PROFILE
PhD, Harvard University
Dr Gergana Dimova is a lecturer in politics and international relations at the Florida State University centre in London. She was previously a researcher and lecturer at the University of Cambridge and the University of Winchester in the UK. Dr Dimova is the convenor of the Anti-Politics Specialist Group of the UK Political Science Association. She is an associate editor of the journal Democratic Theory. She co-founded the Institute for Global Analytics in Bulgaria.
ACTIVITIES
- Accountability of International Organizations (2019-2023)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
- “Democracy beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age” (Palgrave London, 2019)
- “Political Uncertainty: A Comparative Exploration” (Ibidem Press, 2021)
Peer reviewed articles and book chapters
- “Democratic Procedures are not Inherently Democratic,” forthcoming in Democratic Theory, 2021, 8 (1).
- “Using the Comparative Method in Democratic Theory: A Solution to the “File Drawer Problem”?” forthcoming in Comparative Democratic Theory 2021, 1(1).
- “Russia’s 2014 Annexation of Crimea in Historical Context: Discourses and Controversies”, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 2020, 6 (1).
- “Legal Loopholes and Judicial Debates: Essays on Russia’s 2014 Annexation of Crimea and Its Consequences for International Law”, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 2019, 5 (1)
- “Government Responses to Media Allegations: A Comparison between an Established and a Managed Democracy”, Global Media Journal, 2019, 9 (2).
- “The 2017 Anti-Corruption Protests in Romania: Causes, Mechanisms, Consequences”, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 2019, 15 (1).
- “Politicizing Government Accountability: The Case of Protest Network and the Model “Who?” in Bulgaria,” in Donmez and Stranding (eds.) “Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe: Governance, Resistance and Anti-politics” (Palgrave Macmilian, 2018)
- “Investigating the Trump Scandal: Implications for Democracy and Political Risk”, Journal of Political Risk, 2017, 5 (5).
Media Posts
- “A rigorous debate on intra-disciplinary boundaries and democracy” The Loop Science of Democracy series.
- Cited in “Bulgarian national radio chief hits out at media interference from state”, Euronews, November 17, 2020
- “Bringing in the Experts: Blame Deflection and the COVID-19 Crisis", 3/04/2020, LSE Blog Post (with Matthew Flinders)
- Anti-Politics: Anatomy of Public Anger, 30/04/2020, LSE Blog Post (with Eva Polonska)