Biography

Lenka Dražanová is a Research Fellow to the Observatory of Public Attitudes to Migration (OPAM) project. Lenka received her PhD (Summa Cum Laude) in political science from the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2016. She holds additional degrees in political science from Central European University (Hungary) and Charles University (Czech Republic). She was also awarded a Humboldt Postdoc Scholarship at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin under the German Excellence Initiative. Lenka´s primary research agenda has two specific areas that revolve around the question whether we can really identify a current shift towards less tolerant, populist and nationalist societies and politics (especially in Europe), and if so, how we can explain the underlying causes. Firstly, she examines the development of populism, nationalism and xenophobia and the challenges they provide to (liberal) democracy. Secondly, she focuses on comparative political behaviour and political/social attitudes and their interdependence with policy, institutions, political actors and cultures. Her recent book “Education and Tolerance” analyzes quantitatively cross-national variations in the effect of education on social and political tolerance based on a large-scale survey. It argues that education contributes to more tolerant views only in countries with certain political, socio-economic and cultural background and identifies individual-level and country-level factors that may influence the relationship between education and tolerance

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Enhancing migration narrative to develop further union’s long-term actions
• Observatory of public attitudes to migration

Completed

• IT tools and methods for managing migration flows

Recent research output

• JEANNET, Anne-Marie; DRAŽANOVÁ, Lenka (2023), Cohort differences in attitudes toward sexual orientation : the formative political climate as a socializing agent, Article
• DRAŽANOVÁ, Lenka; GONNOT, Jerome (2023), Attitudes toward immigration in Europe : cross-regional differences, Article
• JEANNET, Anne-Marie; DRAŽANOVÁ, Lenka (2023), Blame it on my youth : the origins of attitudes towards immigration, Article
• DRAŽANOVÁ, Lenka; GONNOT, Jerome; HEIDLAND, Tobias; FINJA, Krüger (2023), Which individual-level factors explain public attitudes toward immigration? : a meta-analysis, Article
• SCHULTE-CLOOS, Julia; DRAŽANOVÁ, Lenka (2023), Shared identity in crisis : a comparative study of support for the EU in the face of the Russian threat, Working Paper
• DRAŽANOVÁ, Lenka; GONNOT, Jerome (2023), Public opinion and immigration in Europe : can regional migration flows predict public attitudes to immigration, Working Paper