Prof Aleks Szczerbiak

Biography

Sussex European Institute (SEI) Co-Director

Qualifications

BA (Sheffield) MSc PhD (London)

Teaching

Politics of Governance: Eastern Europe (Second Year Politics Major option course)
Political Change: Eastern Europe in Transition (Final Year Politics Major option course)
Politics of Eastern Europe in Transition (MA option course)

Professional activities

• Co-convenor (with Paul Taggart) of the 'European Parties Elections and Referendums Network'.
• Associate Editor and Reviews Editor, Party Politics journal
• Editorial Board member, Journal of Common Market Studies
• Editorial Advisory Board member, Perspectives on European Politics and Society journal
• Convenor, PSA Specialist Group on Communist and Post-Communist Politics, 1999-2002
• Associate Director, ESRC 'One Europe Or Several' Programme, 2001-2003
• Main Prize Winner, 2004 PSA Sir Bernard Crick Awards for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science
• Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of Institutional Affairs European Programme 2002-2007
• Advisory Committee member, European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) Observatory on Political Parties and Representation, 2009-present

• Central and East European politics
• Political parties and electoral politics
• Contemporary Polish politics and society
• The impact of European integration on domestic politics
• The politics of lustration and de-communisation

Thursdays, 11am-1pm

Bale, Tim, Hanley, Seán and Szczerbiak, Aleks (2010) 'May Contain Nuts'? The Reality behind the Rhetoric Surrounding the British Conservatives' New Group in the European Parliament. Political Quarterly, 81 (1). pp. 85-98. ISSN 0032-3179

Bale, Tim and Szczerbiak, Aleks (2008) Why Is There No Christian Democracy in Poland - and Why Should We Care? Party Politics, 14 (4). pp. 479-500. ISSN 1354-0688