Nikolay Marinov

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Nikolay Marinov (* approx. 1972/73 in Varna ) is a Bulgarian political scientist . He has been professor for empirical democracy research at the University of Mannheim since 2016. In his research, he focuses on the influence of foreign countries on democratization processes and elections in other countries, on information wars and on economic sanctions .

Career

Nikolay Marinov began studying political science at the American University in Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria) in 1991 . In 1996 he completed his bachelor's degree as the best in his year. A scholarship program he took then in the United States at Stanford University , a master's degree in economics in which he finished 1,998th He then began a doctoral degree in political science at Stanford and received his Ph.D. in 2003 under the supervision of Michael Tomz. awarded.

From 2003 to 2004 Marinov was a Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and from 2004 to 2005 at the Institute for International Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 2005 he was awarded a temporary assistant professorship at Yale University .

After that, eight years later, Marinov left the USA in 2013 and came to Germany, where he took up a position as junior professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Mannheim . In 2016 he received a professorship at the chair for empirical democracy research within the department.

In 2012, together with Susan Hyde , Marinov published National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy (NELDA) , an extensive data set of all national elections that took place between 1945 and 2006 in states with more than 500,000 inhabitants. Since then (as of November 2017), this has been used or cited over 370 times in other scientific papers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stanford, Yale, Mannheim , Mannheimer Morgen, April 25, 2014.
  2. ↑ CV Michael Tomz , p. 12.
  3. ^ Susan Hyde, Nikolay Marinov: Which Elections Can Be Lost? . In: Political Analysis , Volume 20, No. 2, 2012, pp. 191–201.
  4. ↑ See website of the NELDA project.
  5. ↑ Profile Marinov at Google Scholar .
personal data
SURNAME Marinov, Nikolay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Varna