Faculty Spotlight

New Publication by Professor Carsten Q. Schneider

June 6, 2025
Carsten Schneider

Prof. Carsten Q. Schneider has co-authored a new article:
“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality
(Illiberal Politics in Europe, Vol. 13, 2025)

Using data from 38,000+ speeches across 120 countries and advanced machine learning models, the study shows that illiberal leaders on the right increase economic inequality, despite promises of redistribution.

Seminar Announcement: Informal Workers as Outsiders – Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries

May 22, 2025
Anil Dman

Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: QS A415 and via Zoom
Zoom ID: 989 1394 5271 | Passcode: 048427

Democracy Talk #5: Serbian students’ fight against autocratization - Key lessons for democracy defenders in the Balkans and beyond

May 8, 2025
Serbia

Professor Daniel Bochsler will join Tanja Malle and Nino Gozalishvili in the fifth edition of the Democracy Talks, organized by the FES Regional Office for International Cooperation, to discuss the Serbian students’ fight against autocratization.

New Publication by Andres Moles

April 7, 2025
Andres Moles

We are proud to announce a new publication by our faculty member, Andrés Moles, in Behavioural Public Policy. His article, co-authored with Viktor Ivanković, is titled "The Inevitability Argument for Choice Architecture and the Evidence-Based View."

New Publication: "The Dual State of Judiciary in Hungary and Poland"

March 24, 2025
Robert Sata

Congratulations to our faculty member Robert Sata who has co-authored a new article in the journal Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, analyzing the erosion of judicial independence in Hungary and Poland.