Jan Pakulski

Jan Pakulski, MA (Warsaw), PhD (ANU), is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), Affiliate w Stanford Centre for Poverty and Inequality, and from 2015 staff member in Collegium Civitas. He is the author-editor of 12 books and over 120 scholarly articles on political elites, democratization, multiculturalism, post-communism, social movements, and social inequality. His most recent books are Toward Leader Democracy (with Andras Korosenyi, Anthem, 2012), Violence and the State (co-edited and co-written with Matt Killingsworth and Matthew Sussex, MUP 2015), Leadership Failures in Australian Politics (with Bruce Tranter, Palgrave 2015), and Visegrad Countries in Crisis (edited, Res Publica 2017).