For more detail on the research interests and publications of faculty at the Department of Political Science, browse individual faculty profiles here, or access the profile of a particular faculty member directly by clicking on the name below.
Faculty |
Research Interests | Courses in Academic Year 2022/2023 |
legislative politics, coalition governments, voter perceptions and behavior, surveys, experiments, EU policy-making and compliance | Introduction to Statistics and Programming with R II, Introduction to Statistics I, Topics in Political Communications, Introduction to Political Institutions, Voting Behavior | |
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ethnic politics, Central and Eastern Europe, political transition/democratisation, elections, political institutions | |
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Ethnic conflict, civil war, democratization, deliberative democracy, African politics, gender, terrorism, hybrid regimes. | Scope and Methods: Research Design and Techniques - MA1, Terrorism: A Comparative Politics Perspective, Political Institutions |
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political and social change, democratization, Central European politics, hybrid regimes, political ideologies, democratic theory, elite theory, anarchism, the role of intellectuals |
Comparative Politics - Group 2, Political Change: Evolution and Revolution, Political Ideologies, Critique of Democracy: Anarchism, Elitism, Populism |
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Politics and political economy of transnational markets; EU integration and development in the Eastern and Southern peripheries of Europe; Regulatory integration and development | Introduction to Political Economy: Interests, Institutions and Ideas, The Political Economy of Regime Change |
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political economy, welfare states, social policy, inequality and labor markets | Welfare States in the Current Era: Origins, Issues and Challenges, Varieties of Capitalism, Welfare States in the Current Era: Origins, Issues and Challenges |
Zsolt Enyedi (MA Program Director) |
political institutions, representativeness of political parties,; party organization and party competition, authoritarianism, prejudices and political tolerance, religion in electoral behavior, church and state relations, party finance | The Analyses of Regime Change, Introduction to Comparative Politics: History, Topics, and Methods, Research Design |
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the political economy of post-communist transitions, monetary and exchange rate politics, European integration | Introduction to Political Economy, Neoliberalism and its alternatives: orthodoxies and heterodoxies, Research Design, Democracy, Autocracy and Economic Development |
moral and political philosophy, distributive justice, gender justice, childhood and childrearing, children and politics, the ethics of personal relationships, partiality | Methods in Political Philosophy, Theories of Justice | |
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varieties of capitalism, social movements | Social Movements, Worldly Philosophers of Capitalism, Development, and Democracy: Classic Debates |
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US Politics; Political Psychology; Socialization, Physiology, Genetics and Neuroscience of Political Attitudes and Behaviors; Populist, Democracy and Secessionist Attitudes; Research Design; Survey Methodology; Quantitative Methods
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Basics in Quantitative Research, Introduction to Statistical Modelling, Topics in Statistical Modelling |
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business elites, business-government relations, patronal politics; hybrid regimes, competitive authoritarianism, defective democracy; rent-seeking, bad governance, authoritarian modernization; global capital mobility, financial regulations and off/onshore havens; EU Neighborhood Policy; NATO’s Partnership for Peace; Russia’s and China’s foreign policies and regional integration in Eurasia; research design, qualitative data, qualitative methods of data collection and analysis | |
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decision theory, organization theories, bureaucratic politics, foreign policy, history of the cold war | Central and Eastern Europe and the EU, Constitutionalism and Democracy, Democracy Promotion |
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moral and political philosophy, distributive justice, political obligation, democratic theory | Introduction to Political Theory, The Morality of Immigration |
Andres Moles (Head of Department) |
contemporary political and moral philosophy, liberalism, democratic theory, social and distributive justice | The Ethics of Discrimination, Political Concepts and Ideologies, Political Theory: Justice and Equality - Group 1, Political Theory: Justice and Equality - Group 2 |
Biopolitics, ethical, legal, social implications of health care and biotechnologies, privacy, reproductive rights, gender policies, biotechnological patents, enhancement, human rights | Human Rights and Biopolitics | |
Ethnic relations, minority rights, migration and citizenship issues, Roma rights, political discourse, populism and democratic decline, Europeanization, gender politics, media analysis | Scope and Methods: Research Design and Techniques - MA2, Nations and Society | |
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political regime change, political inequalities, set-theoretic methods in the social sciences, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), comparative methodology and research design, autocratic regimes |
The Analyses of Regime Change, Comparative Case Study Research, Comparative Politics - Group 1 |
experiments, public opinion, surveys, prejudice, usa politics | Experimental Political Science, Introduction to Public Opinion, Political Communications, Political Behavior, Prospectus Seminar, Topics in Political Behavior | |
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comparative political economy, employment relations, labor movements, welfare states and public services | The Future of Work - Challenges for Politics and Policy, Introduction to Political Economy: Interests, Institutions and Ideas, Political Economy: Rational Choice and Collective Action |
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contemporary political philosophy, social and distributive justice, liberalism and religion, philosophy and disability, disability and bioethics | Disability and Justice, Political Philosophy from the 17th to 19th century |
More information on courses: https://courses.ceu.edu/unit/43/courses