The third lecture in the Havighurst Center's Spring 2026 colloquium series, "Democracy in Post-Communist Eastern Europe."
Lenka Buštíková grew up in Prague. Before coming to the University of Florida, she taught at the University of Oxford and at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on polarization, party politics and democratic erosion. Her book, Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe, received the Davis Center Book Prize in political and social studies. She currently serves as editor of the journal East European Politics. She is also an editor of Cambridge Elements on Politics and Society from Central Europe to Central Asia and Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems.
