prof. PhDr. Vít Hloušek, Ph.D.
Vít graduated in History and Political Science at Masaryk University. He became a professor of European Politics in 2015 and has been involved as Head of the International Institute of Political Science since 2012.
Vít’s research interests include comparative political science (especially comparisons of political and party systems of European countries) and contemporary European history. He has authored a number of scholarly publications, such as the volume The European Parliament Election 2019 in East-Central Europe: Second Order Euroscepticism (with P. Kaniok, Palgrave 2020) and the monographs The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics (with L. Kopeček and P. Vodová, Palgrave 2020), Europeanised Defiance - Czech Euroscepticism since 2004 (with Vl. Havlík and P. Kaniok, Verlag Barbara Budrich 2017) and Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties. East-Central and Western Europe Compared (with L. Kopeček, Ashgate 2010).