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Jan Rovny

Full Professor

Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)

Research Interest(s): Political competition in Europe, Ideological conflict lines in Europe

Discipline(s): Political Science

Language(s): English, French, German

Biography

1. Research work

Jan Rovny is a professor of political science at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, Paris. His research concentrates on political competition in Europe with the aim of uncovering the political conflict lines in different countries. He explores the issues that political parties contest across the continent, the strategies that different parties follow, as well as the preferences and voting patterns of voters.

He is interested in the impact of different voter profiles, particularly their ethnicity and exposure to various social risks, on their political attitudes and voting behavior, as well as on the forms of their political representation.

Current projects

AUTHLIB - Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the liberal democratic response (2022-2025)

Jan Rovny is one of the principal investigators of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey on party positioning.

2. Teaching

He teaches courses in comparative politics and quantitative methodology, and advises students studying parties, electoral behavior, or ethnic politics in Europe. He acts as a co-director of graduate studies in comparative politics, as well as the academic advisor to the Sciences Po Summer School.

3. Editorial activities

He is an associate editor of East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures.

4. Contact information

publications

  • Bruno Cautrès, Jan Rovny. L’Europe est un miracle. Comprendre son temps, 2024, 1, pp.4-13. ⟨hal-05263421⟩
  • Jan Rovny, Jonathan Polk, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, et al.. The 2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey on political party positioning in Europe: Twenty-five years of party positional data. Electoral Studies, 2025, 97, pp.102981. ⟨10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102981⟩. ⟨hal-05238289⟩
  • Filip Kostelka, Lukáš Linek, Jan Rovny, Michael Škvrňák. Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Political Science Research and Methods, 2025, pp.1-21. ⟨10.1017/psrm.2025.10028⟩. ⟨hal-05167332⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy. Oxford University PressOxford, 1, 2024, 9780198906742. ⟨10.1093/9780198906742.001.0001⟩. ⟨hal-04610641⟩
  • Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Ryan Bakker, Seth Jolly, Jonathan Polk, et al.. The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine. European Union Politics, 2024, ⟨10.1177/14651165241237136⟩. ⟨hal-04530520⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience. American Political Science Review, 2023, pp.1-19. ⟨10.1017/S000305542200140X⟩. ⟨hal-03959247⟩
  • Samy Cohen, Nonna Mayer, Jan Rovny, René Lindstädt. How reliable and how valid are expert surveys?. 2022, 11 p. ⟨hal-04724274⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Paris sur Danube: Why French politics now looks distinctly eastern European. 2022. ⟨hal-03833695⟩
  • Gary Marks, David Attewell, Liesbet Hooghe, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen. The Social Bases of Political Parties: A New Measure and Survey. British Journal of Political Science, 2022, ⟨10.1017/S0007123421000740⟩. ⟨hal-03566529⟩
  • Seth Jolly, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, et al.. Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019. Electoral Studies, 2022, 75, pp.102420. ⟨10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102420⟩. ⟨hal-03822280⟩
  • Jan Rovny, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, et al.. Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic. European Journal of Political Research, 2022, 61 (4), pp.1155-1164. ⟨10.1111/1475-6765.12510⟩. ⟨hal-03566589⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Politics of Ethnicity and Democratic Resilience. 2021. ⟨hal-03263656⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Politiques de l’ethnicité et résilience démocratique. 2021. ⟨hal-03263776⟩
