prof. PhDr. Jan Holzer, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Political Science

Office: 4.69
Joštova 218/10
602 00 Brno

Phone:	+420 549 49 4090
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Field of study: Political Science

Electoral Integrity and Electoral Violence: How electoral integrity impacts on the propensity of electoral violence in South Asia? – graduate 2019
Political Theory of Immigration: Possibilities and Limitations of Normative Analysis – graduate 2017
Electoral Violence in the Region of the Western Balkan Countries – graduate 2015
How and Why Indian Democratic State Works – graduate 2012
Definition and structure of opposition in non-democratic regime – graduate 2011
Post Soviet Organized Crime Groups in Russian Federation – graduate 2008
The Character of Political Regimes in the Central Asian Republics – graduate 2008
Current security threats of the Western Balkans Region. Critical analysis of the security concept of the Copenhagen school. – graduate 2006

Communication Strategies of Authorities in East European Authoritarian Regimes – ongoing study
Crisis of democratic Regimes, Consolidation of Democratic and Non-Democratic Regimes, Theory of the anchors of democratization, Latin American Politics, Venezula – ongoing study

Democracy and utopian thinking – ongoing study
The ideological kaleidoscope of Russian elite in the time of late Putinism – graduate 2024
"The Vienna doctrine" of Human Rights. In a Quest for Political Theory of Human Rights. – graduate 2023