Party Organisation after the Square Movements in Europe - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Seongcheol Kim was a Privatdozent and researcher at the University of Bremen during the completion of this book. Having completed his Doctorate in 2020 (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Habilitation in 2023 (University of Bremen), he has held interim and visiting professorships in Bremen and Vienna and co-led a three-year research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He has authored five monographs (two of them as lead co-author) and over two dozen (mostly single-authored) peer-reviewed articles, including in some of the leading journals of comparative politics, political theory, and European/Eurasian area studies, in addition to numerous science communication and commentary pieces. His research encompasses topics such as authoritarianism, nationalism, populism, radical democracy as well as political parties and contentious politics from the radical left to the far right, with a wide-ranging cross-national expertise encompassing Central and Eastern, Southern, and Western Europe.

Lazaros Karavasilis is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (IRex), University of Tübingen, and at the Digital Transitions & Society Research Unit (DIGITS), University of Nicosia. His research focuses on the study of political parties, discourse analysis, populism, and the European radical left and radical right, within a comparative perspective. He is currently a co-editor of e-Extreme, the newsletter of the ECPR Extremism & Democracy Standing Group and has published journal articles, book reviews, and opinion articles in newspapers.

Martin Nonhoff is Professor of Political Theory at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen, Germany. He focuses on discourse theory and (radical) democratic theory. He is co-editor of the critically acclaimed Handbook of Radical Democratic Theory (in German, with Suhrkamp). He is chairman of the Political Theory and Intellectual History Section of the German Association for Political Science and one of the principal investigators of the Research Training Group on Contradiction Studies at the University of Bremen (funded by the German Research Foundation).