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Duman analyses the recent political repression of academia in Hungary and Turkey

January 8, 2021
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Anil Duman's co-authored paper "Marketisation of Academia and Authoritarian Governments: The Cases of Hungary and Turkey in Critical Perspective" has just been published in Critical Sociology and it analyses the recent political repression of academia in Hungary and Turkey within the critical scholarship on globalisation and neoliberalisation of higher education. Give it a read!

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Anil Duman's Chapter in Female Voices from the Worksite

December 28, 2020
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Associate Professor Anil Duman's chapter “Precarious Employment Intersecting with Gender: are women punished more?” has been published in the volume M. Walker (ed.) Female Voices from the Worksite: The Impact of Hidden Bias against Working Women Across the Globe. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

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New Visiting Faculty - Monika Mühlböck

December 23, 2020
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The Department is happy to welcome dr. Monika Mühlböck as visiting professor on board.

Dr. Monika Mühlböck, in the winter semester, will cover topics of great contemporary political relevance. Her course, Democratic representation in the Risk Society, deals with problems of democratic politics in the context of decisions involving high levels of risk, such as COVID-19 or climate change. The course will count towards the Political Economy, Electoral Politics and Comparative Politics specializations.

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How do statistics reveal election fraud? by Daniel Bochsler

December 15, 2020
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Associate Professor Daniel Bochsler's article has just appeared in Republic online magazine:

How do statistics reveal election fraud? - "It is becoming increasingly difficult to manipulate elections undetected because research is increasingly using elaborate mathematical methods to find out about electoral fraud."

The article is in German.

https://www.republik.ch/2020/12/14/wie-deckt-die-statistik-wahlfaelschun...

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Gheaus Co-Edited Special Issue of Moral Philosophy and Politics, on Children's and Adolescent's Rights

November 10, 2020
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Assistant Professor Anca Gheaus has co-edited, together with Sabine Hohl (Bern) a Special Issue of the journal Moral Philosophy and Politics, on Children's and Adolescent's Rights. The issue offers new contributions to the topics of paternalism, the nature of the right to parent and children’s voting. It also contains articles about the so far less explored questions of adolescents’ parental rights, minors’ rights against the harms of parental imprisonment, and their right to veto their own parents’ decision to relocate.

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