Gergana received her PhD in political science from Harvard University and was subsequently a researcher and lecturer at the University of Cambridge and the University of Winchester in the UK.
Her work is comparative and often juxtaposes established with managed or transitional democracies.
Methodologically, her research bridges democratic theory with diverse empirical aspects of democracy and democratisation.
Thematically, she is interested in democracy and government accountability; blame avoidance and media scandals and democracy and political protests.
Her book, Democracy beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age (Palgrave 2019) links claims about the media and government accountability to larger themes about the crisis and transformation of democracy.
Her latest book, Political Uncertainty: A Comparative Exploration (Ibidem 2022) enquires about the nature of uncertainty in democracies and non-democracies.
Gergana is the convenor of the Anti-Politics Specialist Group of the UK Political Science Association and an associate editor of the journal Democratic Theory.
She recently co-founded the Institute for Global Analytics in Bulgaria, and regularly serves as a consultant for the European Commission and a coding expert for V-Dem Institute in Sweden.
