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.
More information on courses: https://courses.ceu.edu/unit/43/courses
| Faculty | Research Interests | Courses in Academic Year 2023/2024 |
| Mariyana Angelova | legislative politics, coalition governments, voter perceptions and behavior, surveys, experiments, EU policy-making and compliance | Introduction to Statistics and Programming in R I, Introduction to Statistics and Programming with R II, Social Media and Democracy |
| Daniel Bochsler | ethnic politics, Central and Eastern Europe, political transition/democratisation, elections, political institutions | Elections and Democracy |
| Matthijs Bogaards | Ethnic conflict, civil war, democratization, deliberative democracy, African politics, gender, terrorism, hybrid regimes. | Comparative European Politics, Terrorism: A Comparative Politics Perspective |
| Andras Bozoki | political and social change, democratization, Central European politics, hybrid regimes, political ideologies, democratic theory, elite theory, anarchism, the role of intellectuals | Central Europe: Natural and Symbolic Geography – History, Culture, and Politics, Comparative Politics Group 2, Political Change: Evolution and Revolution, Political Ideologies and Intellectuals |
| Björn Bremer | comparative politics, international political economy, and political behavior, politics of macroeconomic policies, welfare state politics, and the political consequences of economic crises | Basics in Quantitative Research - Group 2, Political Economy - Group 2 |
| Anil Duman (Head of Department) | political economy, welfare states, social policy, inequality and labor markets | Welfare States in the Current Era: Origins, Issues and Challenges |
| Zsolt Enyedi (MA Program Director) | 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 | Ideologies and Politics of Illiberalism |
| Attila Folsz | the political economy of post-communist transitions, monetary and exchange rate politics, European integration | Political Economy - Group 1, Scope and Methods: Research Design and Techniques Group 1&2 - MA1 |
| Anca Gheaus | moral and political philosophy, distributive justice, gender justice, childhood and childrearing, children and politics, the ethics of personal relationships, partiality | The family: gender and childrearing |
| Bela Greskovits | varieties of capitalism, social movements | Social Movements |
| Melis Laebens | democratic backsliding, political parties and electoral behavior | Comparative Politics - Group 1, Qualitative Research Methods |
| Inna Melnykovska | 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, Interviewing and Qualitative Data Analysis, Hybrid and Illiberal Regimes, Introduction to Political Economy |
| Zoltan Miklosi | moral and political philosophy, distributive justice, political obligation, democratic theory | Introduction to Political Theory, Political Theory: Justice and Equality - Group 2 |
| Andres Moles | contemporary political and moral philosophy, liberalism, democratic theory, social and distributive justice | Political Theory: Justice and Equality - Group 1 |
| Judit Sandor | Biopolitics, ethical, legal, social implications of health care and biotechnologies, privacy, reproductive rights, gender policies, biotechnological patents, enhancement, human rights | New Technologies and Human Rights |
| Robert Sata | Ethnic relations, minority rights, migration and citizenship issues, Roma rights, political discourse, populism and democratic decline, Europeanization, gender politics, media analysis | Migration, Borders, Integration and Activism in Europe, Scope and Methods: Research Design and Techniques - MA2 |
| Carsten Q. Schneider | 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, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Performing Basics and Advanced Analyses using R |
| Gabor Simonovits | experiments, public opinion, surveys, prejudice, usa politics | Introduction to Public Opinion, Political Communications, Political Behavior, Basics in Quantitative Research - Group 1 |
| Imre Szabo | comparative political economy, employment relations, labor movements, welfare states and public services | The Future of Work - Challenges for Politics and Policy |