Dr. Eliška Drápalová
Short bio
Dr. Eliška Drápalová has been a research fellow at the WZB since January 2022. Prior to that, she was involved as a guest researcher. She obtained her PhD in Political Economy from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Organizations, Management and Leadership Cluster of the Hertie School in Berlin as well as the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Eliška is a comparative political scientist and administration scholar interested in the quality of government and regulation in cities, smart cities and the effect of technology on public administration. She co-directs a DFG-funded project on regulating platform companies in EU cities and regions together with Prof. Kai Wegrich from the Hertie School (Berlin).
Link to the project website: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/research/research-directory/regulate
Research fields
CV
Jan 2022- present Senior Research Fellow, Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB), at the Digitalisation and Societal Transformation group and Politics of Digitalisation group (POLDI), Germany
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 MSCA – Vinnova Postdoctoral Fellow, QoG and Department of Political Science, GöteborgUniversity, Sweden
Sep 2018 – Nov 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow and Administrative Coordinator to State, Risk and Society Project (STARS), Hertie School, Berlin
Sep 2015 – Sep 2018 Postdoctoral fellow at the Organisations, Management and Leadership Cluster, Hertie School, Berlin
Sep 2016 – Sep 2018 Fritz-Thyssen Postdoctoral Fellow and Principal Investigator of the Research Projecttitled: ‘Explaining the Varieties of Performance of Local Governments across New and Old Democracies.’
May 2016 - Aug 2016 Research collaborator on the project: The Adjustments of Regional Governments to the Fiscal Constraints: A Study of Policy Divergence,University of Nottingham, Department of Political Science, UK
Selected Publications
Drápalová Eliška and Kai Wegrich (2024) Platforms´ regulatory disruptiveness and local regulatory outcomes in Europe. Internet Policy Review (12)2:1-27
Drápalová Eliška (2024) ‘Perso Nella Confusione: La Politica Locale Negli Studi Sul Populismo’. In Mattia Zulianello and Petra Guasti (eds) Capire Il Populismo, Torino: UTET Università, pp 232–34.
Drápalová Eliška (2024) "Thorns in the Side: Strategies of populist parties against local public administrations." Governance (37)1: 83-99. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12843
Drápalová Eliška (2023) „Die Flitterwochen sind zu Ende. Die neue Härte europäischer Städte im Umgang mit Online-Plattformen“ (The honeymoon is over.Regulatory backlash against platform companies in European cities), WZB Mitteilungen Quartalsheft für Sozialforschung, Nr. 181.Pp: 52-55
Drápalová Eliška and Kai Wegrich (2021) Technocratic Populism and Subnational Governance, Government and Opposition 56(4) 640-660 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2020.16
Drápalová Eliška (2021) ‘Technocratic-Populist Mayors and Public Administration in Three European Cities’ in Michael W. Bauer, Guy B. Peters, Jon Pierre, Kutsal Yesilkagitand Stefan Becker (eds.) Populists, Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 127- 151
Drápalová Eliška (2021) ‘Down-to-earth. What we can learn from studying corruption at the local level,’ in Marcia Grimes, Bo Rothstein, Monika Bauhr (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Quality of Government, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Drápalová Eliška and Fabrizio Di Mascio (2020) ‘Islands of Good Government: Explaining Successful Corruption Control in Two Spanish Cities’, Politics and Governance 8(2): 128-139. DOI: 10.17645/pag.v8i2.2730
Drápalová Eliška, and Kai Wegrich (2020) ‘Who Governs 4.0? Varieties of Smart Cities’, Public Management Review 22(5) 668-686. DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1718191.
Dacian C. Dragos, Drápalová Eliška, A. T. Marseille (2018), ‘A Brief Comparative Outlook on the Regulation of Parties, Procedure, and Exceptions in Different FOIAs’ in Dacian C. Dragos, Polonca Kovač, A. T. Marseille (eds.) The Laws of Transparency in Action: A European Perspective, Palgrave, pp 599-639
Drápalová Eliška and Davide Vampa (2018) ‘The Decline of Traditional Partisanship in Spanish Municipalities: Corruption, Inequality and Territorial Mobilisation’, Representation, 54(4): 349-365, DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2018.1539029
2022-2025 German Research Council (DFG) funding for project ‘REGULATE: Recasting the Regulatory State? Comparing the patterns of regulating platform companies across EU cities and sectors.’
2020 – 2022 Vinnova Postdoctoral project "CAPA-city: Collective action, political accountability and administrative capacity in city government", QoG and Department of Political Science, GöteborgUniversity, Sweden
2016- 2018 Fritz-Thyssen Postdoctoral Stipend for Research Project ‘Explaining the Varieties of Performance of Local Governments across New and Old Democracies’