New publication alert! Excited to share my latest article in Contemporary Politics testing the effect of electoral institutions on descriptive representation of women in regional legislatures in Poland, Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia between 1994 and 2024. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Last week in Pilsen at the 30th Annual Conference of the @CEPSAnet – 30 Shades of Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe: Historical Legacies, Democratic Challenges, and the Politics of Freedom – with paper on Spatial Dimensions of Electoral Democracy in Czech Local Elections.

Dear Dr Pavel Maškarinec, we have now considered your paper “Women’s descriptive representation in Polish, Czech, Hungarian, and Slovak regional legislatures, 1994–2024: Do electoral institutions matter?”and we are pleased to accept it for publication in Contemporary Politics.

Last week at the 39th Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica/Italian Political Science Association (SISP) in @UniTrento with paper on Local Referendums, Development Conflicts, and the Quality of Local Democracy in Czechia, together with Petr Bláha.

This week at the 13th International Congress of Mongolists with paper on Mongolian electoral politics between 1992 and 2024. Монгол Улсын Их Сургууль /The National University of Mongolia/

Happy to see that our study on the mainstreaming of pirate parties was published in @CompEurPol_Jnl . Using the Czech case, we demonstrate how former rebels fighting the establishment can become the establishment fighting rebels within their own party.
link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Santa Claus came a little earlier this year :-)

Excited to share my latest paper "Applicability of quantitatively predictive logical models at subnational level of governance: Testing the Seat Product Model on Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak regional elections" published in @ElectoralStdies
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

However, the results in some cases were not too far from theoretical expectations, especially after incorporating the temporal dimension, which suggested that electoral system outcomes only tend to align with institutional expectations after several electoral cycles.

Indeed, regional party systems are embedded systems and can only be fully understood when broader institutional context is taken into account.

Today's pre-Christmas gift 😊 Dear Dr. Maškarinec, I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript “Applicability of quantitatively predictive logical models at subnational level of governance” has been accepted for publication in @ElectoralStdies

Discussing 🇨🇿–🇩🇪 border issues in our #re_demo project with demographers Tim Leibert (@Leibniz_IfL) & Tomáš Kostelecký (@Sociologicky @KosteleckyTomas) - elections, depopulation, and lack of services on the agenda. @tudresden_de @azpirna @PolSci_FF_UJEP @EErzgebirge

The end of the week marked by participation and presentation of a paper at the 29th Annual Conference of the Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) @CEPSAnet at the Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych UW @WNPiSM.

Excited to share that my new book about quality of democracy in CEE (Poland, Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia) has just been published by @routledgebooks and is available for pre-order.

routledge.com/Quality-of-Dem…

Happy to see that my paper "Strategic voting in two-round elections: confirming the learning hypothesis in the Czech presidential elections of 2013–2023?" is published in the newest issue of @JournalCES :

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Přes 3500 účastníků ze 102 zemí. Všichni jsou v Soulu na @ipsa_aisp konferenci. Zastupujeme zde s @maskarpa naši @PolSci_FF_UJEP s příspěvkem o kvalitě demokracie na lokální úrovni v zemích V4. Skvělá zkušenost, debaty, kontakty, schůzky a taky plány do budoucna. 🇰🇷🤝✔️🔜

Coming soon :-) routledge.com/Quality-of-Dem…