Dr. Nemanja Stankov

Dr. Nemanja Stankov is a teaching associate at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro. He earned his PhD in Comparative Politics at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. His narrower academic interests include voter behavior, political psychology, clientelism, and quantitative research in political science. He has published in several international journals in the field of political behavior analysis, including Democratization, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, and Politics in Central Europe.

He is a member of the Montenegrin National Election Study (MNES) research team, a methodologist on the Montenegrin national team for the European Social Survey (ESS Waves 9 and 10), and has served on multiple occasions as a project evaluator for the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and IPA II programs.

In addition to his academic work, since 2024 he has also been engaged at the Center for Monitoring and Research (CeMI) as the Head of the Public Policy Research Department.

Selected Publications:

  • Nemanja Stankov (2024) Offer money they will accept: Linkages between authoritarian attitudes and clientelistic targeting in Africa, Democratization 31(2), 315-340.
  • Nemanja Stankov and Slaven Živković (2021) May the lord protect our country: ethnic relations as a moderator between religiosity and radical right vote, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2021.1952167
  • Nacevska, Elena, and Nemanja Stankov. “Development Processes for Changing the Party System in Slovenia and Montenegro.” Politics in Central Europe 16.3 (2020): 623-645. DOI: 10.2478/pce-2020-0028
  • Nemanja Stankov (2020) Voting, clientelism, and identity: experimental evidence from Montenegro, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2020.1766862
  • Stankov, Nemanja. (2019) “Springing up like mushrooms after the rain: New parties in Montenegro’s institutionalised party system.” Politics in Central Europe 15.1, 163-185.