About

Natasha Wunsch is Assistant Professor in Political Science/European Integration at Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and an SNSF Ambizione Fellow with the Center for Comparative and International Studies of ETH Zurich. Prior to this, Natasha was an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow with the European Politics Group at ETH Zurich (2017-2019) and an Ernst Mach Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for South-East European Studies at the University of Graz (2016-2017). She holds a PhD in Political Science from University College London. Natasha’s research lies at the intersection between European Politics and Comparative Democratisation. She is interested in how EU integration shapes the political transformation process of aspiring member states and how, in turn, democratic backsliding and the rise of illiberal trends among member states affects cooperation at the EU level. Since 2018, Natasha has been a member of the executive committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on the European Union.

Research Interests

Europe (Central and Eastern), Civil Society, Comparative Politics, Democracy, Democratisation, European Politics, European Union, Political Parties, Candidate, Methods, Qualitative, Political Engagement, Political Regime

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• European Union
• Central and East European Politics
• Parliaments
• Extremism and Democracy
• Political Culture
• Affective Polarization