Dr. Gergana Dimova is a Lecturer in Politics at the London Study Centre of Florida State University. She obtained her MA and PhD from Harvard University, and was subsequently a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, a Research Associate at the University of Oxford and an associated Lecturer at the University of Winchester. Dimova serves as a commissioning co-editor of Cambridge University Press s book series Politics and Society from Central Europe to Central Asia, associate editor of the journal Democratic Theory, and convenor of the Politics and Anti-Politics Specialist Group of the UK s Political Science Association. Dimova is the author of Democracy beyond Elections (Palgrave Macmillan 2019). Her articles have been published in, among other journals, Demokratizatsiya, Democratic Theory, Comparative Political Theory, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, CEU Political Science Journal, Global Media Journal, and Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.