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Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Prof. Petr Kopecky, Ph.D., born October 25, 1967, in Prague.

Department

• CEVRO University, Department of Political Science and International Relations & Leiden University, Institute of Political Science

Employment - Position

• Professor of Political Science

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 1998: PhD in Political Science, University of Leiden, the Netherlands 1992: MA in European Government, University of Manchester, UK 1991: Ing. in Enterprise Economics, University of Economics Prague, the Czech Republic

Employment

• 2024 - : Professor, CEVRO University, Prague (joint appointment with Leiden University) 2011- : Professor of Political Science, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University 2009 - 2011: Associate Professor, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University 2004 – 2008: NWO Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University 2003-2004: Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, Sheffield University 1996-2003: Lecturer, Department of Politics, Sheffield University 1992-1996: Research Assistant (AIO), Institute of Political Science, Leiden University

Teaching Activities

• I teach courses and seminars in the field of comparative politics, with focus on political parties, patronage, corruption and clientelism, anti-statism and anti-state rebellions, and democracy and authoritarianism. I supervise PhD students and invite PhD research proposals in the areas of: political parties patronage, clientelism and corruption, comparative East European politics.

Scientific and Research Activities

• My main research interest are political parties and party systems in contemporary democracies. My current research focuses on the relationship between political patronage and the processes of party building and party organizational transformation, and on the politicization of recruitment of appointed elites. My other research interests include comparative (East) European politics, democratisation and autocratization, comparative political institutions.

Internship

• 2007: Visiting Fellowship, Ghana Center for Democratic Development, Accra, Ghana 2006: Bradlow Research Fellow, South African Institute of International Affairs, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, SA 2002: NWO Research Fellowship, Institute of Political Science, University of Leiden 1998: Research Fellowship, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence

Activities Outside University

• Senior Editor, East European Politics (formerly The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics) Director of the Centre for the Study of Political Parties and Representation, Leiden University Director of the Central and Eastern European Studies Centre, Leiden University Former Head of the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University (twice) Former Director of Research, Institute of Political Science ,Leiden University Former Program Director, MPhil in Political Science, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University Former Member of the editorial board Politologická revue Former Member of the international advisory board Politics in Central Europe Former Member of the editorial board Parlamentní Zpravodaj

2025/02/25