Kim, Seongcheol
Seongcheol Kim is a Privatdozent (senior faculty member with habilitation) in political science at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His research encompasses a wide range of countries (Central/Eastern, Western, Southern Europe) and topics, including authoritarianism and democratic backsliding; nationalism and populism (of the left, right, and centre); political parties and party organization; social movements and protest; and discourse analysis and radical democratic theory. A major focus of his current work is on comparative party politics of Canada and (Western) Europe.
Listing Details
| Institution: | University College Freiburg, University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Civil Society Ethnicity, Racism, and Xenophobia Nationalism and Extremism Populism Social Movements and Political Mobilization |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | seongcheol.kim@ucf.uni-freiburg.de |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (all standard variants), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian |
| Publications: | Kim, Seongcheol (2025): The (Anti-)Political Logic of Authoritarian Institutionalism: Party Politics and Authoritarian Consolidation in Russia. Journal of Language and Politics, 24 (6), pp. 934–953. Kim, Seongcheol (2025): Far-Right Movement Parties in Europe: Two Perspectives [Research Note]. Nations and Nationalism, 31 (3), pp. 642–650. Kim, Seongcheol (2025): Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of “the Russian People” in Volodymyr Zelensky’s Wartime Speeches. Government and Opposition, 60 (1), pp. 229–245. Kim, Seongcheol (2024): Anti-Populism Left, Right, and Centre: Varieties of Anti-Populist Party Politics in the European “Populist Moment”. Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly, DOI: 10.1007/s11615-024-00574-7 (Online First). Kim, Seongcheol (2024): Bewegungsparteien und Volksparteien neuen Typs. Neue Formen politischer Organisation in Europa. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus. 209 pp. |
