Damir Kapidžić is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the Faculty of Political Science, and Director of the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Previously he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. His research looks at how democratic innovations and authoritarian politics work in institutions after ethnic conflict and power-sharing. He consults the Council of Europe and UNOPS on deliberative processes, is a member of BiEPAG, an EU Horizon principal investigator, and editor of ‘Illiberal Politics in Southeast Europe’.
Areas of expertise:
democracy, authoritarianism, ethnic conflict, radicalization, political parties, elections, deliberative democracy
Languages:
English, German, Croatian–Bosnian–Serbian, Swedish
