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Self-Reflection of Post-Criminal Societies: From Denial to Moral Responsibility
by Sanja Pesek
Defense Committee: Larry May, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Law, and Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University; Janos Kis, CEU; Zoltan Miklosi, CEU; Nenad Dimitrijevic, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 7 October 2011.The Relevance of Micro Social Contexts for Individual Political Engagement: A Comparative Analysis
by Oana Lup
Defense Committee: Paul Allen Beck, Ohio State University; Rudiger Schmitt-Beck, Universitat Mannheim; Tamas Rudas, ELTE and CEU; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU; Gabor Toka, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 12 September 2011.Trade Union Responses to Cross-Border Competition in the Enlarged EU: Evidence from the Automotive and Construction Sectors
by Magdalena Bernaciak
Defense Committee: Guglielmo Meardi, Warwick Business School; Bob Hancke, London School of Economics; Anil Duman, CEU; Bela Greskovits, CEU; Dorothee Bohle, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 23 May 2011.
The Effects of Soft Budget Constraints on Market Development: The Case of Russian Regions
by Aitalina Azarova
Defense Committee: Nikolay Petrov, Carnegie Moscow Center; Tamas Rudas, CEU; Matteo Fumagalli, CEU; Gabor Toka, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 10 June 2010.Essays on the Causes and Consequences of Educational Institutions on Inequality of Opportunity
by Daniel Horn
Defense Committee: Daniele Checchi, University of Milan; Balázs Váradi, Eötvös Loránd University; Gábor Tóka, CEU; Gábor Kézdi, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 28 April 2010.Governing Fragmented Societies: State-Building and Political Integration in Chechnya and Ingushetia (1991-2009)
by Ekaterina Sokirianskaia
Defense Committee: Moshe Gammer, Tel-Aviv University; Andras Bozoki, CEU; Matteo Fumagalli, CEU; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 2 April 2010.
Contemporary Republican Strategies for ‘Civic Virtue’ and the Notion of Political Obligation
by Laura Andronache
Defense Committee: Iseult Honohan, University College Dublin; Janos Kis, Philosophy and Political Science, CEU; Petr Lom, supervisor.
Defended: 11 December 2009.Organizational Design of Welfare-Enhancing Public Bureaucracy: A Comparative Analysis of Russia's Regions
by Marina Nistotskaya
Defense Committee: Gary Miller, Washington University in St. Louis; Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, University of Nottingham; Levente Littvay, CEU; Tamas Meszerics, supervisor.
Defended: 13 November 2009.The New Politics of Higher Education: Governmental Policy Choices and Private Higher Education in Post-communist Countries
by Marie Pachuashvili
Defense Committee: Daniel Levy, SUNY Albany; Ildiko Hrubos, Corvinus University; Gyorgy Gereby, Medieval Studies, CEU; Balazs Varadi, supervisor.
Defended: 19 October 2009.The Emerging mandate of EU Law in Health care: A Legal Analysis of the Influence of Internal Market Implementation on Access to Health Care in Hungary and Slovenia
by Eva Maria Foldes
Defense Committee: Herman Nys, Professor of Law, University of Leuven; Gábor Juhász, Professor of Social Policy, ELTE; Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky, Professor of Law, CEU; Anton Pelinka, Professor of Political Science, CEU; and Judit Sándor, Professor of Political Science and Law, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 16 September 2009.Determinants of Party Unity in Europe. A Comparative Study of Parliamentary Parties in Twenty-three Countries
by Gabriela Borz
Defense Committee: Kenneth Janda, Northwestern University; Ingrid van Biezen, University of Birmingham; Gabor Toka, CEU; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 26 June 2009.Socioeconomic Change, Changing Political Cleavages, and the Emergence of New Parties
by Andrija Henjak
Defense Committee: Hermann Schmitt, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, Universität Mannheim; Radoslaw Markowski, Chair, Dept. of Political Science, Warsaw School of Social Psychology; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU; Gabor Toka, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 25 June 2009.The Influence of European Integration on Party and Party System Development in East European Neighborhood
by Natalia Timus
Defense Committee: Flemming Splidsboel Hansen, Royal Danish Defense College, Copenhagen; Peter Mair, European University Institute, Florence; Agnes Batory, CEU; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 16 June 2009.The Social Protection Committee after the Enlargement of the EU: Discursive Mechanisms of Organisational and Policy Adjustment and Contestation
by Anna Horvath
Defense Committee: Thomas Christiansen, European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht; Dorothee Bohle, CEU; Uwe Putter, CEU supervisor.
