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Carl Nordlund Wins World Society Foundation Award of Excellence

April 24, 2013

Carl Nordlund, a member of the Political Economy Research Group and a post-doctoral research fellow hosted by the Center for Network Science and the Department of Political Science, won the World Society Foundation Award of Excellence 2013, a biannual award given to papers on world society research. The award was presented at the "Structure of the World Political Economy" conference held in April at the University of California-Riverside, co-hosted by the World Society Foundation and the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association.

Visiting Professor Position (junior) in Political Economy

April 19, 2013

Starting date: September 2013

Application deadline: Open until filled

The Political Science Department at Central European University, Budapest, is looking for a political economist interested in a junior visiting faculty position for one academic year (September 2013-June 2014). We are looking for someone who can teach core courses in the field on the MA level. The normal teaching load at CEU is three classes (each class meets twice a week for 100 minutes, during 12 weeks) per academic year, plus MA thesis supervision.

Darren Schreiber of CEU in Time magazine

February 19, 2013

Darren Schreiber, postdoctoral research fellow hosted by our department, made it to the front page of Time magazine for his latest research. His neuropolitical research he suggests that people’s party affiliation can be predicted by an 82.9% precision based on the activity of their brain. His research provides empirical evidence that conservatives and liberals use a different part of their brain when making risky decisions. The research team utilized data from a previous experiment in which participants had to take part in a gambling game.