Laurențiu Ștefan

Research interests

Romanian politics since 1989; political parties; electoral and political alliances; governing coalitions; government formation, functioning and dissolution; selection and political and non-political backgrounds of prime ministers; selection and composition of political elites; parliamentary, government and local elites; political institutions; political participation.

Short biography

Laurențiu-Mihai Ștefan studied computer science and political science at the University of Bucharest and earned an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 1998. He began teaching at the University of Bucharest in 1999. He worked as an analyst at Mediafax, a political specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest and a presidential adviser from 2015 to 2021.

His research examines Romanian political parties, governments and the recruitment of political elites. He edited Dicționarul de scrieri politice fundamentale and published Patterns of Political Elite Recruitment in Post-Communist Romania and Who Governs Romania?