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.
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Research Interests | Courses in Academic Year 2021/2022 |
| legislative politics, coalition governments, voter perceptions and behavior, surveys, experiments, EU policy-making and compliance | Media Systems and Democracy: Social Media; Introduction to Theoretical and Applied Statistics | |
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ethnic politics, Central and Eastern Europe, political transition/democratisation, elections, political institutions |
Comparative European Politics; Elections and Democracy I.; Nationalism and Democracy On sabbatical in winter + spring term |
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Ethnic conflict, civil war, democratization, deliberative democracy, African politics, gender, terrorism, hybrid regimes. | Scopes and Methods: Research Design and Techniques; Terrorism: A Comparative Politics Perspective |
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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, Frontiers of Democracy On sabbatical in Winter, Spring 2021/22 |
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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 | Democracy, Autocracy and Economic Development; Introduction to Political Economy: Interests, Institutions and Ideas; The Political Economy of Regime Change; Varieties of Capitalism |
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political economy, welfare states, social policy, inequality and labor markets | On sabbatical in 2021/22 |
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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 | Religion and Politics in the West: Foundations II; Introduction to Comparative Politics: History, Topics, and Methods; Political Sociology and Political Economy;Research Design |
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the political economy of post-communist transitions, monetary and exchange rate politics, European integration | Decentralization, Devolution, Federalism; Interest groups, State Capture and Rent-Seeking; Concepts in Political Economy; Neoliberalism and its alternatives: orthodoxies and heterodoxies; Political Economy I: Basics in Macroeconomics |
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moral and political philosophy, distributive justice, gender justice, childhood and childrearing, children and politics, the ethics of personal relationships, partiality | Introduction to Political Theory: Justice and Equality; Childrearing in Political Philosophy; Methods in Political Philosophy |
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varieties of capitalism, social movements | Social Movements, Contentious Politics, and Democracy; 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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On sabbatical in 2021/22 |
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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 | Process Tracing; Field Research and Qualitative Data Analysis; Hybrid Regimes in Modern Times; Data Analysis Tools for Qualitative Research in Social Sciences; Political Economy II: Core Issues and Conceptual Frameworks in Political Economy; Process Tracing |
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decision theory, organization theories, bureaucratic politics, foreign policy, history of the cold war | Constitutionalism and Democracy; Representation, Power and Manipulation in Legislatures, Democracy Promotion; Central and Eastern Europe and the EU; Political Economy: Rational Choice and Collective Action |
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moral and political philosophy, distributive justice, political obligation, democratic theory | Foundations of Political Philosophy; Political Theory; Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice; Democratic Theory |
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Andres Moles (Head of Department) |
contemporary political and moral philosophy, liberalism, democratic theory, social and distributive justice | Political Concepts and Ideologies; Killing |
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data analysis, applied statistics, survey methodology, mathematical statistics | Basics in Quantitative Research; Multivariate Statistics; Mathematical Statistics; Survey Methodology |
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Biopolitics, ethical, legal, social implications of health care and biotechnologies, privacy, reproductive rights, gender policies, biotechnological patents, enhancement, human rights | On sabbatical in 2021/22 |
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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; Nations and Society |
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Carsten Q. Schneider (MA Program Director) |
political regime change, political inequalities, set-theoretic methods in the social sciences, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), comparative methodology and research design, autocratic regimes |
Comparative Case Study Research; Comparative Political Research; Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Performing Basics and Advanced Analyses using R (CIVICA course); The Political Economy of Regime Change |
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experiments, public opinion, surveys, prejudice, usa politics | Identity and Prejudice; Introduction to Political Communication; Political Behavior; Frontiers of Political Research: Topics, Trends, Techniques; Introduction to Causal Inference; Prospectus Seminar |
More information on courses: https://courses.ceu.edu/unit/43/courses