Lenka Bustikova, Associate Professor of Political Science

Lenka Buštíková grew up in Prague and holds a PhD in political science from Duke University and MA degrees from Charles University, Central European University and Harvard University. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University.

Her research focuses on party politics, voting behavior, clientelism, and state capacity, with special reference to Eastern Europe. She is the recipient of the 2015 Best Article Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association's European Politics and Society Section, for her article "Revenge of the Radical Right", and also the recipient of the 2017 Best Paper Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association's Comparative Democratization Section, for her paper co-authored with Cristina Corduneanu-Huci "Patronage, Trust and State Capacity: The Historical Trajectories of Clientelism".

Her book, Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press), demonstrates that far right parties mobilize against politically ascendant minorities.
She is currently serving as an editor of East European Politics.

Lenka Bustikova is a visiting researcher in the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department Political sociology in the academic year 2019/2020.  She is currently working on multiple projects: technocratic populism in comparative perspective, uncivil society in Ukraine and illiberal swerve in Eastern Europe.

Contact:
Lenka Bustikova, Associate Professor of Political Science
School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
Web: bustikova.faculty.asu.edu

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Prof. Nancy Jourik in the department of Gender & sociology.

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David S. Siroky is Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, where he is a core faculty member of the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity and a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies and the Center on the Future of War.  He received his Ph.D. in Political Science and M.A. in Economics from Duke University, M.P.P. in public policy from the University of Chicago, M.A. in Slavic languages from the University of London, and B.A from Boston University. He was also the Henry Hart Rice Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University.

His research focuses on nationalism, particularly its separatist and irredentist strains, and on violent conflict. It is motivated by an interest in understanding the roots of social and political conflict, and in uncovering successful strategies to subdue it in divided societies and volatile regions. His publications appear in some of the leading journals (e.g., AJPS, IO, WP, CPS, PA) and have been supported by grants from, among others, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Foundation, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the Open Science Foundation.

He is currently a Fulbright Research Scholar (AY 2019-2020) in the Institute of Sociology, Department of Political Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, and is working on a few projects, including one on critical changes in Czech identity since the Velvet Revolution.

Contact:
David S. Siroky, Associate Professor of Political Science
School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
Web: davidsiroky.faculty.asu.edu