Adj. Prof. Dr. Steffen Kailitz

Steffen Kailitz is a Visiting Professor for Comparative Politics at the University of Erfurt. He is a senior research fellow at the Hannah-Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism. In recent years he has lectured as adjunct professor at the Technical University of Dresden and as visiting professor at the University of Greifswald. He is co-founder and speaker of the group “Comparative Research on Autocracies and Extremism” of the German Political Science Association.  

Kailitz´ broad field of research is analysis of democratic regime types, parliamentarism, and political extremism. His main current research interests are the causes for (in)stability of democracies and autocracies.