Defensed: 11 May 2009.
The Causes and Effects of the Developmental Risk-taking of Democracies: Comparing the United States and Great Britain
by Hairong Lai
Defense Committee: Zheng Yongnian, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham; Maria Csanadi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Tamas Meszerics, CEU; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 21 November 2008.Friendship Communities? The Politics of Regional Intergovernmental Cooperation in Eastern Europe 1990-2007
by Luciana Ghica
Defense Committee: Stefan Wolff, Professor, Nottingham University; Dimitar Bechev, Research Fellow, Oxford University; Balazs Trencseny, History Dept., CEU; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU; Andras Bozoki, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 7 November 2008.Power-sharing - The Element of Continuity in Nigerian Politics
by Nkwachukwu Orji
Defense Committee: Raufu Mustapha, St. Anthony College, Oxford, UK; Cyril Obi, Nordic Africa Institute and Department of Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Uppsala, Sweeden; Nenad Dimitrijevic, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 29 August 2008.Democratic Regime Types and the International Risk-taking of Democracies: Comparing the United States and Great Britain
by Eszter Simon
Defense Committee: Andras Bozoki, CEU, Chair; Paul Roe IRES, CEU; Cooper A. Drury, University of Missouri, US; Tamás Meszerics, CEU supervisor
Defended: 2 June 2008.Signaling and Commitment Properties of Partial Privatization
by Svetoslav Salkin
Defense Committee: Ruben Mnatsakanian, Environmental Sciences Dept., CEU, Chair; Andrzej Baniak, Economics Dept., CEU; Anil Duman, CEU; Sujoy Mukerji, Oxford University, UK; Julius Horvath, Economics Dept., CEU supervisor.
Defended: 28 January 2008.
Some Political Economy Insights to Multi-Level Government Financing Mechanisms in Hungary
by Judit Kalman
Defense Committee: Attila Fölsz, CEU; Linda Goncalves Veiga, University of Minho, Portugal; Tamás Meszerics, CEU; Violetta Zentai, CPS, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 28 November 2007.
Political Economy of Public Development Activities
by Balazs Szepesi
Defense Committee: Attila Fölsz, CEU; Gábor Virág, University of Rochester, US; Anil Duman, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 8 November 2007.
Policy Change, Growth and Converegence Processes. The Experience of the CEE-10 Countries during EU Accession Negotiations
by Daniel Pop
Defense Committee: Attila Fölsz, CEU; András Blahó, Corvinus University, László Csaba, IRES, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 29 October 2007.
International Tax Competition in Europe: The Case of Transport Fuel Excises
by Laszlo Paizs
Defense Committee: Tamás Meszerics, CEU; Péter Kaderják, Corvinus University, Gábor Kézdi, Economics Dept., CEU supervisor.
Defended: 15 October 2007.A Long Term Terrorist Campaign and Political Discourse: The Role of ETA in Spanish Politics
by Asta Maskaliunaite
Defense Committee: Paul Roe, IRES, CEU; Josetxu Martinez Montoya, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain; Carol Harrington, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 7 September 2007.Compulsory Consensus? The Sources of Elite Political Culture and the Consolidation of Central and East European Democracies
by Maximilian Spinner
Defense Committee: Sorina Soare, Free University of Brussels, Belgium ; Jurg Steiner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU; András Bozóki, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 12 April 2007.
An Essay on the Desire-based Reasons Model
by Attila Tanyi
Defense Committee: Ferenc Huoranszki, Philosophy Dept., CEU; Krister Bykvist, Jesus College, Oxford University, UK; János Kis, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 14 December 2006.Industrial and Firm Upgrading in the European Periphery: The Textile and Apparel Industry in Turkey and Bulgaria
by Evgeni Evgeniev
Defense Committee: Colic Crouch, University of Warwick, UK; Mihaly Laki, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Béla Greskovits, IRES and Political Science Dept., CEU; Jaap Dronkers, EUI, Italy; Dorothee Bohle, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 11 December 2006.Personal Assets and Justice
by Neven Petrovic
Defense Committee: Howard M. Robinson, Philosophy Dept., CEU, Chair; János Kis, CEU; Neven Sesardic, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Ferenc Huoránszki, Philosophy dept., CEU supervisor.
Defended: 30 November 2006.Institutions in Global Distributive Justice
by Andras Miklos
Defense Committee: Alexander Astrov, IRES, CEU; Zoltán Miklósi, CEU; Thomas Pogge, Columbia University, US; Janos Kis, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 23 November 2006.
