Dr Petar Bankov

  • Lecturer (Political & International Studies)

telephone: 01413302553
email: Petar.Bankov@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

Room 505, 40 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947

Biography

My research interests are in comparative party politics, particularly focused on the relations between political parties and citizens at the local level.Additionally, I have published research on political participation, public opinion, populism, and Central and East European politics in in political science and area studies academic journals with high impact factors. My personal belief and professional motivation to explore these topics is to improve and deepen the political participation through improved relations between citizens and parties. I rely on a wide variety of research methods, including qualitative methods (regression analysis, OLS, survey experiments), mixed methods approaches, and qualitative methods (interviews, document analysis). Additionally, I am the communications officer of the PSA Left Radicalism specialist group and a member of the editorial team of the Bulgarian left-wing magazine, dVERSIA.

Research interests

I am happy to supervise PhD dissertations related to a combination of any of these topics:

  • Comparative Politics
  • Party Politics
  • Left-wing politics
  • Political Geography
  • Political Participation
  • Populism
  • Central and Eastern Europe

Research groups

Publications

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Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2017
Number of items: 14.

2025

Claassen, C. et al. (2025) Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe. Electoral Studies, 95, 102912. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102912)

McKay, Lawrence, Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 and Carman, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-0666 (2025) Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives. Electoral Studies, 95, 102937. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102937)

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2025) Maduro’s machines against paper coalitions: party digitalization and narratives on machine voting in Bulgaria. Swiss Political Science Review, (doi: 10.1111/spsr.12648) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Carman, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-0666 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2024) Is there a rural-urban political divide in Britain? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, (doi: 10.1080/17457289.2024.2393587) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2023) Targets and resources. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 56(4), pp. 31-50. (doi: 10.1525/cpcs.2023.1991328)

Gherghina, Sergiu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-5598 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2023) Troublemakers and game changers: how political parties stopped democratic backsliding in Bulgaria. Democratization, (doi: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2250985) (Early Online Publication)

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2023) Europe: North and South. In: Stavrakakis, Y. and Katsambekis, G. (eds.) Elgar Research Handbook on Populism. Edward Elgar. (Accepted for Publication)

2022

Gherghina, Sergiu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-5598, Saikkonen, Inga and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2022) Dissatisfied, uninformed or both? Democratic satisfaction, political knowledge and the acceptance of clientelism in a new democracy. Democratization, 29(2), pp. 211-231. (doi: 10.1080/13510347.2021.1947250)

2021

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947, Gherghina, Sergiu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-5598 and Silagadze, Nanuli (2021) Walking the walk or just talking the talk? VMRO‐BND’s efforts to become a mass party. Politics and Governance, 9(4), pp. 307-316. (doi: 10.17645/pag.v9i4.4562)

2020

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 and Gherghina, Sergiu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-5598 (2020) Post-accession congruence in Bulgaria and Romania: Measuring mass-elite congruence of opinions on European integration through mixed methods. European Political Science, 19(4), pp. 562-572. (doi: 10.1057/s41304-020-00271-0)

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2020) Czech stalemate? The role of party organization for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia since 2010. European Review, 28(5), pp. 826-841. (doi: 10.1017/s1062798720000265)

Gherghina, Sergiu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-5598 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2020) Who follows the referendum campaign? The effect of political interest and media use in Bulgaria. Problems of Post-Communism, (doi: 10.1080/10758216.2020.1760722) (Early Online Publication)

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2020) The fireman’s ball in Bulgaria? A comparison between Sergey Stanishev and Boyko Borisov. In: Gherghina, Sergiu (ed.) Party Leaders in Eastern Europe: Personality, Behavior and Consequences. Series: Palgrave studies in political psychology. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 43-66. ISBN 9783030320249 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32025-6_3)

2017

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2017) As eleições parlamentares búlgaras de 2017: tudo como dantes. Relações Internacionais, 56, pp. 13-37. (doi: 10.23906/ri2017.56a02)

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Number of items: 14.

