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Lucie Bohdalová

DAAD SCHOLARSHIP HOLDER

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Office: Feldkirchenstr. 21, Room:FG1/00.04, 96052 Bamberg, Germany
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E-Mail: lucie.bohdalova(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49(0)951/863-2920
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Pillar 4: Governance, Institutional Change and Political Behaviour

Field: Political Science

Research Interests: Gender and Politics, Political Representation of Minorities, Women, Peace and Security Policies, Migration Politics, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods
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// DISSERTATION PROJECT

 

The personal is political': How Gender, Generations and Stratified Access to Resources Shape Political Attitudes and Engagement in Czech Society

How do social stratifications and resources shape issue salience, political attitudes, and concreate political activisation in post-socialist Czechia?” My dissertation answers this question by examining how social stratifications and access to resources shape political priorities, attitudes, and mobilisation in post-socialist Czechia. Drawing on large-scale survey analyses and qualitative research, it shows that political behaviour is not merely a matter of personal choice or institutional influence. It is deeply structured by gendered life experiences, generational socialisation under different regimes, and unequal access to both material and emotional resources. The thesis identifies three key modes through which these dynamics operate: gendered resource access and political priorities, generational legacies of socialism and democratisation, and embodied, affective drivers of youth activism. By revealing how caregiving responsibilities shape women's political concerns, how cohorts raised under socialism retain lower political trust, and how emotions and nature-relatedness fuel environmental engagement among young people, the research focuses on political engagement as a lived and stratified experience. Positioned within broader European debates, it challenges the idea that Eastern Europe is simply ‘catching up’, instead offering Czechia as a critical lens for understanding how inequality, history, and emotion converge to shape political voice in transforming societies.


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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND


2020 - Date
Research Fellow, Political Science, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences - University of Bamberg

2019 - 2020
Visiting Research Fellow, Political Science, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences - University of Bamberg

2016 - 2019
Masters Degree in Public Policy and Human Resources, Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Brno, CZ

2015 - 2018
Masters Degree in Political Science, Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Brno, CZ

2012 - 2015
Bachelor