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1 Dec 2025

The Politics of Environmental Networks: New special issue in Politics and Governance

A new special issue co-edited by Petr Ocelík brings together 11 studies using network perspectives to examine the relational processes shaping environmental politics and governance.

14 Nov 2025

Petr Ocelík elected to the ECPR Political Networks Steering Committee

Petr Ocelík was re-elected to the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Networks, continuing his involvement in the international network research community.

30 Oct 2025

New study examines how governance narratives sustain coal in India

A new study by Vladimíra Ličková, Petr Ocelík, and Hedvika Koďousková examines how official discourse reconciles India's continued reliance on coal with modernization and climate-policy ambitions

20 Oct 2025

REL-POL presents at the FSS Experience Sharing Seminar

Petr Ocelík and Petr Vadovič presented the Czech Science Foundation project on climate policy networks and shared experiences with project management and policy instrument analysis at the FSS Experience Sharing Seminar.

6 Oct 2025

Petr Ocelík presents research on policy change at MODUL University Vienna

Petr Ocelík presented a relational framework for studying policy change, connecting policy process theories with analytical sociology at a research seminar at MODUL University Vienna.

30 Aug 2025

REL-POL at the ECPR General Conference in Thessaloniki

Martin Svozil and Petr Vadovič presented research on transnational climate communication and the relationship between advocacy coalitions and parliamentary decision-making at the ECPR General Conference in Thessaloniki.

1 Aug 2025

New chapter synthesizes research from the COMPON project

A new chapter co-authored by Petr Ocelík reviews nearly two decades of research from the international COMPON project and outlines new directions for studying climate politics through relational approaches.

2 Jul 2025

Petr Vadovič on a research stay University of Helsinki

From April to June 2025 Petr Vadovič spent two months at a research stay at the University of Helsinki under the supervision of professor Tuomas Ylä-Antilla.