Julian Casanova publishes article in El Pais
Current Visiting Professor to Central European University - Department of Political Science, Julian Casanova (Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza) has contributed with yet another important article about Hungary to the paper El País. His latest article is titled Budapest 1944 and deals with the Nazi occupation of Hungary. A respected voice in Spanish journalism, Professor Casanova is member of the Editorial Committe of the journal Historia Social and member of the Advisary Board of The International Journal of Iberian Studies (Bradford, England) and Cuadernos de Historia de España (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and is also Visiting Professor in several and prestigious Universities of England, USA and South America. The article (in Spanish) can be found here.
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Our Department Top Ranked in the World!
According to the latest QS rankings, released in 2011, CEU’s Political Science, Philosophy, and Sociology programs are among the world’s best. The Political Science department rated highest and among the top 51 to 100 overall. The philosophy department made it onto the top 101 to 150 list; the sociology department was included among the top 151 to 200. Our department ranked highest and among Hungarian universities, only CEU scored three programs in the top 200. CEU’s social sciences faculty was one of only three in Central Europe to rank in the top 200, along with the University of Vienna and Charles University in Prague.
Read about the ranking in the press in English
And more about the ranking can be found here.
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Julian Casanova publishes article in El Pais
Current Visiting Professor to Central European University - Department of
Political Science, Julian Casanova (Professor of Contemporary History at the
University of Zaragoza) has contributed an important article about Hungary to
the paper El País. The article explains how the harsh realities of Hungarian history divided the people and how politicians use history according to their interests and for their own benefits. Describing the circumstances of the creation of the Mememento Museum and the House of Terror, the article introduces to the Spanish-speaking public the difficulties of confronting the traumas of Hungarian history. A respected voice in Spanish journalism, Professor Casanova is member of the Editorial Committe of the journal Historia Social and member of the Advisary Board of The International Journal of Iberian Studies (Bradford, England) and Cuadernos de Historia de España (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and is also Visiting Professor in several and prestigious Universities of England, USA and South America. The article (in Spanish) can be found here.
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Tamas Rudas receives Academy Prize
Tamas Rudas, Recurrent Visiting Professor at the department, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , University Professor and Department Head of the Eötvös Lóránd University Budapest (ELTE) Faculty of Social Sciences has received the prestigious Academy Prize [Akadémiai Díj] in recognition of his outstanding scientific work in the fields of categorial data analysis and application of log-linear models. For more information (in Hungarian) follow this link.
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Daniel Horn receives Unicredit&Universities Foundation Best CEE PhD award
Daniel Horn, our PhD graduate received the Unicredit&Universities Foundation Best CEE PhD award for 2010 for his dissertation "Essays on Educational Institutions and Inequality of Opportunity." For more information follow this link.
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Nenad Dimitrijevic - Dutry to Respond
The Department cordially invites you to the book launch and round table to celebrate Nenad Dimitrijevic's new book: Duty to Respond - Mass Crime, Denial and Collective Responsibility. The event takes place on Feb. 15, 2011, MB 203, 5:30 pm. Participants include Janos Kis, Andres Moles, and Zoltan Miklosi. The central claim of the book is that all members of the group in whose name collective crime is committed share responsibility for it. Duty to Respond discusses the analytical and normative defense of arguments that purport to explain reasons for, and the character of the responsibility of decent people. Those who did not intend, support, or commit wrong, are still accountable in a non-vicarious manner. The basis of their responsibility is the crime-specific relationship between group identity and personal identity. This fact-rich review of emblematic political events in the recent past shows not only what it means to assume responsibility for the criminal actions of a corrupt regime but also frames the argument in the context of a critique of moral relativism.
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Pawel Goralski - Polish Ministry of Education Award.
Pawel Goralski, first year MA student at the Department, received a prestigious award from the Polish Ministry of Education for scientific and cultural activity for the 2010/11 Academic Year. For more information, follow this link.
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Andras Bozoki - ECPSA Board Member
Andras Bozoki, Professor at the CEU Political Science Department, has been elected to the executive board of the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA). The association includes representatives of 28 national political science associations from all over Europe. He will serve his second term as member of the board.
