Thorlakson, Lori
Dr. Lori Thorlakson is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta where she has held a Jean Monnet Chair and was the founding director of the European Union Centre of Excellence. She is currently vice-president of ECSA-C. Her research interests include party competition in multilevel systems, and democratic development in the post-communist member states of the European Union and energy transition.
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Comparative Federalism, Democracy, and Post-Communist Eastern Europe
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| Institution: | University of Alberta |
| Fields of Expertise: | Communism and the Cold War Divide Energy and Natural Resources EU Foreign Policy and External Relations EU Multi-level Governance Federalism and Territorial Politics Political Parties and Elections |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | lori.thorlakson@ualberta.ca |
| Media outreach: | No |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Thorlakson, Lori. “Introduction to Special Section, ‘Parties and Party System Development in Post-Communist Europe.’” East European Politics and Societies 32, no. 3 (August 2018): 411–21. George Pavlich & Lori Thorlakson (2017) Recalibrating victimhood in the European Union and Canada, Restorative Justice, 5:3, 345-351. Lori Thorlakson (2017) Representation in the EU: multi-level challenges and new perspectives from comparative federalism, Journal of European Public Policy, 24:4, 544-561. |