Articles

Claassen, C. et al. (2025) Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe. Electoral Studies, 95, 102912. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102912)

McKay, Lawrence, Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 and Carman, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-0666 (2025) Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives. Electoral Studies, 95, 102937. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102937)

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2025) Maduro’s machines against paper coalitions: party digitalization and narratives on machine voting in Bulgaria. Swiss Political Science Review, (doi: 10.1111/spsr.12648) (Early Online Publication)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Carman, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-0666 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2024) Is there a rural-urban political divide in Britain? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, (doi: 10.1080/17457289.2024.2393587) (Early Online Publication)

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2023) Targets and resources. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 56(4), pp. 31-50. (doi: 10.1525/cpcs.2023.1991328)

Gherghina, Sergiu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-5598 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2023) Troublemakers and game changers: how political parties stopped democratic backsliding in Bulgaria. Democratization, (doi: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2250985) (Early Online Publication)

Gherghina, Sergiu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-5598, Saikkonen, Inga and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2022) Dissatisfied, uninformed or both? Democratic satisfaction, political knowledge and the acceptance of clientelism in a new democracy. Democratization, 29(2), pp. 211-231. (doi: 10.1080/13510347.2021.1947250)

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947, Gherghina, Sergiu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-5598 and Silagadze, Nanuli (2021) Walking the walk or just talking the talk? VMRO‐BND’s efforts to become a mass party. Politics and Governance, 9(4), pp. 307-316. (doi: 10.17645/pag.v9i4.4562)

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 and Gherghina, Sergiu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-5598 (2020) Post-accession congruence in Bulgaria and Romania: Measuring mass-elite congruence of opinions on European integration through mixed methods. European Political Science, 19(4), pp. 562-572. (doi: 10.1057/s41304-020-00271-0)

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2020) Czech stalemate? The role of party organization for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia since 2010. European Review, 28(5), pp. 826-841. (doi: 10.1017/s1062798720000265)

Gherghina, Sergiu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-5598 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2020) Who follows the referendum campaign? The effect of political interest and media use in Bulgaria. Problems of Post-Communism, (doi: 10.1080/10758216.2020.1760722) (Early Online Publication)

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2017) As eleições parlamentares búlgaras de 2017: tudo como dantes. Relações Internacionais, 56, pp. 13-37. (doi: 10.23906/ri2017.56a02)

Book Sections

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2023) Europe: North and South. In: Stavrakakis, Y. and Katsambekis, G. (eds.) Elgar Research Handbook on Populism. Edward Elgar. (Accepted for Publication)

Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2020) The fireman’s ball in Bulgaria? A comparison between Sergey Stanishev and Boyko Borisov. In: Gherghina, Sergiu (ed.) Party Leaders in Eastern Europe: Personality, Behavior and Consequences. Series: Palgrave studies in political psychology. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 43-66. ISBN 9783030320249 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32025-6_3)

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Grants

  • Research funding from Friedrich Ebert Foundation-Bulgaria for two projects in 2022, total amount €10,000
  • Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship, Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), 2021, €3,000
  • Overseas Fieldwork Allowance, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences (SGSSS), 2017, £3,500
  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Fees Only Studentship via the “Politics and International Relations” Pathway 2016-2018
  • Erasmus Mundus Masters Category B (European) Scholarship, 2012-2014, €20,000

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

Politics 1B: Introduction to Liberal Democracy (since 2015)

Politics 2B: Comparative politics (since 2021)

Politics 1B: International relations (2020)

Politics 1B: Comparative politics (2016-2019)

Central and East European Studies 2B: Central Europe after Communism (2019)

Central and East European Studies 2A: Post-communist Russia and the Former Soviet Union (2018)

Honours teaching

Qualitative methods in the social sciences (since 2022)

The Politics of the Left in Europe (2018)

Postgraduate teaching

Qualitative Research Methods (since 2020)

Additional information

I hold a BA in International Relations from the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and a joint International Masters in Russian, Central, and East European Studies from the University of Glasgow and MA in European Studies from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). It is my research for this double degree program that raised my interest in electoral geography and party politics. My postgraduate thesis focused on the organisational and ideological transformation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party following the fall of the authoritarian communist regime and highlighted the importance of regional and local party organisation and its role within communities for the electoral recovery of communist successor parties. My PhD research expanded this topic towards the electoral geographies of the European radical left. Apart from my academic research, I also have professional experience in non-formal education promoting intercultural exchange.


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