  • Jan Rovny, Gary Marks, David Attewell, Liesbet Hooghe. Cleavage Theory. Marianne Riddervold; Jarle Trondal; Akasemi Newsome. The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.173 - 193, 2021, 9783030517915. ⟨hal-03380960⟩
  • Gary Marks, David Attewell, Jan Rovny, Liesbet Hooghe. The changing political landscape in Europe. Pierangelo Isernia; Maurizio Cotta. The EU through Multiple Crises, Routledge, pp.20 - 44, 2020, 9780429331688. ⟨hal-03380989⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Ян Ровни: Все партии должны будут обратить внимание на новые запросы (Interview). 2020. ⟨hal-02978087⟩
  • Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, et al.. Who opposes the EU? Continuity and change in party Euroscepticism between 2014 and 2019. 2020. ⟨hal-02870044⟩
  • Paul Lenormand, Jan Rovny. Cooperating with the Czechs, driving the State. 2020. ⟨hal-02586109⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Circumstantial Liberals: Czech Germans in Interwar Czechoslovakia. 2020. ⟨hal-02459013⟩
  • Jan Rovny. El retorno de Piketty: impuestos a los millonarios y fondo de capital universal (Interview). 2019. ⟨hal-02586096⟩
  • Jan Rovny, Lenka Rovna. The Czech Republic and he European Union. Finn Laursen. The Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics, Oxford University Press, pp.Online, 2019, 9780190856427. ⟨hal-02386682⟩
  • Jan Rovny, Filip Kostelka. It’s Not the Left: Ideology and Protest Participation. 2019. ⟨hal-02386489⟩
  • Anja Durovic, Caterina Froio, Gilles Ivaldi, Sarah de Lange, Nonna Mayer, et al.. A not so silent revolution: The new power of old divides in European politics. 2019. ⟨hal-02317952⟩
  • Jan Rovny, Jonathan Polk. Still blurry? Economic salience, position and voting for radical right parties in Western Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 2019, 59 (2), pp.248-268. ⟨10.1111/1475-6765.12356⟩. ⟨hal-02376394⟩
  • Jan Rovny. The ‘Brahmin left’ vs the ‘Merchant right’: A comment on Thomas Piketty’s new book. 2019. ⟨hal-02294306⟩
  • Zhen Jie Im, Nonna Mayer, Bruno Palier, Jan Rovny. The “losers of automation”: A reservoir of votes for the radical right?. Research & Politics, 2019, 6 (1), pp.1-7. ⟨10.1177/2053168018822395⟩. ⟨hal-02177772⟩
  • Filip Kostelka, Jan Rovny. It’s Not the Left: Ideology and Protest Participation in Old and New Democracies. Comparative Political Studies, 2019, 52 (11), pp.1677-1712. ⟨10.1177/0010414019830717⟩. ⟨hal-02184039⟩
  • Jan Rovny, Stephen Whitefield. Issue dimensionality and party competition in turbulent times. Party Politics, 25 (1), pp.93, 2019, Party Politics. ⟨hal-02294850⟩
  • Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny. New wine in old bottles: Explaining the dimensional structure of European party systems. Party Politics, 2019, 25 (1), pp.12-24. ⟨10.1177/1354068817752518⟩. ⟨hal-02184119⟩
  • Allison E. Rovny, Jan Rovny. The Dual Dualization of Europe. Bruno Palier; Philip Manow; Bruno Palier; Hanna Schwander. Welfare Democracies and Party Politics, Oxford University Press, pp.281 - 297, 2018, 9780198807971. ⟨hal-02393323⟩
  • Jan Rovny, Bruno Palier, Allison E. Rovny. European Disunion? Social and Economic Divergence in Europe, and their Political Consequences. Philip Manow; Bruno Palier; Hanna Schwander. Welfare Democracies and Party Politics, Oxford University Press, pp.29 - 60, 2018, 9780198807971. ⟨hal-02393321⟩
  • Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny. Welfare Democracies and Multidimensional Party Competition in Europe. Philip Manow; Bruno Palier; Hanna Schwander. Welfare Democracies and Party Politics, Oxford University Press, 2018, 9780198807971. ⟨hal-02385141⟩
  • Anna Rovna, Jan Rovny. The Czech Republic and the European Union. Oxford Research Encyclopedias, 2018, pp.1-22. ⟨10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.507⟩. ⟨hal-02186280⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Three lessons from the Czech presidential election. 2018. ⟨hal-02282485⟩
  • Jan Rovny. What happened to Europe’s left?. 2018. ⟨hal-02282483⟩
