Mag. Dr. Martin Dolezal
Postdoctoral Researcher

Rudolfskai 42, 5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044 – 6622
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Room: 108
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Martin Dolezal is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science as well as at the  Institute of Public Law and Political Science at the University of Graz. He is also a fellow at the  Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna.

After studying political science at the University of Vienna (PhD 2000) he was a member of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) „Reflexive Modernity“ at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (2002–2005), then at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU) (2005–2009) where he earned his Habilitation degree in 2011. From 2009 until 2015 he was assistant professor at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna and worked in the supply-side team of the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES); afterwards he led a project funded by the FWF on political protest in Austria. From 2019 to 2022 he was a member of the Horizon 2020 project “Populism and Civic Engagement” (PaCE). Since November 2022 he has been engaged in the FWF-project “Populism and Conspiracy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Linking Discourses and Attitudes in Four European Countries”.

Dolezal’s research primarily focuses on issues of political participation and party competition.  Google Scholar lists all publications,  PLUS Research all publications and scientific activities since 2019.