Endre Borbáth is a Junior Professor for Empirical-Analytical Participation Research at the Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University. He is also affiliated with the Center for Civil Society Research at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center as a guest researcher. His research interests include political participation, party competition, social movements, protest politics, civil society, cleavages, and comparative politics, with a regional focus on Western and Central Eastern Europe. He is particularly interested in the interaction between electoral and protest politics. Prior to his current roles, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at both the Freie Universität Berlin and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He earned his PhD in December 2018 from the European University Institute.

Research interests: party competition, political participation, social movements, and protest politics