About

Rafael Labanino is a research fellow at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz. He is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern. He is a co-author of the Liberalization Database 1973-2013, the most comprehensive data set on the process of liberalizing economic and social policy reforms in the world to date. He is currently working in the joint German-Polish project, "The Missing Link: Examining organized interests in post-communist policy-making”, where his research focuses on the population ecology, vital rates, strategies and influence of Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovenian interest organizations since 1989 with a focus on the context of democratic backsliding.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Democratisation, Environmental Policy, European Politics, European Union, Governance, Institutions, Interest Groups, Policy Analysis, Political Economy, Public Policy, Social Policy, Social Welfare, Welfare State, Qualitative, Quantitative, Europeanisation through Law, Higher Education, Liberalism, Party Systems, Policy Change, Policy Implementation, Energy Policy, Eurozone, Influence, Policy-Making

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Interest Groups
• Central and East European Politics
• Knowledge Politics and Policies
• Political Economy and Welfare State Politics