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Monika Nalepa

Departmental website:
https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/monika-nalepa

Monika Nalepa is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. With a focus on post-communist Europe, her research interests include transitional justice, parties and legislatures, and game-theoretic approaches to comparative politics. Her first book, Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe, was published in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Series and received the Best Book award from the Comparative Democratization section of the APSA and the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the APSA.

She has published her research in the Journal of Comparative Politics, World Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Theoretical Politics and Decyzje. Her next book manuscript, Parties Ascendant, examines the development of programmatic parties in new democracies with a special focus on legislative institutions.

Nalepa Stories

How Putin’s invasion of Ukraine connects to 19th-century Russian imperialism Man holds a Ukraine flag near barbed wire, with a Russian flag visible in the background

How Putin’s invasion of Ukraine connects to 19th-century Russian imperialism

At UChicago event, historian and political scientist discuss context, implications for Russia’s war

Watch UChicago faculty discuss research in new Harper Lectures View of campus from Rockefeller Chapel Tower

Watch UChicago faculty discuss research in new Harper Lectures

Virtual events will cover development economics, physics, democracy and more

Books you should read this summer, according to UChicago faculty Summer reading

Books you should read this summer, according to UChicago faculty

Faculty teaching award winners share works that brought comfort, joy

UChicago announces 2021 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards A group of students learn outside on the UChicago campus

UChicago announces 2021 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards

Awards recognize faculty for exceptional teaching, mentoring amid unique year

Poland may forcibly ‘retire’ dozens of Supreme Court justices Poland may forcibly ‘retire’ dozens of Supreme Court justices

Poland may forcibly ‘retire’ dozens of Supreme Court justices

<p>In op-ed, Assoc. Prof.&nbsp;Monika Nalepa examines judicial reforms in Poland</p>


The attack on Poland’s judicial independence goes deeper than you may think. Here are 5 things to know.

The attack on Poland’s judicial independence goes deeper than you may think. Here are 5 things to know.

Assoc. Prof. Monika Nalepa explains Poland’s judicial crisis


This is what the gradual erosion of rule of law looks like in Poland

This is what the gradual erosion of rule of law looks like in Poland

Assoc. Prof. Monika Nalepa examines attempts to subvert the Polish judiciary


Here’s the academic evidence on cheating in post-communist countries

Here’s the academic evidence on cheating in post-communist countries

Assoc. Prof. Monika Nalepa explains how legacy of communism affects academic norms


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