Tomáš Cirhan, Ph.D.

Tomáš Cirhan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University in Brno. Formerly he was a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University in Prague. He acquired a PhD from Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands). After graduating at Business Academy and Language school in Jihlava in the Czech Republic, he relocated to Scotland, where he received an HNC in Social Sciences at Banff and Buchan College (Fraserburgh, United Kingdom). He completed his university education at the University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, United Kingdom), from which he graduated with commendation in September 2013 with an MSc in Globalization. He holds an BA (Hons) in Applied Social Sciences from Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen, United Kingdom).

His research interests lie in the cross-national comparative analysis of anti-establishment political parties and their party organization. He received his PhD in Political Sciences from Leiden University in May 2021, focusing primarily on party politics in Central and Eastern Europe. His authored and co-authored articles were repeatedly published in East European Politics and in Czech Journal of Political Science. He has contributed co-authored chapter about party leaders in Central and Eastern Europe published by Palgrave Macmillan. His most recent co-authored chapter about fragmentation of Czech party system was published by Oxford University Press. He recently published a book titled Party Organization and Electoral Success of New Anti-establishment Parties at Routledge. He is also a regular reviewer for academic journals like Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, East European Politics and Societies, Politics and Governance, Czech Journal of Political Science, Acta Politologica or Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia.