PD Dr. Seongcheol Kim
Affiliated researcher
Postdoctoral researcher at the InIIS
seongcheol.kim(at)uni-bremen.de
Areas of research
- European politics and contemporary history
- Political discourse and hegemony analysis
- Political parties and social movements
- Populism: theories, concepts, case analyses
- Theories and study of radical democracy
10/2024 - 3/2025 Interim Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bremen
7/2023 Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Political Science, University of Bremen; Faculty member (Privatdozent) in the Institute for Political Science, University of Bremen
since 6/2022 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen and joint Principal Investigator of the DFG project POPRADEM; Affiliated researcher at the Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO) at the University of Bremen
2020 - 2022 Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Kassel; Visiting researcher at the Center for Civil Society Research at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
5/2020 Doctorate in Political Science (Dr. phil.) at the Humboldt University of Berlin
2016 - 2020 Research Fellow in the Research Unit "Democracy and Democratization", WZB Berlin Social Science Center; Doctoral student at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) of the Humboldt University of Berlin
6/2016 M.A. Political Science, Free University Berlin
6/2014 A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) German & Politics, Princeton University
Languages
English, German (primary languages); Korean (first language); Czech, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian (professional working proficiency)
Publications
Monographs
Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: Bewegungsparteien und Volksparteien neuen Typs. Neue Formen politischer Organisation in Europa. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, 209 pp.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: Populismus? Frag doch einfach! Munich: UVK, 140 pp.
Kim, Seongcheol; Greef, Samuel; Schroeder, Wolfgang, 2022: The Far Right in the Workplace: A Six-Country Comparison, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 250 pp.
Kim, Seongcheol; Greef, Samuel; Schroeder, Wolfgang, 2022: Rechte Akteure im Betrieb. Sechs EU-Länder im Vergleich, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 241 pp.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2022: Discourse, Hegemony, and Populism in the Visegrád Four, Abingdon und New York: Routledge, 334 pp.
Edited collections
Eder-Ramsauer, Andreas; Kim, Seongcheol; Knott, Andy (Eds.), 2022: Populism, Radicalism, Protest: Ten Years after the Movements of the Squares, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 16 (2), 164 pp.
Eder-Ramsauer, Andreas; Kim, Seongcheol; Knott, Andy; Prentoulis, Marina (Eds.), 2022: Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organisation, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 202 pp.
Kim, Seongcheol; Nonhoff, Martin (Eds.), 2022: Platzproteste zehn Jahre danach. Eine Bestandsaufnahme, Mittelweg 36, 31 (4), 96 pp.
Kim, Seongcheol; Selk, Veith (Eds.), 2021: Wie weiter mit der Populismusforschung?, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 320 pp.
Kim, Seongcheol; Agridopoulos, Aristotelis (Eds.), 2020: Populismus, Diskurs, Staat, Reihe "Staatsverständnisse", Baden-Baden: Nomos, 278 pp.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: The (Anti-)Political Logic of Authoritarian Institutionalism: Party Politics and Authoritarian Consolidation in Russia, in: Journal of Language and Politics [forthcoming].
Kim, Seongcheol; Karavasilis, Lazaros; Nonhoff, Martin, 2024: Performativity and Political Organization after the Squares: Rethinking Horizontality and Verticality, in: Journal of Political Ideologies, DOI: 10.1080/13569317.2024.2413593.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: Anti-Populism Left, Right, and Centre: Varieties of Anti-Populist Party Politics in the European "Populist Moment", in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, DOI: 10.1007/s11615-024-00574-7.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: Far-Right Movement Parties in Europe: Two Perspectives [Research Note], in: Nations and Nationalism, DOI: 10.1111/nana.13047.
Dollbaum, Jan Matti; Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: Going Jingo: A Classification of the Wartime Positions of Russia’s "Systemic Opposition" Parties, in: Post-Soviet Affairs, 40 (3), pp. 222 - 241.
