Biography
Filip Kostelka serves as Professor of Political Science, Chair in Political and Social Change, and Director of Graduate Studies in the SPS Department. He is currently on leave from the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences Po, Paris, and previously held academic appointments in France, Belgium, Canada, and Spain.
His research interests lie in comparative politics, particularly in the subfields of political behaviour, party politics, and regime change. He studies, among other topics, when and why citizens participate in elections or protests, and how political and contextual factors shape citizens’ behaviour and attitudes. Geographically, his work focuses on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), in comparison with Western democracies and countries in other regions. Filip is the founding convenor of the EUI workshop on political behaviour in Central and Eastern Europe, a yearly June event that brings together scholars from the East and the West to advance empirical research on CEE.
His scholarship has appeared in outlets such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and World Politics. It has also been featured in media outlets including Le Monde, The Washington Post, Radio Canada, France Inter, and Euractiv. His research has been recognised with several distinctions, including the Mattei Dogan Prize, the Marian Irish Award, and the Henrik Enderlein Prize.