Latvia
Jānis Ikstens (PhD from University of Latvia in 1997) is a Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of Advanced Political and Social Research Institute at the University of Latvia. He has recently co-edited a volume on party finance in post-Communist countries (2008) and contributed a chapter on the development of Political Science in Latvia to „Political Science in Central and Eastern Europe” edited by Rainer Eisfeld and Leslie Pal (2010). He is working on a monograph about parties and party system in Latvia.