Bogdan Mihai Radu is senior lecturer in Political Science at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine and his MA from the University of Manchester. He held a postdoctoral position at Collegium Budapest and was a visiting researcher at the Central European University. He won, as principal investigator, several government-funded research projects focusing on democratization and democratic political culture in postcommunist countries. Currently, he is exploring determinants of support for political institutions and policies, at both national and supranational levels.