Gregorz Ekiert

Political Scientist

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x213
E-Mail: ekiert@fas.harvard.edu


Biographical Statement

Ekiert is a professor of government 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), and Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (co-edited with S. Hanson, 2003). His papers have appeared in numerous social science journals and edited volumes. His current projects explore patterns of civil-society development in new democracies in Central Europe and East Asia, the state of democracy in the postcommunist world, and the impact of EU membership on postcommunist democracies. Ekiert is the editor of the CES Working Papers Series on Central and Eastern Europe.