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In his current research, Krystof focuses on publishing his dissertation manuscript, Christian Democratic Option, which explores the institutional and ideological survival of Christian democracy in Eastern Europe, grounded in the case study of Czechoslovakia. Simultaneously, he works on his 'second project,' entitled Who Holds the Line? Scaling Liberalism in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe, which provides a much-needed transnational and synoptic history of vernacular liberalism in Eastern Europe. The project promises to deepen our understanding of the liberal democratic resilience in a region considered a hotbed of illiberal diffusion and autocratic hardening.  

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Journal Publications

 

• How the Left Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Alt-Right: Czechia and the All-Out Illiberalism of Stačilo! (under review)

• Who Holds the Line? Liberalism Beyond Its Adversaries (after second R&R)

• Christian Democracy under Autocracy: How Catholics Reinvented Anti-Totalitarianism and Human Rights in Late Cold War Czechoslovakia (after second R&R)

• Catholicism Meets Liberalism in Eastern Europe: Christian Democratic Ideological Formation in Pre-Communist Czechoslovakia. Europe-Asia Studies

• Why Trouble Is Brewing in the Czech Republic. Journal of Democracy (Exclusive Online)

• Irritating the Secular: On Peter Berger and Charles Taylor's Theological Projects, Politics, Religion & Ideology 25, n. 3 (2024): 443–458.

• Sustaining Significance of Confessional Form: Taking Foucault to Attitudinal Research. Foucault Studies, n. 34 (2023): 1-24.

• Czechoslovak Postwar Nationalism in Media Reception of the Film Warriors of Faith. Slovak Historical Journal 70, n. 1 (2022): 87-115.

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Monographs

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• Christian Democratic Option: Czechoslovakia and the Grammar of Democracy. Work in progress (see my dissertation manuscript).

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Edited Volumes

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• Christian Democracy and Left. In Handbook on Christian Democracy. Edited by Forlenza, R, Zolleis, U. London: Routledge (forthcoming 2026)

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Reviewer for Journals

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• Politics, Religion, and Ideology

• European Journal of Political Theory

• East Central Europe Journal

• Iluminace