Alexandra Iancu (Ionașcu) is a Professor of Comparative Politics and the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science. She teaches courses on Comparative Politics, Political Parties and Ideologies, Democratization & Democratic backsliding.

Selected publications include: “Meanings and uses of anticorruption in political narratives. Common vocabularies from past to present” in Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez and Roxana Bratu (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Anticorruption Research and Practice, Londra: Routledge, June 2025; “Le semi-présidentialisme dans l’aire post-soviétique: triomphe et régression démocratique” (with Angela Tacea), Pouvoirs, 184, 2023;“Filling the ideological void: „Restorative” nostalgia and the radical right parties in Romania” Sociologia, 55, no.2, 2023; “(De)politicising the rule of law and fundamental rights in Europe: Transnational illiberalism or a regional perspective?” in Democratic Crisis Revisited. The Dialectics between Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation, Nomos, 2022; “Die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz in Rumänien – Narrative und politische Polarisierung in: Das politische System Rumäniens, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2022; “Increasing women’s political representation in post-communism: party nudges and financial corrections in Romania,” East European Politics, 37(4), 2021; “The demise of the Spitzenkandidaten system: Decline of EU democratization or (Euro)party process of adaptation?” In : 2019 European elections. The EU party democracy and the challenge of national populism, Leiden: Brill, 2020; Party Members and Their Importance in Non-EU Countries (co-ed. with S. Gherghina, S. Soare), London: Routledge, 2018.

She was a visiting researcher/professor at Charles University (Prague), EHESS Partis, University of Leipzig, New Bulgarian University. She holds a joint PhD in political science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Bucharest.