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Zsolt Enyedi - President of the Hungarian Political Science Association
Zsolt Enyedi, Associate Professor and Head of the Department at the Department of Political Science was elected President of the Hungarian Political Science Association. The President serves for three years and can be reelected once. Two other members of the Department, Andras Bozoki and Gabor Toka, were elected into the Presidium. CEU has never had such a strong representation in the Presidium of the Association. For more information about the Hungarian Political Science Association click here.
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Roxana Radu - Special Prize for Academic Excellence
The League of Romanian Students Studying Abroad awarded a Special Prize for Academic Excellence to Roxana Radu (the only award given for social sciences). The most important criteria of selection were: the ranking of the university, distinctions and prizes received in international competitions, academic publications. For more info, click here.
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The Department ranked among top European universities
The Die Zeit published the European ranking of universities in seven disciplines, including political science. The results are public at www.zeit.de/excellenceranking. 52 Universities have been selected into this “excellence” group and besides our department, only three other departments from the region made it onto the list. The departments were evaluated on ten dimensions and the best ones received “stars”. Our department received five stars, toping 41 universities. This publication sends the message that CEU is one of the best in Europe in Political Science.
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The Department and cordially invites to to an exclusive direct videoconference (including opportunity to ask questions), accompanying conference of the NATO Defense Ministers Meeting 22. October, 2009 (Thursday) Popper room (CEU, Nador u. 9). More information is available under 'events'.
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The Department and the ERSTE Foundation invite you to a Panel Discussion, followed by a reception, on "Reclaiming Democracry: Civil Society and Electoral Change in Central and Eastern Europe. More information is available under 'events'.
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The Department invites you to the ESCAS Conference 2009, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 3-5 September 2009. More information under 'events'.
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Andrija Henjak will defend his PhD dissertation on 25 June 2009, 11 a.m. The defense will take place in CEU's Senate Room. His thesis Socioeconomic Change, Changing Political Cleavages, and the Emergence of New Parties is available for download on this site by clicking the title.
Gabriela Borz will defend her PhD dissertation on 26 June 2009, 11 a.m. The defense will take place in CEU's Senate Room. Her thesis Determinants of Party Unity in Europe. A Comparative Study of Parliamentary Parties in Twenty-three Countries is available for download on this site by clicking the title.
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Natalia Timus will defend her PhD dissertation on 11 May 2009, 9:30 a.m. The defense will take place in CEU's Gellner Room. Her thesis The Influence of European Integration on Party and Party System Development in East European Neighborhood is available for download on this site by clicking the title.
The PhD Defense Committee is composed by Flemming Splidsboel Hansen, Royal Danish Defense College, Copenhagen; Peter Mair, European University Institute, Florence; Agnes Batory, CEU; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU supervisor.
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Anna Horváth will defend her PhD dissertation on 11 May 2009, 9:30 a.m. The defense will take place in CEU's Gellner Room. Her thesis The Social Protection Committee after the Enlargement of the EU: Discursive Mechanisms of Organisational and Policy Adjustment and Contestation is available for download on this site by clicking the title.
The PhD Defense Committee is composed by Thomas Christiansen, European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht; Dorothee Bohle, CEU; and Uwe Puetter, CEU, supervisor.
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The Department of Political Science together with the departments of IRES, Public Policy, Nationalism and Philosophy is delighted to invite you all to a Christmas Party to be held on Monday, December 8th, starting from 7 o’clock in the evening, at the Blue Tomato Pub, 13th district, Pannónia street 5-7, see map.
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The 2008/09 Academic Year starts on 22 September 2008. The Department welcomes 48 MA students and 9 PhD candidates. We are excited as our new two year MA program in Political Science, accredited in Hungary will welcome its first students. Curricula for both MA programs and the PhD program has been uploaded to the relevant sections of the website. We are delighted to welcome three new faculty members on board: Levente Littvay, Andres Moles, and Zoltan Miklosi. We wish everybody a very successful academic year.
