Bio

My research expertise and interest are in two different disciplines: cross-cultural differences and democratization. I am interested to examine the relation and interaction between societal culture and institutional settings of democracy. The Cultural Compatibility Thesis of Democracy developed in my PhD dissertation posits that societal culture matters in the process of opting, adopting and adapting political institutions of democracy. The thesis suggests that the mentality of adopting the best model of democracy should be replaced with the attitude of finding the most compatible model.

I am also a pro-democracy activist and political analyst of Iranian politics (see my interview with the Tilburg University Magazine, UNIVERS). I am the director of GAMAAN (the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran) research foundation. Appearing in media and using Twitter, I try to have an impact on political debates around democratization of Iran.

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Recent publications

  1. Anonymity sampling - How GAMAAN measured “non-public” opinions in Iran

    Maleki, A. (2023). Anonymity sampling: How GAMAAN measured “non-public” opinions in Iran. Abstract from WAPOR 76th Annual Conference, Salzburg, Austria.
  2. Iranians’ attitudes toward media 2023

    Maleki, A. (2023). Iranians’ attitudes toward media 2023. https://gamaan.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/GAMAAN-Media-Survey-2023-English.pdf
  3. Iranians’ attitudes toward the 2022 nationwide protests

    Maleki, A., & Tamimi Arab, P. (2023). Iranians’ attitudes toward the 2022 nationwide protests. https://gamaan.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/GAMAAN-Protests-Survey-English-Report-Final.pdf
  4. Survey Zoroastrians - Religious self-identifications in online survey…

    Maleki, A., & Tamimi Arab, P. (2023). Survey Zoroastrians: Religious self-identifications in online surveys in Iran (2020-2022). Abstract from 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands.
  5. Survey Zoroastrians - Online religious identification in the Islamic …

    Stausberg, M., Tamimi Arab, P., & Maleki, A. (2023). Survey Zoroastrians: Online religious identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 62(4), 823-844.

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