ALEXANDRA IANCU

ALEXANDRA IANCU

Academic title: Associate Professor (tenured position)

CV | Alexandra Iancu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, teaching courses on Comparative Politics, European Political Parties, Democratic Transitions. She holds a joint PhD in political science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Bucharest

Research fields: elite politice, alegeri și organizații de partid în Europa Centrală și de Est, democratizare și patologii ale democratizării, corupție politică/istoria (anti)corupției în România, regimuri semiprezidențiale în Europa

Courses: SPE (Introduction to Political Communication), SPF (Introduction à la communication politique, Partis et idéologies politiques, Politique comparée), MPE (Transitions démocratiques en Europe), MSE (Partide politice europene), MCP (A comparative approach to political elites), SPR (Politică comparată)

Recent publications:

  • Trădarea lui Polichinelle. Candoare și anticorupție în România precomunistă [Political Candor and Anticorruption in precommunist Romania] Ed. Institutul European, Iasi, 2023.
  • Corruption et politique en Europe. Enjeux, réformes et controverses (coord. cu Silvia Marton), L’Harmattan, collection Politique Comparée, Paris, 2019
  • Party Members and Their Importance in Non-EU Countries (coord. cu Sergiu Gherghina, Sorina Soare), Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems, Londra: Routledge, 2018
  • “Le semi-présidentialisme dans l’aire post-soviétique : triomphe et régression démocratique,” (with Angela Tacea) in: Le régime semi-présidentiel : enjeux et controverses (Pouvoirs), Seuil, pp. 105-118, (2023). ISBN 978-2-02-152385-0.
  • “Die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz in Rumänien – Narrative und politische Polarisierung“ in: Astrid Lorenz and Daniela-Maria Mariș (eds.), Das politische System Rumäniens, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2022, pp. 197-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36343-7_10
  • Increasing women’s political representation in post-communism: party nudges and financial corrections in Romania”, East European Politics, 37(4), pp. 598-616. 2021.

Topics for BA/MA coordination:  1) Political parties, (2) Democratization/cries of democracy in Europe, (3) Integrity politics (narratives, policies and practices), (4) Romanian politics

Office hours: Fridays, 14:30-15:30, Mondays 14:30-15:30 – by appointment by email

E-mailalexandra.iancu@unibuc.ro