Book launch 'Party People: Electoral Candidates and Party Evolution'

The authors

Allan Sikk is an Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His research focuses on European electoral and party politics, research methods, and political and social transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. His work has been published in journals including the European Journal of Political Research and Party Politics, and in edited volumes from Oxford University Press and Routledge.

Philipp Köker is a Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science, Leibniz University Hannover. His research focuses on presidential politics, political parties and elections, and comparative constitutional law. He is the author of Presidential Activism and Veto Power in Central and Eastern Europe (Palgrave, 2017) and of contributions to Democratization, East European Politics, Party Politics, the Review of Central and East European Law, and The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics, among others.

Discussant

Zeynep Somer-Topcu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are at the intersection of political parties and voter behavior in advanced democracies. In her recent work, she is interested in understanding how parties conduct their internal party elections and leadership selections and how these internal procedures affect party performance and evaluations.

Chair

Irina Petrova Lecturer in the Politics of Eurasia at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London; convenor of UCL SSEES Politics & Sociology Seminar Series.