Academic title: Professor

CV | Alexandra Iancu is 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: political elites, elections and party politics in the ECE region and the EU neighboring countries, democratisation and democratic crises, political (anti)corruption and informality, semipresidential regimes in Europe

Courses: SPE and RISE (Political Parties and Ideologies), SPF (Partis et idéologies politiques, Politique comparée), SPR (Partide și ideologii politice, Politică comparată); MCP (A comparative approach to political elites), Școala Doctorală: Teories, method and research in political Science

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.
• “Filling the ideological void: „Restorative” nostalgia and the radical right parties in Romania” Sociologia, 55, no.2, 109-133, 2023.

• “(De)politicising the rule of law and fundamental rights in Europe: Transnational illiberalism or a regional perspective?” in Meike Schmidt-Gleim, Ruzha Smilova & Claudia Wiesner (eds.), Revisiting the Crisis of Democracy. The Dialectics of Politicisation and Depoliticisation, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2022, pp. 85-109.

• 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

Topics for PhD coordination: crises of contemporary democracies/democratic values, party politics; political narratives and imaginary, comparative democratic processes/Europeanisation in the ECE and the EU neighbouring countries; semipresidentialism in comparative perspective

Office hours: Mainly on Mondays and Fridays – by appointment via email at alexandra.iancu@unibuc.ro

E-mail: alexandra.iancu@unibuc.ro