Annual Doctoral Conference 2006

Department Of Political Science

Central European University

Thursday, April 13 and Friday, April 14, 2006

Last update: April 24 , 2006.  10:55  Robert

Thursday, April 13, 2006

9:00-9:50    Department of Political Science

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Thursday, April 13, 2006

10:00-12:00    Auditorium

Zarko Puhovski
Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Zagreb

"Transitional Morality"

Thursday, April 13, 2006

 Political Theory

Andras Miklos

Egalitarian Cosmopolitanism and Territorial Institutions

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Attila Tanyi

Republican Citizenship and National Identity

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Andras Miklos

Attila Tanyi

Reason and Desire

            Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Laura Andronache

Chair: Sonia Amadae

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Labor and Welfare

Tibor Meszmann

Evolution and devolution of socialist self-management systems: Poland and Yugoslavia

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Daniel Pop

Magdalena Bernaciak

Labor transnationalism: cross-border cooperation between European trade unions

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Tibor Meszmann

Eva Forrai

The ability to form autonomous households in ‘basic security’ welfare regimes

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Gabriela Borz

Andrija Henjak

Political implication of fragmented class structure

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Oana Lup

Chair: Aida Hozic

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Coffee Break

Thursday, April 13, 2006

16:00-18:00    Popper Room

State and Private Actors

Evgeni Evgeniev

State-Sector Aptitude Building (SSAB) -  Textile and apparel industry in Turkey and Bulgaria

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Marine Pachuashvili

Daniel Horn

Institutions of educational inequality – school choice in Hungary

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Evgeni Evgeniev

Marine Pachuashvili

The Politics of Educational Choice: Explaining the Diversity in Post-communist Higher Education Policy Choices

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Daniel Horn

Chair: Carol Harrington

Thursday, April 13, 2006

16:00-18:00    Gellner Room

New Democracies

Stela Garaz

Strong Presidents in Post Soviet Divided Societies: “Winner-Take-All” Actors or Inter-Group Mediators?

Abstract  Paper 

Discussant: Ildiko Kaposi

Gabriela Borz

Determinants of party unity in Central Eastern Europe

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Andrija Henjak

Ildiko Kaposi

New Media and New Democracies

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Gabriela Borz

Chair: Gabor Toka

Orji Nkwachukwu

New Media and New Democracies
Abstract  Paper
Tabled Paper

Thursday, April 13, 2006

19:30-   

Dinner

Venhajo Restaurant

Friday, April 14, 2006

10:00-12:30    Popper Room

Political Economy

Istvan Benczes

The relevance of an expansionary fiscal consolidation in Hungary – a critical assessment

Abstract  Paper

Discussant: Balazs Szepesi

Daniel Pop

Public capital investment and private capital productivity

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Istvan Benczes

Svetoslav Salkin

Signalling and Commitment Properties of Partial Privatisation

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Daniel Pop

Balazs Szepesi 

Interaction – First Chapter of Dissertation: Political Economy of Policies for Policies for Development  
Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Svetoslav Salkin

Chair: Gergely Bognar

Friday, April 14, 2006

10:00-12:30    Gellner Room

International Dimension of Politics

Eszter Simon   

Two Tales of a Crisis: Executive Constraint in the United Kingdom in dealing with the Suez Crisis

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Asta Maskaliunaite

Natalia Timus

The impact of European integration on party politics and party systems of East European neighboring states.
The relationship between European issue and ideological dimension of a political space

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Luciana Ghica

Asta Maskaliunaite

State-nation-violence. A triangle of political discourse in Spain

           Abstract  Paper

Discussant: Natalia Timus

Luciana Ghica 

Why go regional and how to get it wrong: Romania’s problems with regional cooperation

           Abstract  Paper

Discussant: Eszter Simon

Chair: Nenad Dimitrijevic

Lunch Break

Friday, April 14, 2006
14:00-16:00   Popper Room

Issues of Governance

Liia Karsakova

Russia as a Petro-State: Understanding Russian Developmental Path

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Attila Tanyi

Masa Djordjevic

Politics of Urban Developmental Planning: Building Urban Governance in Post-Socialist Warsaw?

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Liia Karsakova

Dion Curry

Relations Revisited: The Role of Cooperation in Intergovernmental Policy Making

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Masa Djordjevic

Friday, April 14, 2006
14:00-16:00   Gellner Room

Political Culture

Maximilian Spinner

Consensual or agonistic democracy? Patterns of elite political culture in CEE

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Laura Andronache

Oana Lup

When does others’ influence matter? An analysis of the political relevance of personal networks in Hungary

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Maximilian Spinner

Sevgi Adak Turan

Similar Histories, Different Trajectories: Secularization in Turkey and Iran from a Comparative Perspective (1924-1979)

Abstract  Paper
Discussant: Oana Lup

Chair: Judit Sandor