Position: Junior researcher +420 720 415 533tomas.cirhan@fsv.cuni.cz
Tomáš Cirhan mainly deals with new parties of so-called political entrepreneurs. His main areas of research interest include the organization of political parties, new anti-establishment and populist parties, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe. In the Czech context, political parties are the main actors on the political scene, and the success of the new anti-establishment parties represents a significant change in the politics of a number of post-communist countries, including the Czech Republic. Specifically, this project will analyze parties of political entrepreneurs, their influence on the party system in the Czech Republic and the role of personalization of political parties and populism in society during and after the pandemic.