Blendi Çeka is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tirana, where he has taught since 2005. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Tirana with a dissertation on the relationship between electoral systems, the party system, and electoral behavior in Albania, and an MSc in European Politics and Government from the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests include electoral systems, party systems, political behavior, and minority representation in Albania and the wider region. He serves as co-principal investigator for the Albanian National Election Study, in collaboration with the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES).