PD Dr. Seongcheol Kim
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- since 6/2025: Postdoctoral researcher / sessional Teaching Fellow, University College Freiburg, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
- 10/2024–3/2025: Interim Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bremen
- 7/2023: Habilitation and venia legendi in Political Science, University of Bremen; Privatdozent (PD Dr.), Institute for Political Science, University of Bremen
- 6/2022–5/2025: Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Intercultural and International Studies / Affiliated researcher, Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
- 6/2020–5/2022: Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kassel / Affiliated researcher, Center for Civil Society Research, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
- 5/2020: Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Political Science, Humboldt University of Berlin
- 2016–2020: Research Fellow, Research Unit “Democracy and Democratization,” WZB Berlin Social Science Center / Doctoral candidate, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt University of Berlin
- 6/2016: MA Political Science, Free University of Berlin
- 6/2014: AB German & Politics, Princeton University
Languages:
English, German (primary languages); Korean (first language); Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (all standard variants), Czech, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian (full professional working proficiency)
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- Kim, Seongcheol/Karavasilis, Lazaros/Nonhoff, Martin (2026): Party Organisation after the Square Movements in Europe. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press [forthcoming, in production].
- Kim, Seongcheol (2024): Bewegungsparteien und Volksparteien neuen Typs. Neue Formen politischer Organisation in Europa. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus. 209 pp.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2024): Populismus? Frag doch einfach! Stuttgart: UTB. 140 pp.
- Kim, Seongcheol/Greef, Samuel/Schroeder, Wolfgang (2022): The Far Right in the Workplace: A Six-Country Comparison. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 250 pp.
- Kim, Seongcheol/Greef, Samuel/Schroeder, Wolfgang (2022): Rechte Akteure im Betrieb. Sechs EU-Länder im Vergleich. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 241 pp.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2022): Discourse, Hegemony, and Populism in the Visegrád Four. Abingdon/New York: Routledge. 334 pp.
- Kim, Seongcheol/Selk, Veith (Eds.) (2025): An Anti-Populist Moment? [Special Issue]. Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly, Online First.
- Eder-Ramsauer, Andreas/Kim, Seongcheol/Knott, Andy (Eds.) (2022): Populism, Radicalism, Protest: Ten Years after the Movements of the Squares [Special Issue]. Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 16(2). 164 pp.
- Eder-Ramsauer, Andreas/Kim, Seongcheol/Knott, Andy/Prentoulis, Marina (Eds.) (2022): Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organisation. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 202 pp.
- Kim, Seongcheol/Nonhoff, Martin (Eds.) (2022): Platzproteste zehn Jahre danach. Eine Bestandsaufnahme [Thematic Issue]. Mittelweg 36, 31 (4). 96 pp.
- Kim, Seongcheol/Selk, Veith (Eds.) (2021): Wie weiter mit der Populismusforschung? Baden-Baden: Nomos. 320 pp.
- Kim, Seongcheol/Agridopoulos, Aristotelis (Eds.) (2020): Populismus, Diskurs, Staat. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 278 pp.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2026): Between Movement Party and Class Vanguard: Activist Models of Party Organization on the Radical Left in Western Europe. New Political Science [forthcoming].
- Kim, Seongcheol/Selk, Veith (2025): Introduction: An Anti-Populist Moment? Exploring the Politics of Anti-Populism. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, DOI: 10.1007/s11615-025-00629-3 (Online First).
- Kim, Seongcheol (2025): The (Anti-)Political Logic of Authoritarian Institutionalism: Party Politics and Authoritarian Consolidation in Russia. Journal of Language and Politics, DOI: 10.1075/jlp.24041.kim.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2025): Far-Right Movement Parties in Europe: Two Perspectives [Research Note]. Nations and Nationalism, 31 (3), pp. 642–650.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2025): Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of “the Russian People” in Volodymyr Zelensky’s Wartime Speeches. Government and Opposition, 60 (1), pp. 229–245.
- Kim, Seongcheol/Karavasilis, Lazaros/Nonhoff, Martin (2024): Performativity and Political Organization after the Squares: Rethinking Horizontality and Verticality. Journal of Political Ideologies, DOI: 10.1080/13569317.2024.2413593.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2024): Anti-Populism Left, Right, and Centre: Varieties of Anti-Populist Party Politics in the European “Populist Moment”. Politische Vierteljahresschrift/
- Dollbaum, Jan Matti/Kim, Seongcheol (2024): Going Jingo: A Classification of the Wartime Positions of Russia’s “Systemic Opposition” Parties. Post-Soviet Affairs, 40 (3), pp. 222–241.
- Kim, Seongcheol/Mondon, Aurelien (2024): From Objectivist Bias to Positivist Bias: A Constructivist Critique of the Attitudes Approach to Populism. Political Studies Review, 22 (4), pp. 985–999.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2024): Movement Parties of the Left, Right, and Center: A Discursive-Organizational Approach. Constellations, 31 (3), pp. 399–413.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2024): On Populism and Class Politics: The Polish Union of Labour and the Workers Party of Belgium [Research Note]. Representation, 60 (3), pp. 535–543.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2024): The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 32 (4), pp. 936–947.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2023): “Illiberal Democracy” after Post-Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary. The Political Quarterly, 94 (3), pp. 437–444.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2023): Between Autonomy and Representation: Toward a Post-Foundational Discourse Analytic Framework for the Study of Horizontality and Verticality. Critical Discourse Studies, 20 (4), pp. 345–360.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2023): Far-Right Local Governments and Civil Society: Findings from France and Italy [Early Results]. Political Studies Review, 21 (1), pp. 183–189.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2022): Between Radical Democracy and Left Populism on the Margins: Protest Politics and Organization in the Left Front (Russia) and the Left Opposition (Ukraine). Journal for the Study of Radicalism [Special Issue “Populism, Radicalism, Protest”], 16 (2), pp. 113–130.
- Kim, Seongcheol/Borbáth, Endre (2022): A Typology of Postcommunist Successor Parties in Central and Eastern Europe and an Explanatory Framework for Their (Non-)Success. East Central Europe, 49 (2/3), pp. 277–311.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2022): Von Lefort zu Mouffe. Populismus als Moment und Grenze radikaler Demokratie. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 32 (4), pp. 767–786.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2022): Taking Stock of the Field of Populism Research: Are Ideational Approaches “Moralistic” and Post-Foundational Discursive Approaches “Normative”? Politics, 42 (4), pp. 492–504.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2021): … Because the Homeland Cannot Be in Opposition: Analysing the Discourses of Fidesz and Law and Justice (PiS) from Opposition to Power. East European Politics, 37 (2), pp. 332–351.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2020): Between Illiberalism and Hyper-Neoliberalism: Competing Populist Discourses in the Czech Republic. European Politics and Society, 21 (5), pp. 618–633.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2020): Radical Democracy and Left Populism after the Squares: “Social Movement” (Ukraine), Podemos (Spain), and the Question of Organization. Contemporary Political Theory, 19 (2), pp. 211–232.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2017): The Populism of the Alternative for Germany (AfD): An Extended Essex School Perspective. Palgrave Communications, 3 (5), pp. 1–11.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2017): Between Milieu and Vacuum: Organizational, Programmatic, and Electoral Strategies of the Former Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) Reexamined. Politologický časopis/Czech Journal of Political Science, 24 (3), pp. 302–329.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2017): “Autonomie” Revisited: The Autonomist Crossroads in the West German Student Movement’s Long March. Contemporanea, 20 (1), pp. 63–86.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2024): Central and Eastern Europe. In: Katsambekis, Giorgos/ Stavrakakis, Yannis (Eds.): Research Handbook on Populism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 422–432.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2023): From Berlin to Budapest and Back: “Illiberal democracy” and the Mirror of Neoliberal Post-Democracy. In: Kolozova, Katerina/Milanese, Niccolò (Eds.): “Illiberal Democracies” in Europe: An Authoritarian Response to the Crisis of Liberalism. Washington: Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University, pp. 59–68.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2022): Populism, Radical Democracy, and Political Organisation: Movement Parties and People’s Parties of a New Type. In: Eder-Ramsauer, Andreas/Kim, Seongcheol/Knott, Andy/Prentoulis, Marina (Eds.): Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organisation. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 38–54.