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The Department cordially invites you to the talks below. The talks are part of the selection process for the faculty position in Political Theory at the Department of Political Science.
Job talks on 15 May, 2008
Bruno Macaes: Is There a Problem with Democracy?
Ph.D. from Harvard University
Assistant Professor at the European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin, Germany
Time & place: May 15, 5 p.m., FT 809
Job talks on 16 May, 2008
Marian Eabrasu: A Critique of Libertarian Theory of Justice
PhD in Political Science from Paris VIII Saint-Denis University
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the International Centre for Economic Research, Turin, Italy
Time & place: May 16, 9.30 a.m., FT 809
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Andres Moles:Toward Ecological Liberalism: Justice and Mental Contamination”
PhD in Political Science from University of Warwick
Time & place: May 16, 11 a.m., FT 809
Job talks on 19 May, 2008
Zoltán Miklósi: Fair Equality of Opportunity and the Difference Principle
PhD in Philosophy from Eötvös Loránd University
CEU Visiting professor
Time & place: May 19, 9.30 a.m., FT 809
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Sterling Lynch: Condorcet's Jury Theorem and the Operations of Government
PhD in Philosophy from University of Auckland
Adviser, Policy and Communications, in the Office of Ms. Colleen Beaumier, a Member of Parliament in the Government of Canada
Time & place: May 19, 11 a.m., FT 809
The Department cordially invites you to the talks below. The talks are part of the selection process for the faculty position in Party Politics/Quantitative Research Methods at the Department of Political Science.
Levente Littvay: "The Story of the Voting Machine that Ate 15,000 Votes"
Ph.D. in Research Methods and Comparative Politics form University of Nebraska- Lincoln
CEU Post-doctoral Fellow
Time: April 28, 1 p.m.
Place: FT 809
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Slava Mikhaylov: "Coder Reliability and Misclassification in Comparative Manifesto Project Codings" - paper available upon request
Ph.D. (candidate) in Political Science from Trinity College, University of Dublin
Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, at Trinity College, University of Dublin
Time: April 28, 3 p.m.
Place: FT 809
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Ozge Kemahlioglu: "When the Agent Becomes the Boss: Intra- Party Politics and Patronage Jobs"
Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, New York
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, at Florida State University
Time: April 28, 5 p.m.
Place: FT 809
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Martin Elff: "Social Divisions, Parties' Positions, and Electoral Behavior"
Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Mannheim
Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, at University of Mannheim
Time: April 30, 9 a.m.
Place: FT 809
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Kenneth Benoit: "Treating Words as Data with Error: Estimating Uncertainty in Measures of Party Policy Positions"
Ph.D. from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Professor of Quantitative Social Research in the Department of Political Science, at Trinity College, University of Dublin
Time: April 30, 11 a.m.
Place: FT 809
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The Department of Political Science together with the departments of IRES, Public Policy and Nationalism is delighted to invite you all to a Carnival Party to be held on Saturday,February 2nd, starting from 8 o’clock in the evening, at the Blue Tomato Pub, 13th district, Pannónia street 5-7, map: http://utcakereso.hu/bp.13.Pannónia_u.5. The closest metro stop is Nyugati Station. We hope to see you all there!
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The winter semester starts today, 7 January 2008. We wish you a Happy New Year and a very successful semester!
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Zsolt Enyedi became Acting PhD Director since present PhD Director, Carsten Schneider is on sabbatical this semester.
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The department is happy to announce that this year's departmental field trip will be organized Saturday, 6 October 2007. Students and faculty will be notified via email about the details of the trip that will give you a chance to visit the beautiful town of Szeged.
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The Fall Semester started today 25 September 2007.
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New students arrived on 9 September 2007. Orientation started on 10 September 2007 at the main campus location - Nador u. 9, Budapest.
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The department will host about fifty new Master of Arts students and six candidates in the Doctor of Philosophy program in Political Science.
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New curiculum for the 2007/08 Academic Year has been uploaded to the website, as well as the schedules for the fall semester.