REL-POL Lab explores how interactions among political actors, institutions, policy outputs, public discourses, and economic flows shape policy processes. The lab is part of the Deparment of International Relations and European Studies. Read more about us.
Our current research examines how advocacy structures shape climate policymaking, how climate obstruction operates across policy and media arenas, and how climate policy networks evolve across different political systems. This work is developed through a Czech Science Foundation project on the Czech climate policy subsystem, the Journalism Science Alliance examining hidden forms of climate policy obstruction, and our long-term collaboration with the international COMPON – Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks research network.
These projects allow us to connect political actors, beliefs, policy outputs, public discourses, and economic relations across multiple layers of climate and energy governance.
