Svitlana Chernykh joined the School of Politics and International Relations in 2014. Prior to coming to ANU, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is the recipient of the 2009 Paul Lazarsfeld Award for the Best Paper in Political Communication from the American Political Science Association and the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council (2016-2018). Her research focuses on democratisation, comparative political institutions (election, parties, constitutions), and executive-legislative relations. Her work has been published in many of the discipline’s leading journals, including the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Communication, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Political Research Quarterly.

PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Democratisation, Elections, Post-election disputes, Executive-legislative relations, Comparative constitutional design