Research

Published Journal Articles

• Walz, Kevin. 2025. What is anti-pluralism? Outlines, varieties, and application contexts of a (re)emerged concept. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft: 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-024-00622-x

• Walz, Kevin, Lion Merten, Matthias Rosenthal, Jana Niedringhaus und Johannes Helgest. 2025. From latest buzzword to conceptual framework: Unraveling the complexities of democratic resilience. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft: 1–30.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-024-00618-7

Work in Progress

• “Anti-Pluralists, Democratic Erosion, and the Breakdown Resilience of Democratic Regimes”(Dissertation Book Project).

• “Between Democratic Resilience and Pitfalls of Re-Democratization: Lessons from Slovenia and Poland” (Working Paper)

• With Carmen Wintergerst, “Democratic Resilience in (Autocratic) Asia” (Working Paper)

• “A three-dimensional Conceptualization of Autocratization – How it started, how it’s going, and how we can systemize Research on Democratic Breakdown and Survival” (revised Working Paper; see this blogpost for a brief summary)