The study of populism has typically focused on national-level politics, leaving subnational politics lost in the shuffle. Eliška Drápalová argues that underestimating the importance of the sub-national level limits our understanding of the impact that populist movements have – and misses the fascinating developments happening below the national surface
Research Fellow, Research Group Politics of Digitalization (POLDI), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Eliška has been a research fellow at the WZB since January 2022.
Prior to that, she was involved as a guest researcher.
She obtained her PhD in Political Economy from the European University Institute in Florence.
She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Organizations, Management and Leadership Cluster of the Hertie School in Berlin as well as the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Eliška is a comparative political scientist and administration scholar interested in the quality of government and regulation in cities, local political representation and the effect of technology on public administration.
She co-directs a DFG-funded project on regulating platform companies in EU cities and regions together with Kai Wegrich from the Hertie School.
