Research
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, synoptic history of vernacular liberalism in the region. The project promises to deepen our understanding of the liberal democratic resilience in a region considered a hotbed of illiberal diffusion and autocratic hardening.
Journal Publications
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Klaus' Bastards: The Making of Czechia’s Post-Presidential Right (2009–2025) (work-in-progress)
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How the Left Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Radical Right: Czechia and the All-Out Illiberalism of Stačilo! (under review)
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Who Holds the Line? Liberalism Beyond Its Adversaries (forthcoming Political Studies Review)
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Christian Democracy under Autocracy: How Catholics Reinvented Anti-Totalitarianism and Human Rights in Late Cold War Czechoslovakia (forthcoming Modern Intellectual History)
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Why Trouble Is Brewing in the Czech Republic. Journal of Democracy (Exclusive Online)
Monographs
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Christian Democratic Option: Czechoslovakia and the History of an Unreliable Tradition. Work in progress (see my dissertation manuscript).
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)
Reviewer for Journals
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Politics, Religion, and Ideology
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European Journal of Political Theory
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East Central Europe Journal
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Iluminace