Professor
Nador 15, 505
phone: (36 1) 327-3000/3085
e-mail: bozokia [at] ceu.hu
András Bozóki's main fields of research include democratization, political ideas, Central European politics, political and cultural elites, and the role of intellectuals. He has published on post-communist transition, comparative democratization, anarchist ideas and movements, transformation of political elites, the European public sphere, and intellectuals in politics.
András Bozóki is the former Chairman of the Hungarian Political Science Association (2003-5). He was also a member of the executive council of the European Political Science Network (2002-8). Since 2008, he has been member of the executive committee of the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA).
His publications include four authored books in Hungarian (one of them co-authored), two in English (co-authored), fourteen edited volumes in Hungarian, and six edited volumes in English (four of them co-edited), and many articles in journals and collective volumes in several languages and countries. His recent works include Anarchism in Hungary: Theory, History, Legacies (co-author), The Roundtable Talks of 1989: The Genesis of Hungarian Democracy (editor), The Communist Successor Parties in Central and Eastern Europe (co-editor), and the Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe (editor)
Professor Bozóki has taught at universities in the United States (Columbia University, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College), in Britain (Nottingham), Germany (Tübingen), Italy (Bologna University), and in his native Hungary (Eötvös Loránd University). He gave invited lectures at several universities, from Harvard to Hong Kong University, in all continents.
He has been a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, Germany, at UCLA in Los Angeles, US, at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, at the Sussex European Institute in Brighton, UK, and at the Institute for Humane Sciences in Vienna, Austria.
He was a founding editor of the Hungarian Political Science Review (1992-99), the academic journal of the Hungarian Political Science Association. Since 2000, he has been member of the editorial associates of the journal. He serves as member of the editorial associates of the European Political Science, the CEU Political Science Review, the Journal of Political Science Education, the Baltic Worlds, and the Taiwan Journal of Democracy.
In 1989, András Bozóki participated at the roundtable negotiations; in 2003-4, he was advisor to the Prime Minister. In 2005-6, András Bozóki served as Minister of Culture of Hungary.
Courses Taught:
2011/12
Political Dynamics in Central Europe
Political Sociology
Topics and Methods in Comparative Politics
2010/11
Political Dynamics in Central Europe
Political Sociology
2009/10
Political Dynamics in Central Europe
Contemporary Political Ideologies
2008/09
Patterns of Political Change
Revolution and the State
Political Dynamics in Central Europe
Elite Theory in Political Sociology
2007/08
Central European Politics
Political Change
Elite Theory