At 13.-14. February 2018, Esther Somfalvy participated at a joint workshop of the Institutes of Sociology and the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. At the workshop attended by 20 researchers from EU countries and the US, she gave a presentation titled “Cutting the ties to your native son. The impact of party system structure on electoral reform in Central Asia”.