Kim, Seongcheol; Mondon, Aurelien, 2024: From Objectivist Bias to Positivist Bias: A Constructivist Critique of the Attitudes Approach to Populism, in: Political Studies Review, 22 (4), S. 985 - 999.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: Movement Parties of the Left, Right, and Center: A Discursive-Organizational Approach, in: Constellations, 31 (3), S. 399 - 413.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: On Populism and Class Politics: The Polish Union of Labour and the Workers’ Party of Belgium [Research Note], in: Representation, 60 (3), S. 535 - 543.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany, in: Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 32 (4), S. 936 - 947.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2023: Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of 'the Russian People' in Volodymyr Zelensky’s Wartime Speeches, in: Government and Opposition, DOI: 10.1017/gov.2023.40 (Online First).
Kim, Seongcheol, 2023: 'Illiberal Democracy' after Post-Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary, in: The Political Quarterly, 94 (3), pp. 437 - 444.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2023: Between Autonomy and Representation: Toward a Post-Foundational Discourse Analytic Framework for the Study of Horizontality and Verticality, in: Critical Discourse Studies, 20 (4), pp. 345 - 360.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2023: Far-Right Local Governments and Civil Society: Findings from France and Italy [Early Results], in: Political Studies Review, 21 (1), pp. 183 - 189.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2022: Between Radical Democracy and Left Populism on the Margins: Protest Politics and Organization in the Left Front (Russia) and the Left Opposition (Ukraine), in: Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 16 (2), pp. 113 - 130.
Kim, Seongcheol; Borbáth, Endre, 2022: A Typology of Postcommunist Successor Parties in Central and Eastern Europe and an Explanatory Framework for Their (Non-)Success, in: East Central Europe, 49 (2/3), pp. 277 - 311.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2022: Von Lefort zu Mouffe. Populismus als Moment und Grenze radikaler Demokratie, in: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 32 (4), pp. 767 - 786.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2022: Taking Stock of the Field of Populism Research: Are Ideational Approaches 'Moralistic' and Post-Foundational Discursive Approaches 'Normative'?, in: Politics, 42 (4), pp. 492 - 504.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2021: ... Because the Homeland Cannot Be in Opposition: Analysing the Discourses of Fidesz and Law and Justice (PiS) from Opposition to Power, in: East European Politics, 37 (2), pp. 332 - 351.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2020: Between Illiberalism and Hyper-Neoliberalism: Competing Populist Discourses in the Czech Republic, in: European Politics and Society, 21 (5), pp. 618 - 633.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2020: Radical Democracy and Left Populism after the Squares: 'Social Movement' (Ukraine), Podemos (Spain), and the Question of Organization, in: Contemporary Political Theory, 19 (2), pp. 211 - 232.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2017: The Populism of the Alternative for Germany (AfD): An Extended Essex School Perspective, in: Palgrave Communications, 3 (5), pp. 1 - 11.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2017: Between Milieu and Vacuum: Organizational, Programmatic, and Electoral Strategies of the Former Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) Reexamined, in: Politologický časopis/Czech Journal of Political Science, 24 (3), pp. 302 - 329.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2017: "Autonomie" Revisited. The Autonomist Crossroads in the West German Student Movement's Long March, in: Contemporanea - Rivista di storia dell'800 e del'900, 20 (1), pp. 63 - 86.
Chapters in edited volumes
Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: Central and Eastern Europe, in: Katsambekis, Giorgos; Stavrakakis, Yannis (Eds.): Research Handbook on Populism, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar [forthcoming].
Kim, Seongcheol, 2023: From Berlin to Budapest and Back: "Illiberal Democracy" and the Mirror of Neoliberal Post-Democracy, in: Kolozova, Katerina; Milanese, Niccolò (Eds.): "Illiberal Democracies" in Europe: An Authoritarian Response to the Crisis of Liberalism, Washington, DC: Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University, pp. 59 - 68.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2022: Populism, Radical Democracy, and Political Organisation: Movement Parties and People’s Parties of a New Type, in: Eder-Ramsauer, Andreas; Kim, Seongcheol; Knott, Andy; Prentoulis, Marina (Eds.), 2022: Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organisation, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 38 – 54.
