Martin Dolezal
Martin Dolezal is a political scientist and has been at the Department of Public Law and Political Science since February 2022. After completing his doctorate at the University of Vienna, he worked at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he habilitated in 2011.
Dolezal's research focusses on questions of political participation and various aspects of party competition.
In Graz, he is leading an FWF-funded project on polarisation and political participation. He is also involved in an FWF-funded project at the University of Salzburg (Department of Political Science) on the relationship between populism and conspiracy narratives. Dolezal is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.

Selected publications
- Dolezal, Martin (2023) Die Schweizer Grünen im europäischen Vergleich, in: Sarah Bütikofer and Werner Seitz (eds.) Die Grünen in der Schweiz. Development - Impact - Perspectives, Zurich: Seismo Verlag, 191-200.
- Dolezal, Martin (2023) Who protests in Austria? Socio-demographic, ideological and psychological aspects of the normalisation thesis, in: Peter Grand, Marcel Fink and Guido Tiemann (eds.) 20 Years of Austria in the European Social Survey. Social attitudes, preferences and judgements, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 69-94.
- Dolezal, Martin and Franz Fallend (2023) Die Länder: Landtage und Landesregierungen, in: Katrin Praprotnik and Flooh Perlot (eds.) Das Politische System Österreichs. Basic knowledge and research insights, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 213-242.
- Dolezal, Martin, Klaus Poier and Hedwig Unger (2023) Gerichtsbarkeit, in: Katrin Praprotnik and Flooh Perlot (eds.) Das Politische System Österreichs. Basic Knowledge and Research Insights, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 325-354.
- Dolezal, Martin (2022) Social and Political Cleavages and Political Participation, in: Marco Giugni and Maria Grasso (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 471-488.
To the complete publication list (as of 2022) in the research portal of the University of Graz.
A list of all publications can be found on Google Scholar.