Mgr. Michael Drašar

Michael Drašar is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science IPS FSV UK, where is also graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees. He is focused on topics from comparative politics, especially constitutional institutions, with a stress on the role of the head of state, elections, electoral systems, and electoral behaviour. Territorially, he mainly focuses on the area of ​​Central and Eastern Europe. In his dissertation thesis, he deals with the issue of non-partisan presidential candidates. Since 2022 (with a break in 2024), he has been a researcher at the Department of International Relations IPS FSV UK, where he is involved in the GA CR project "Mutual interaction of own and foreign perspectives in political decision-making: the perspective of quantum social science". Since 2022 he is also a junior researcher at the SYRI National Institute. Since October 2023, he has worked at the Centre for Doctoral Studies IPS FSV UK. He is also actively involved in faculty life. From 2023 to 2025, he was a member of the Academic Senate FSV UK; until now, he has participated in the activities of the AS FSV UK Study Committee.

Monographs

Chapters in monographs

Articles

• Drašar M. (2024). Who Holds the Presidential Office? The Evidence from Europe, 1990-2023. Studia Politica, 24(1), 107-137.
• Drašar M. (2024). BRUNCLÍK, Miloš; KUBÁT, Michal; VINCZE, Attila; KINDLOVÁ, Miluše; ANTOŠ, Marek; HORÁK, Filip; HÁJEK, Lukáš (2023). Power Beyond Constitutions: Presidential Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 312 p., ISBN 978-3-031-34243-1. Acta Politologica, 16(1), 85-87.

Contributions in the conference proceedings

Methodology of Social Sciences (JPB150) – winter semester, seminars (in English)
Political Systems in Comparative Perspective (JPB151) – summer semester, seminars (in English)
Introduction to Political Science (JPB198) – summer semester, lectures (in Czech)
Quantitative Methods of Political Research (JPB283) – summer semester, seminars (in Czech)

Elections (electoral systems, electoral behaviour, electoral engineering, spatial analysis of electoral support)
President (position in the political system, presidential powers, relationship to political parties)
Quantitative political research (analysis using statistical methods)
Current political issues in the Czech Republic and other Central European countries

Political and constitutional systems
Heads of state and their role in politics 
Elections and electoral systems
Electoral behaviour
Electoral geography
Quantitative methods in political science
Central European politics
Non-partisanship in elections