News

Carsten Schneider promoted to Professor

August 4, 2015

Carsten Q. Schneider, Head of the Department of Political Science has been promoted to a rank of Professor, effective August 1, 2015.

PolSci alumn Jeff Le appointed Assistant Cabinet Secretary in California Governor’s Office

June 17, 2015

Congratulations to Jeff Le (POLS ’07), who will help with the daily running of California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s Cabinet as Assistant Cabinet Secretary.

The Political Science Department will host the 2016-18 Summer School of Methods And Techniques (SSMT)

May 27, 2015

The Executive Committee (EC) of the ECPR decided that the Political Science Department of the Central European University will host the 2016-18 Summer School of Methods And Techniques (SSMT).
 

POLSCI and IRES faculty win Best SER Paper award

May 22, 2015

Carsten Q. Schneider, associate professor and head of the Department of Political Science at CEU, and CEU alumna and visiting professor at IRES, Kristin Makszin won the Socio-Economic Review Annual Prize for the best article published in the journal in 2014 for their article Forms of Welfare Capitalism and Education-Based Participatory Inequality. Schneider and Makszin’s paper analyzes how institutional conditions shape the impact of differences in education on political participation in capitalist democracies.