideology, Political Regime, Public Opinion, Southern Europe, Survey Research, Empirical, European Parliament, Policy-Making