Fernando Casal Bértoa

Fernando Casal Bértoa is an Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations in the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom). Currently, he is Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advance Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. He is co-director of REPRESENT: Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy. Member of the OSCE/ODIHR “Core Group of Political Party Experts”, he is also International IDEA and Westminster Foundation for Democracy collaborator as well as Venice Commission and United Nations expert.
His work has been published in Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Sociological Methods and Research, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Democracy, Electoral Studies, West European Politics, Party Politics, European Political Science Review, and Democratization, among many others.
His latest monograph, winner of the 2022 AECPA Best Book Prize and runner-up for the 2022 Stein Rokkan Prize, is titled Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternative and Democracy in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2021).