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Grzegorz Ekiert

Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, CES Director, Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair

Room 401

work (617) 998-5420

ekiert@fas.harvard.edu

Website

http://scholar.harvard.edu/ekiert

Biography

Ekiert is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Director of CES, and Senior Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society and social movements, and East European politics and societies. He is the author of The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe (1996); Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland (with J. Kubik, 1999); Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (co-edited with S. Hanson, 2003); editor of special issues of East European Politics and Societies on the “EU Eastward Enlargement” (with J. Zielonka, 2003) and of “Democracy in the Postcommunist World” (2007) and Taiwan Journal of Democracy on “A Liberal Challenge? Civil Society and Grass-root Politics in New Democracies” (with S. Kim, 2013). He is also co-editor of Open Forum — the interactive CES working papers series. His current projects explore civil society development in new democracies in Central Europe and East Asia and patterns of transformations in post-communist world.

Affiliations

Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University
Director, CES, Harvard University
Resident Faculty, CES
Chair, Director's Seminar

Courses

Category	Course
undergraduate	Civil Society, West and East GOV 2148 - Fall 2017

Recent Articles

“The Weakness of Post-Communist Civil Society Reassessed” (co-author Roberto Foa) forthcoming in European Journal of Political Research.  
“Civil Society and Three Dimensions of Inequality in Post-1989 Poland” (co-authors Jan Kubik and Michal Wenzel) forthcoming in Comparative Politics, Special Issue on Civil Society in an Era of Inequality. 
“Three Generations of Research on Post-Communist Politics – A Sketch,” in: East European Politics and Societies (May 2015) Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 323-337 
“Myths and Realities of Civil Society,” (co-author Jan Kubik) Journal of Democracy (January 2014) Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 46-58 
“Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 100 years On,” (co-author Daniel Ziblatt) in: East European Politics and Societies (February 2013) Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 88-105

Publications

Contentious Politics in New Democracies: Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, & the Former East Germany

Working Paper (1997)

Public Participation & Politics of Discontent in Post-Communist Poland 1989-1992

News

How to Deal with Poland and Hungary?

Social Europe on August 15, 2017

“Hungary and Poland can no longer be considered liberal democracies. In both countries, the authoritarian institutional system has been established, giving largely unrestricted political power to the ruling party. While they are still not dictatorships, the potential for authoritarian rule increases considerably with every new legislation expanding the power of the government.”