- Kim, Seongcheol/Nonhoff, Martin (2022): Bewegungsparteien und Volksparteien neuen Typs. Konturen einer Forschungsagenda. In: Kim, Seongcheol/Nonhoff, Martin (Eds.): Platzproteste zehn Jahre danach. Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Mittelweg 36, 31 (4), pp. 5–16.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2021): Zwischen ‚Moralismus‘ und ‚Normativität‘ der Populismusforschung. Ein Vermittlungsversuch. In: Kim, Seongcheol/Selk, Veith (Eds.): Wie weiter mit der Populismusforschung? Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 73–92.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2021): Populism and Anti-Populism in the 2017 Dutch, French, and German Elections: A Re-Politicisation of Post-Politics? In: Wiesner, Claudia (Eds.): Rethinking Politicisation in Politics, Sociology and International Relations. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107–128.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2020): Zwischen autoritärem Institutionalismus und Populismus. Die illiberal-nationalistischen Staatsprojekte in Ungarn und Polen. In: Kim, Seongcheol/Agridopoulos, Aristotelis (Eds.): Populismus, Diskurs, Staat. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 211–234.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2020): ‚Illiberal-demokratische‘ Legitimität. Eine konzeptuelle Annäherung und empirische Veranschaulichung am Beispiel des Bundestagswahlkampfs 2017. In: Kneip, Sascha/Merkel, Wolfgang/Weßels, Bernhard (Eds.): Legitimitätsprobleme. Zur Lage der Demokratie in Deutschland. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 205–222.
- Agridopoulos, Aristotelis/Kim, Seongcheol (2019): Populismus. In: Comtesse, Dagmar/Flügel-Martinsen, Oliver/Martinsen, Franziska/Nonhoff, Martin (Eds.): Radikale Demokratietheorie. Ein Handbuch, Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 593–603.
- Kulesza, Aleksandra/Kim, Seongcheol (2017): Direkte Demokratie in Polen. In: Merkel, Wolfgang/Ritzi, Claudia (Eds.): Die Legitimität direkter Demokratie. Wie demokratisch sind Volksabstimmungen? Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 101–120.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2025): Populismus in Europa: Aktuelle Trends. In: Bürger & Staat, 75 (4) [forthcoming].
- Kim, Seongcheol (2025): Moldova’s Squares Moment Revisited: The Short-Lived ACUM Alliance and the Realignment of Moldovan Party Politics. Moldovan Analytical Digest, 2, pp. 2–5.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2025): Review Essay: (Left) Populism and Radical Democracy Today. Social Movement Studies, 24 (1), pp. 136–138.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2024): Ten Years of PEGIDA: A Reflection on “deutsche Zustände.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 32 (3), pp. 733–740.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2023): Selenskyjs Appelle an russische Staatsbürger:innen im ersten Jahr des russischen Aggressionskriegs gegen die Ukraine. Ukraine-Analysen, 292, pp. 11–14.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2023): Linke Gruppierungen und unabhängige Gewerkschaften in Belarus im Schatten des Krieges in der Ukraine. Belarus-Analysen, 65, pp. 10–12.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2022): Die Linke in Russland und der Krieg in der Ukraine. Russland-Analysen, 424, pp. 2–4.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2022): Das Ende eines Zyklus? Podemos und France Insoumise als Volksparteien neuen Typs. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 35 (3), pp. 441–451.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2022): The Russian Invasion in the Context of Post-Bolotnaya Authoritarian Consolidation. Russian Analytical Digest, 281, pp. 7–10.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2021): The Far Right Today. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 8 (3), pp. 362–366.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2020): Hungary. In: Katsambekis, Giorgos/Stavrakakis, Yannis (Eds.): Populism and the Pandemic. POPULISMUS Interventions, 7, pp. 29–30.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2018): Marchart, Oliver (Hrsg.) (2017): Ordnungen des Politischen. Einsätze und Wirkungen der Hegemonietheorie Ernesto Laclaus. Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly 59 (3), pp. 605–608.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2018): Populism and Anti-Populism in the 2017 Dutch, French, and German Elections: A Discourse and Hegemony Analytic Approach. POPULISMUS Working Papers, 7.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2017): Der illiberale Faktor. Eine theoretische Annäherung an Populismus in West- und Ostmitteleuropa. WZB-Mitteilungen, 156, pp. 32–34.
- Kim, Seongcheol (2016): Patrizia Nanz/Claus Leggewie: Die Konsultative. Mehr Demokratie durch Bürgerbeteiligung. Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach 2016. Italian Political Science, 11 (2).
- Kim, Seongcheol (2015): Lesen als Revolte? Rezension zu Philipp Felsch: Der lange Sommer der Theorie. Ethik und Gesellschaft – Ökumenische Zeitschrift für Sozialethik, 2, pp. 1–7.