Miro Hacek is a professor at the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences. A former head of the political science department and of the policy analysis and public administration department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. He is currently vice-president of the Central European Political Science Association. Visiting professor to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Johannesburg (both 2018). Editor-in-chief of The International Journal of Comparative Politics.