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MA Theses 2022/23
One-year MA in Political Science
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
| Abbas Shahrabi Farahani | Abolitionist Limits to State Authority: For a Democratic Political Theory of Criminal Justice |
| Aigerim Zholdas | Who Decides Counterterrorism Measures In Central Asia? Case of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan |
| Aktin Akishev | 'They Started It': Legitimation Of War In Russian Televised News |
| Aleksandar Ivkovic | International Constraints on Democratic Backsliding |
| GEORGE CONSTANTINESCU | Coaching and Lobbying Europeanization. Romanian diplomacy as a norm entrepreneur in Moldova s EU accession process |
| Greta Bordin | Legitimation Pattern: A Comparative Foreign Political Discourse Analysis of the Russian Interventions in Syria (2015) and Ukraine (2022) |
| Hanna Savaryn | Warfare & Social Media: Disinformation and Propaganda in the Digital Age |
| KARLO MIKIC | The Minimal Account of Path Dependence: Redeveloping the Concept of Path Dependence Based on its Use in Political Science |
| Lia Chkhetiani | Us versus Them: Pernicious Political Polarization and Withering Hope for Democracy in Georgia |
| Mehmet Han Fatih Uyar | Connecting Democratic Stock to Democratic Resilience: Autocratization in Turkey and Venezuela |
| Milan Stankovic | Memory Politics as a Defining Instrument for Political Action? A Rhetorical Analysis of the Right-Wing Ideology in Slovenia and in Serbia |
| Nadezhda Boitsova | Voting for a Better Future: The Promise and Reality of Digital Ballot Processing Systems in Russian Elections |
| Natalia Martins Fritzen | AI-Nudging and Individual Autonomy: Moral Permissibility and Policy Recommendations |
| Nikita Sidorov | Technology and the Future of Work: Comparing the Potential Impact of AI Industrialisation on Labour Markets in Liberal and Coordinated Market Economies |
| Nikolaos Tzimas | From Policy Battles to Political Defeat: The "Defund the Police" Movement's Struggle to Challenge the Dominant Discourse on Public Safety 2020-2023 |
| Orhun Kirlac | Populism as an Entity, Its Manifestations and the Study of Populism at the Regime Level: Rescuing Democratic Popular Parties from Populists |
| OSCAR AVILA VELASCO | Narco-terrorism in Mexico |
| Qi Sun | The Power Change of Authoritarian and Democratic Regimes during the Times of Crisis - A Comparison between Mainland China and Taiwan |
| Sohaib Alzoubi | States Responses to Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies |
| Vladislav Siiutkin | How Do Ordinary Citizens Experience Polarization Under an Authoritarian Regime? A Qualitative Study of Affects and Preferences in the Post-Invasion Russian Society |
Two-Year MA in Political Science
| Student Name | Thesis Title |
| Asmaa Yousuf | Identity Salience and the Copts in the Salafist Discourse in post-2011 Egypt: Discourse-Historical Approach |
| BURCU KISAC | Rethinking Labor Market Participation through the Experiences of Turkish Immigrant Women in the Austrian Labor Market |
| Furkan Berkant Yavuz | Dreams of Perfection: Eugenics, Ethics and Politics from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century |
| Gilloch Boyle, Thomas Daniel | (Re)Visiting Utopia: Critical Reflections |
| Inaltekin Süleyman (Esai) | Walking in Another's Shoes: An Experimental Study on the Effects of Perspective-Taking in Decreasing Affective Polarization |
| Josipa Cvitic | Socio-cultural Capital and Immigrants's Political Participation in Austria |
| Maria Yordanova Atanasova | Bulgarian Political Parties: An Exploration Of Roma Representation In Online Electoral Campaigns |
| MURAD HASANOV | Comparative Outlook of State-Mosque Relations: Modern Turkey and Iran |
| NASTIA KOVALSKA | Why Should They Be Friends? The impact of ideological proximity on international cooperation: the case of the Visegrad Group |
| SIMON OSLER | To What Extent Does Britain Retain Class Politics In National Elections And Ireland Not? |
| Szabo Julia Lilian | The Principle of Legitimacy and the Gendered Division of Labour: What to Make of the Tension Between Political Liberalism and Feminism |
| Victoria Palchikova | War and development of gender norms: Case of Ukraine |
| Yuji Natsuma | The Influence of Political Memes on Belief on Fake News: A Dual Process Theory Perspective |
| ZHANG, Chenzhi | State-Business Relations in China's Digital Silk Road: The Case of Alibaba Group's E-WTP |