  • Bruno Palier, Allison E. Rovny, Jan Rovny. European Disunion? Social and Economic Divergence in Europe, and their Political Consequences. 2017. ⟨hal-02177822⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Election reaction: The Czech Republic shifts toward the Polish and Hungarian model. 2017. ⟨hal-02282490⟩
  • Zhen Jie Im, Nonna Mayer, Bruno Palier, Jan Rovny. The “losers of digitalization”: A Reservoir of Votes for the Far-Right?. Yangho Rhee. The Political Economy of Inequality and Social Integration, Korea Economic Daily, pp.89 - 109, 2017, 9788947542166. ⟨hal-02385235⟩
  • Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny. Anti-Elite/Establishment Rhetoric and Party Positioning on European Integration. Chinese Political Science Review, 2017, 2 (3), pp.356-371. ⟨10.1007/s41111-017-0068-9⟩. ⟨hal-02184192⟩
  • Allison E. Rovny, Jan Rovny. Outsiders at the ballot box: operationalizations and political consequences of the insider–outsider dualism. Socio-Economic Review, 2017, 15 (1), pp.161-185. ⟨10.1093/ser/mww039⟩. ⟨hal-02186312⟩
  • Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Ryan Bakker, Erica Edwards, Liesbet Hooghe, et al.. Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data. Research & Politics, 2017, 4 (1), pp.1-9. ⟨10.1177/2053168016686915⟩. ⟨hal-02184197⟩
  • Jan Rovny, Jonathan Polk. Stepping in the same river twice: Stability amidst change in Eastern European party competition. European Journal of Political Research, 2016, 56 (1), pp.188-198. ⟨10.1111/1475-6765.12163⟩. ⟨hal-02187886⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Hungary and Poland’s anti-democratic turn: a new era or more of the same?. 2016. ⟨hal-01295781⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Is Eastern Europe Uniformly Anti-Immigrant? Not so fast.. LIEPP Policy Brief, 2016, 24, ⟨10.25647/liepp.pb.24⟩. ⟨hal-01295780⟩
  • Jessica Flakne, Jan Rovny. Populism in Eastern Europe: Fringe or Mainstream?. Populism in Europe: Realities and Interpretations, Feb 2016, Sciences Po, Centre d'histoire, Paris, France. ⟨hal-02385474⟩
  • Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny. Fuzzy or Veering? Party Positioning, Voter Congruence, and Electoral Support for Radical Right Parties in Western Europe. 2016 ECPR General Conference Prague, Sep 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. ⟨hal-02385473⟩
  • Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny. Fuzzy or Veering? Party Positioning, Voter Congruence, and Electoral Support for Radical Right Parties in Western Europe. OXPO workshop "Issue Dimensionality and Party Competition", Jan 2016, Oxford, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-02385472⟩
  • Filip Kostelka, Jan Rovny. Looking in a Carnival Mirror: Ideology and Protest Participation in Old and New Democracies. 2016 ECPR General Conference Prague, Sep 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. ⟨hal-02297151⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Riker and Rokkan: Remarks on the Strategy and Structure of Party Competition. Party Politics, 2015, 21 (6), pp.912-918. ⟨10.1177/1354068815602588⟩. ⟨hal-02186366⟩
  • Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny. Worlds of Welfare and Multidimensional Party Competition in Europe. Party Competition and Voter Alignments in Times of Welfare State Transformation”, Jun 2015, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. ⟨hal-02385929⟩
  • Nonna Mayer, Jan Rovny, Nicolas Sauger, Allison E. Rovny. Outsiderness, Social Class, and Votes in the 2014 European Elections. Revue européenne des sciences sociales (Cahiers Vilfredo Pareto), 2015, 53 (1), pp.157 - 176. ⟨hal-02186391⟩
  • Jan Rovny. Party Competition Structure in Eastern Europe: Aggregate Uniformity versus Idiosyncratic Diversity?. East European Politics and Societies, 2015, 29 (1), pp.40-60. ⟨10.1177/0888325414567535⟩. ⟨hal-01295789⟩
  • Jan Rovny, Kevin Deegan-Krause, Stephen Whitefield, Tim Haughton. All tomorrow’s parties? The future (and past) of politics in Eastern Europe. 2015. ⟨hal-02393324⟩

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