Endre Borbáth

Political Sociology • Freie Universität Berlin • WZB Berlin Social Science Center

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I am a postdoctoral researcher, working at the Institute of Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin, and at the Center for Civil Society Research at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Research interests: comparative political sociology, party competition, social movements, civil society, political participation, crisis politics, cleavages, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, research methods. You can find more information about my ongoing research, published in scientific, or general media outlets.

Previously I received my PhD in December 2018 from the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute, with a thesis on “Parties and protests in crisis-hit Europe: continuity and change in the structure of political conflict”. Before that I studied political science at the Central European University with a focus on electoral politics. You can find my more detailed cv here.

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recent news [full archive]

Feb 1, 2023 Our special issue, “Politics under Pressure: Polarisation and Participation in Western Europe”, edited with Swen Hutter and Arndt Leininger has recently been published online by West European Politics. The issue also includes our introductory article entitled “Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe”. You can access it here, and here you find a twitter thread presenting the issue.
Dec 12, 2022 My new article entitled Differentiation in Protest Politics - Participation by Political Insiders and Outsiders is accepted for publication in Political Behavior. You can access the paper here and you can find the replication material on this link.
Oct 27, 2022 Our article entitled “Typology of Postcommunist Successor Parties in Central and Eastern Europe and an Explanatory Framework for Their (Non-)Success” with Seongcheol Kim has been published in East Central Europe! We review and contribute to the literature on the fate of postcommunist successor parties through a comparatice analysis of parties in the Czech Republic, (the former East) Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.
You can access the article here. You can find a twitter thread with more info on the paper here!

recent publications

  1. WEP
    Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe
    Borbáth, EndreHutter, Swen, and Leininger, Arndt
    West European Politics 2023
  2. PolBeh
    Differentiation in Protest Politics - Participation by Political Insiders and Outsiders
    Borbáth, Endre
    Political Behavior 2023
  3. ECEU
    A Typology of Postcommunist Successor Parties in Central and Eastern Europe and an Explanatory Framework for Their (Non-)Success
    Kim, Seongcheol, and Borbáth, Endre
    East Central Europe 2022
  4. Oxford HB
    Bridging Electoral and Nonelectoral Political Participation
    Borbáth, Endre, and Hutter, Swen
    2022