Felix BUTZLAFF is a political scientist and post-doc researcher at the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability(IGN) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. After studying political science, economics, and international law in Göttingen/Germany and Santiago de Chile, he received his doctoral degree from the Georg-August-University in Göttingen/Germany. His research and publications focus on the development of social movements and political parties, democratic participation, and changing patterns of mobilisation, participation and representation.