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 2020/2021 |
| legislative politics, coalition governments, voter perceptions and behavior, surveys, experiments, EU policy-making and compliance | Parties and Party Systems, Voting Behavior, Media Systems and Democracy, Introduction to Political Institutions | |
| ethnic politics, Central and Eastern Europe, political transition/democratisation, elections, political institutions | Comparative European Politics, Prospectus Seminar, Elections and Democracy I. |
| divided societies, democratic performance, civil war, terrorism, deliberation, African politics | Scopes and Methods: Research Design and Techniques, Terrorism: A Comparative Politics Perspective, Political Institutions, Introduction to Comparative Politics: History, Topics, and Methods, Introduction to Comparative Methodology |
| political change, democratization, East Central European politics, political elites, hybrid regimes, political ideologies, and the political role of intellectuals | Analyzing Democracy, Political Ideologies, Comparative Politics, Political Sociology and Political Economy |
| Politics and political economy of transnational markets; EU integration and development in the Eastern and Southern peripheries of Europe; Regulatory integration and development | The Political Economy of Regime Change, Introduction to Political Economy: Interests, Institutions and Ideas |
| post-conflict, transitional justice, reconciliation and recovery processes, political and social psychology, human rights, victims' participation, reparations, conflict related gender-based violence, critical qualitative research | Critical Qualitative Research Methods, Transitional Justice, Fostering Peace in Divided Societies |
| political economy, welfare states, social policy, inequality and labor markets | Welfare States in the Current Era: Origins, Issues and Challenges, Political Economy II: Core Issues and Conceptual Frameworks in Political Economy, Globalization and Inequality |
| 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 | on sabbatical |
| the political economy of post-communist transitions, monetary and exchange rate politics, European integration | Concepts in Political Economy, Political Economy I: Basics in Macroeconomics |
| moral and political philosophy, distributive justice, gender justice, childhood and childrearing, children and politics, the ethics of personal relationships, partiality | Childrearing in political philosophy, Global Justice, Theories of Justice |
| varieties of capitalism, social movements | Social Movements |
| US Politics, Political Psychology; Socialization, Physiology, Genetics and Neuroscience of Political Attitudes and Behaviors; Technology and Politics, Research Design; Survey Methodology; Qualitative Methods | Comparative European Politics, Introduction to Quantitative Social Research, Programming in R, US Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump, Populism |
| business elites (foci: tycoons, startups), business-state relations, patronal politics; global capital mobility, financial regulations and off/onshore havens; hybrid regimes, competitive authoritarianism, defective democracy; EU Neighborhood Policy; NATO’s Partnership for Peace; Russia’s and China’s foreign policies and regional integration in Eurasia | Process Tracing, Field Research and Qualitative Data Analysis, Hybrid Regimes in Modern Times, The Political Economy of Regime Change, Political Sociology and Political Economy |
| decision theory, organization theories, bureaucratic politics, foreign policy, history of the cold war | Constitutionalism and Democracy, Representation, Power and Manipulation in Legislatures, Democracy Promotion |
Zoltan Miklosi (Head of Department) | moral and political philosophy, distributive justice, political obligation, democratic theory | Foundations of Political Philosophy, Political Theory |
Andres Moles (MA Program Director) | contemporary political and moral philosophy, liberalism, democratic theory, social and distributive justice | Introduction to Political Theory: Justice and Equality, Political Institutions, Political Concepts and Ideologies |
| data analysis, applied statistics, survey methodology, mathematical statistics | Introduction to Data Science, Multivariate Statistics, Advanced Methods: Survey Methodology, Advanced Methods: Mathematical Statistics |
| Biopolitics, ethical, legal, social implications of health care and biotechnologies, privacy, reproductive rights, gender policies, biotechnological patents, enhancement, human rights | on sabbatical |
| 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; What is Political Science? The Study of Political Theories, Institutions and Actors |
| 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, Frontiers of Political Research: Topics, Trends, Techniques, Advanced Methods: QCA |
| experiments, public opinion, surveys, prejudice, usa politics | Intermediate Quantitative Social Research, Frontiers of Political Research: Topics, Trends, Techniques, Intro. Political Communication, Advanced Methods: Causal Inference |
More information on courses: https://courses.ceu.edu/unit/43/courses