Algis Krupavičius

Algis Krupavičius is Professor at the Faculty of Public Governance and Business, Mykolas Romeris University. His main research areas include comparative politics, political sociology, comparative public policy, quantitative and qualitative research methods, survey research, content analysis, AI and computational social science.

He was the first president of Lithuanian Political Science Association. In 2014 – 2021 he was Deputy Chair of General Assembly of European Social Survey, also in 2017 – 2021 member of Standing Committee of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). Now he is a member of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Presidential Politics and Standing Group on Political Parties.

He was visiting senior research fellow, King’s College, University of London, also visiting professor, Northwestern University (USA). He had number of grants and fellowships including from Lithuanian Research Council, Social Science Research Council (USA), American Council of Learned Societies. Since 2019 he is a member of the Committee of independent eminent persons, the Council of the European Union.

He is a member of several editorial boards, including East European Quarterly, Polish Political Science Review. Polski Przegląd Politologiczny, Socialiniai mokslai (Social Sciences), Journal of Baltic Studies, Baltic Journal of Political Science and others.

Algis Krupavičius was leading various teams of researchers to put Lithuania on a map of well-known international scholarly and research infrastructural projects as MARPOR (Manifesto Research on Political Representation), European Election Studies (EES), International Social Survey Program, European Social Survey, Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA).

Among his recent publications are as follows:

  • “Litewski semiprezydencjalizm: korzenie, konstrukcja, wyzwania” [Lithuanian semi-presidentialism: roots, structure, challenges]. In Udana transformacja na peryferiach? / pod redakcją Justinasa Dementavič,usa i Artura Wołka. Kraków: Ośrodek Myśli Politycznej, 2014, p. 131-176.
  • With Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė. (2014) Predicting party group from the Lithuanian parliamentary speeches // Informacinės technologijos ir valdymas = Information technology and control /, T. 43, nr. 3, p. 321-332.
  • The 2014 referendum in Lithuania. East European Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1, March 2015, p. 129-136.
  • With Vitalija Simonaitytė (2016) Organization of Political Parties: The Case of Lithuania. In Sobolewska-Myslik K., Kosowska-Gąstoł B., Borowiec P. (eds), Organizational Structures of Political Parties in Central and Eastern European Countries. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, p. 251- 276.
  • Lithuania in Comparative Perspective: From Transition to Flawed Democracy. In Central European Political Science Review, Vol. 21, No. 82, 2020, p. 87- 107.
  • Krupavičius, Algis, Šarkutė, Ligita (eds., 2021) Kas ką gauna, kada ir kaip: partijų ir interesų grupių sąveika Europos demokratijose [Who gets what, when, and how: the interaction of parties and interest groups in European democracies]. Vilnius: MRU.
  • Lithuania in Comparative Perspective: From Transition to Flawed Democracy. In Janos S. (ed. 2022) 30 éve szabadon Közép-Európában. Budapest: Ludovika könyvek, p. 83- 100

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