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of Leuven, Belgium (2019), member of the
Advisory Board Wissenschftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung (2016-2024), External Examiner in Politics, Public Administration and Global Studies at University of Hong Kong (2012-2018), Jean Monet Fellow at the European University Institute (2001–2002), The 21st Century COE Program Fellow at Hokkaido University (2007), Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at European University Institute (2009–2010) and a visiting fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto (2010 and 2014).
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in 1991. He was a lecturer in sociology at
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Enlargement (with Jan Zielonka) 2003 and on Democracy in Postcommunist World (2007) and special issue of Taiwan Journal of Democracy (2012). Over 100 of his papers appeared in numerous social science journals in the US, Europe and Asia and in many edited volumes. He is a member of
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His current projects explore patterns of civil society development in new democracies in
Central Europe and East Asia, the state of democracy in postcommunist world, the EU membership impact on post-communist democracies, and state mobilized contention in
23:(2012-2024), former Chair of undergraduate concentration in Social Studies (2000-2006) and Senior Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on
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226:"The State after State Socialism: Poland in Comparative Perspective," in: The Nation-State in Question, edited by John Hall and John Ikenberry, Princeton University Press 2003, pp. 291–320.
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Ekiert is a native of Poland. He graduated with an MA in sociology from
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Comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society, collective action and social movements, and East
European politics and society.
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He is the author of Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized
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229:"Contentious Politics in New Democracies: Hungary, the former East Germany, Poland and Slovakia," (co-author Jan Kubik),
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Civil
Society and Three Dimensions of Inequality in Post-1989 Poland (co-authors Jan Kubik and Michal Wenzel)
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The Study of Protest Politics in Eastern and Central Europe in the Search of Theory (co-author Jan Kubik) in:
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Advisory Committee and funding member of the Concilium Civitas and Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland.
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Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule
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Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule
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The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe
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The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe
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Post-Pandemic Features: Sociology of Crisis Experience in Central and Eastern Europe
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Rebellious Civil Society. Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland
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Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland
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Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformations
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