Arusyak Aleksanyan is a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, a lecturer and expert at the Centre for European Studies of Yerevan State University. The topics of her interest are comparative political analysis, indices of democracy and political stability, political technologies. Arusyak developed the methodology of the Index of Democracy Level within the research program of the CRRC in Armenia and Carnegie Corporation in New York. She is also the author of the Index of Political Stability.