Dr. Eliška Drápalová

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Research Fellow of the Research Group
Politics of Digitalization

Short bio

Dr. Eliška Drápalová has been a research fellow at the WZB since January 2022. Prior to that, she was involved as a guest researcher. She obtained her PhD in Political Economy from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Organizations, Management and Leadership Cluster of the Hertie School in Berlin as well as the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Eliška is a comparative political scientist and administration scholar interested in the quality of government and regulation in cities, smart cities and the effect of technology on public administration. She co-directs a DFG-funded project on regulating platform companies in EU cities and regions together with Prof. Kai Wegrich from the Hertie School (Berlin).

Link to the project website: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/research/research-directory/regulate

Research fields

Comparative Public Administration, Local Government, Digitalisation, Platform Regulation, Quality of Government

CV

Selected Publications

Drápalová Eliška and Kai Wegrich (2024) Platforms´ regulatory disruptiveness and local regulatory outcomes in Europe. Internet Policy Review (12)2:1-27

Drápalová Eliška (2024) ‘Perso Nella Confusione: La Politica Locale Negli Studi Sul Populismo’. In  Mattia Zulianello and Petra Guasti (eds) Capire Il Populismo, Torino: UTET Università, pp 232–34.

Drápalová Eliška (2024) "Thorns in the Side: Strategies of populist parties against local public administrations." Governance (37)1: 83-99. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12843

Drápalová Eliška (2023) „Die Flitterwochen sind zu Ende. Die neue Härte europäischer Städte im Umgang mit Online-Plattformen“ (The honeymoon is over.Regulatory backlash against platform companies in European cities), WZB Mitteilungen Quartalsheft für Sozialforschung, Nr. 181.Pp: 52-55

Drápalová Eliška and Kai Wegrich (2021) Technocratic Populism and Subnational Governance, Government and Opposition 56(4) 640-660 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2020.16

Drápalová Eliška (2021) ‘Technocratic-Populist Mayors and Public Administration in Three European Cities’ in Michael W. Bauer, Guy B. Peters, Jon Pierre, Kutsal Yesilkagitand Stefan Becker (eds.) Populists, Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 127- 151

Drápalová Eliška (2021) ‘Down-to-earth. What we can learn from studying corruption at the local level,’ in Marcia Grimes, Bo Rothstein, Monika Bauhr (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Quality of Government, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Drápalová Eliška and Fabrizio Di Mascio (2020) ‘Islands of Good Government: Explaining Successful Corruption Control in Two Spanish Cities’, Politics and Governance 8(2): 128-139. DOI: 10.17645/pag.v8i2.2730

Drápalová Eliška, and Kai Wegrich (2020) ‘Who Governs 4.0? Varieties of Smart Cities’, Public Management Review 22(5) 668-686. DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1718191.

Dacian C. Dragos, Drápalová Eliška, A. T. Marseille (2018), ‘A Brief Comparative Outlook on the Regulation of Parties, Procedure, and Exceptions in Different FOIAs’ in Dacian C. Dragos, Polonca Kovač, A. T. Marseille (eds.) The Laws of Transparency in Action: A European Perspective, Palgrave, pp 599-639

Drápalová Eliška and Davide Vampa (2018) ‘The Decline of Traditional Partisanship in Spanish Municipalities: Corruption, Inequality and Territorial Mobilisation’, Representation, 54(4): 349-365, DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2018.1539029