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Natasha Wunsch

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Full Professor of European Studies

University of Fribourg

Switzerland

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Natasha Wunsch is a Full Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her research primarily focuses on themes related to democratic backsliding, political polarization, and the responses to Euroscepticism within the European Parliament. Recent articles authored by Professor Wunsch explore the implications of democratic decline and political attitudes in the context of the geopolitical landscape following events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Recent Grants

Grant: Open

10005358 - Liberal Democratic Commitment in Europe: Mass Attitudes, Political Identity, and Behavioural Consequences

Open Date: 2025-11-01

Close Date: 2029-10-31

Grant: Close

Democratic Commitment: Why Citizens Tolerate Democratic Backsliding

Open Date: 2025-05-01

Close Date: 2025-10-31

Grant: Close

Explaining popular support for democratic backsliding in Hungary

Open Date: 2021-04-01

Close Date: 2021-12-01

Grant: Close

Democratic backsliding and the politicisation of European integration: structures and impact of parliamentary discourses

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2022-12-01

Grant: Close

Democratic Backsliding in Eastern Europe: Sequence, Strategies, and Citizens

Open Date: 2019-09-01

Close Date: 2024-02-29

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Collaborators (6)

Antoaneta Dimitrova

Full professor

Leiden University

NETHERLANDS

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Marc Jacob

University of Notre Dame

UNITED STATES

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Theresa Gessler

Professor for Political Science with a Focus on Democratic Political Decision-Making

Universität Hamburg

GERMANY

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Marie-Eve Bélanger

Senior Lecturer

University of Geneva

SWITZERLAND

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Mihail Chiru

Associate Professor

University of Oxford

UNITED KINGDOM

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Philippe Blanchard

University of Warwick

UNITED KINGDOM

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Articles (12)

Pathways to hybridity: an analytical framework for the study of competing diffusion forces in EU democracy promotion

Does ideology trump geography? Political divides and MEP responses to democratic backsliding

A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization

A geopolitical turning point? Enlargement discourse after the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Demand Side of Democratic Backsliding: How Divergent Understandings of Democracy Shape Political Choice

Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament

Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary

Patterns of democratic backsliding in third-wave democracies: a sequence analysis perspective

Democratic backsliding as a catalyst for polity-based contestation? Populist radical right cooperation in the European Parliament

From Cohesion to Contagion? Populist Radical Right Contestation of EU Enlargement

From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession

Money, power, glory: the linkages between EU conditionality and state capture in the Western Balkans

Collaborators (6)

Antoaneta Dimitrova

Marc Jacob

Theresa Gessler

Marie-Eve Bélanger

Mihail Chiru

Philippe Blanchard

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