Kim, Seongcheol; Nonhoff, Martin, 2022: Bewegungsparteien und Volksparteien neuen Typs. Konturen einer Forschungsagenda, in: Kim, Seongcheol/Nonhoff, Martin (Eds.), Platzproteste zehn Jahre danach. Eine Bestandsaufnahme, Mittelweg 36, 31 (4), pp. 34 – 44.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2021: Zwischen 'Moralismus' und 'Normativität' der Populismusforschung. Ein Vermittlungsversuch, in: Kim, Seongcheol/Selk, Veith (Eds.), Wie weiter mit der Populismusforschung?, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 73 – 92.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2021: Populism and Anti-Populism in the 2017 Dutch, French, and German Elections: A Re-Politicisation of Post-Politics?, in: Wiesner, Claudia (Eds.), Rethinking Politicisation in Politics, Sociology and International Relations, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107 – 128.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2020: Zwischen autoritärem Institutionalismus und Populismus. Die illiberal-nationalistischen Staatsprojekte in Ungarn und Polen, in: Kim, Seongcheol/Agridopoulos, Aristotelis (Eds.), Populismus, Diskurs, Staat, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 211 – 234.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2020: 'Illiberal-demokratische' Legitimität. Eine konzeptuelle Annäherung und empirische Veranschaulichung am Beispiel des Bundestagswahlkampfs 2017, in: Kneip, Sascha/Merkel, Wolfgang/Weßels, Bernhard (Eds.), Legitimitätsprobleme. Zur Lage der Demokratie in Deutschland, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 205 – 222.
Agridopoulos, Aristotelis; Kim, Seongcheol, 2019: Populismus, in: Comtesse, Dagmar/Flügel-Martinsen, Oliver/Martinsen, Franziska/Nonhoff, Martin (Eds.), Radikale Demokratietheorie. Ein Handbuch, Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 593 – 603.
Kulesza, Aleksandra; Kim, Seongcheol 2017: Direkte Demokratie in Polen, in: Merkel, Wolfgang/Ritzi, Claudia (Eds.), Die Legitimität direkter Demokratie. Wie demokratisch sind Volksabstimmungen?, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 101 – 120.
Book reviews, working papers, and other publications
Kim, Seongcheol, 2024: Ten Years of PEGIDA: A Reflection on "deutsche Zustände", in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2024.2429261.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2023: Selenskyjs Appelle an russische Staatsbürger:innen im ersten Jahr des russischen Aggressionskriegs gegen die Ukraine, in: Ukraine-Analysen, 292, pp. 11 – 14.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2023: Review Essay: (Left) Populism and Radical Democracy Today, in: Social Movement Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2023.2267997.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2023: Linke Gruppierungen und unabhängige Gewerkschaften in Belarus im Schatten des Krieges in der Ukraine, in: Belarus-Analysen, 65, pp. 10 – 12.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2022: Die Linke in Russland und der Krieg in der Ukraine, in: Russland-Analysen, 424, pp. 2 – 4.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2022: Das Ende eines Zyklus? Podemos und France Insoumise als Volksparteien neuen Typs, in: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 35 (3), pp. 441 – 451.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2022: The Russian Invasion in the Context of Post-Bolotnaya Authoritarian Consolidation, in: Russian Analytical Digest, 281, pp. 7 – 10.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2021: The Far Right Today by Cas Mudde, in: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 8 (3), pp. 362 – 366.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2020: Hungary, in: Katsambekis, Giorgos/Stavrakakis, Yannis (Hg.), Populism and the Pandemic, POPULISMUS Interventions Nr. 7, pp. 29 – 30.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2018: Marchart, Oliver (Hrsg.) (2017): Ordnungen des Politischen. Einsätze und Wirkungen der Hegemonietheorie Ernesto Laclaus, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 59 (3), pp. 605 – 608.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2018: Populism and Anti-Populism in the 2017 Dutch, French, and German Elections: A Discourse and Hegemony Analytic Approach, POPULISMUS Working Papers Nr. 7.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2017: Der illiberale Faktor. Eine theoretische Annäherung an Populismus in West- und Ostmitteleuropa, in: WZB-Mitteilungen, 156, pp. 32 – 34.
Kim, Seongcheol, 2016: Patrizia Nanz/Claus Leggewie: Die Konsultative. Mehr Demokratie durch Bürgerbeteiligung. Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach 2016, in: Italian Political Science, 11 (2).
Kim, Seongcheol, 2015: Lesen als Revolte? Rezension zu Philipp Felsch: Der lange Sommer der Theorie, in: Ethik und Gesellschaft - Ökumenische Zeitschrift für Sozialethik, 2, pp. 1 - 7.