Virtual Deliberation An Ethnography of Online Political Discussion in Hungary
by Ildiko Kaposi
Defense Committee: Balazs Vedres, CEU, Chair; Miklos Sukosd, CEU; Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds, UK; Lajos Csaszi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Nick Jankowski, Radboud University, NL, Tamás Meszerics, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 15 November 2006.Institutional Conditions of Expansionary Fiscal Consolidations
by Istvan Benczes
Defense Committee: Julius Horvath, IRES and Economics Dept., CEU, György Szapáry, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Hungary; Attila Fölsz, CEU; László Csaba, IRES, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 17 October 2006.The Budapest Budgeting Reform Strategy between 1995 and 1999
by Katalin Pallai
Defense Committee: Tamás M. Horváth, University of Debrecen; Gábor Péteri, LGI Development Ltd., Dorothee Bohle, CEU; Robert Ebel, World Bank supervisor.
Defended: 16 October 2006.Multicultural Liberalism: Towards a Normative Theory of Ethnic Relations
by Robert Sata
Defense Committee: Erin K. Jenne, IRES, CEU; Levente Salat, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania; Nenad Dimitrijevic, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 29 September 2006.The Effect of Strategic Planning on Urban Governing Arrangements
by Masa Djordjevici
Defense Committee: Gerry Stoker, University of Manchester, UK; Pawel Swianiewicz, Warsaw University, Poland; Violetta Zentai, CPS, CEU; Paul Kantor, Fordham University, US; Tamás Meszerics, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 6 September 2006.What Local Media Tells Us about Post-Communist Democracy
by Tanja Gosselin
Defense Committee: Ken Newton, University of Southampton, UK; Tamas Rudas, ELTE and CEU; Kees Aarts, University of Twente, NL; Gabor Toka, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 5 May 2006.A Reason-based Justification for Liberal Democratic Authority
by Ruzha Smilova
Defense Committee: Nenad Dimitrijevic, CEU; Wojciech Sadurski, EUI, Italy; János Kis, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 4 February 2006."Unidentified Shareholders:" The Politics of Banking in Russia
by Anastasia Gnezditskaia
Defense Committee: Julius Horvath, IRES and Economics Dept., CEU; Juliet Johnson, McGill University, Canada; Laszlo Bruszt, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 20 January 2006.The Euro before the EU? An Estimate of the Effect of Euroization on Trade and Growth of Albania, Macedonia, and Serbia
by Altin Ilirjani
Defense Committee: László Csaba, IRES, CEU; Vladimir Gligorov, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies;Attila Fölsz, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 11 January 2006.
Local Party Institutionalization in Hungary
by Gabor Soos
Defense Committee: Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux; Pawel Swianiewicz, Warsaw University, Poland; Violetta Zentai, CPS, CEU; Gábor Tóka, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 12 September 2005.Structure, Determinants and Political Consequences of Political Attitudes: Evidence from Serbia
by Bojan Todosijevic
Defense Committee: Andras Kovacs, Nationalism Studies Program, CEU; Gabor Toka, CEU, Bernhard Wessels, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 8 September 2005.Between Fear and Freedom: Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar
by Kamila Stullerova
Defense Committee: Janos Kis, CEU; Frantisek Novosad, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Petr Lom, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 25 August 2005.On Klosko's Account of Political Obligation
by Serhiy Pukas
Defense Committee: Nenad Dimitrijevic, CEU; George Klosko, University of Virginia; János Kis, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 6 May 2005.Well-Being and Risk
by Gergely Bognar
Defense Committe: John Broome, Oxford University, UK; Ferenc Huoranszki, Philosophy Dept., CEU; Imre Orthmayr, ELTE; Balázs Váradi, CEU; János Kis, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 4 March 2005.
Payments for Services Free by Law in the Russian Public Health Care: Analysis of a Hidden Institution
by Maxim Ryabkov
Defense Committee: Paul Anand, Open University; Tamás Meszerics, CEU; Balázs Váradi, CEU supervisor. Defended: 12 November 2004.Evolutionary Accounts of Ethics and Moral Behavior
by Viktor Bohm
Defense Committee: Anthony O’Hear, University of Buckingham; Csaba Pleh, BME; Janos Kis, CEU supervisor; Lorand Ambrus-Lakatos, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 20 January 2004.
Liberalism and Nation Building
by Zidas Daskalovski
Defense Committee: Nenad Dimitrijevic, CEU; Janos Kis, CEU; Ferid Muhic, University Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia; Andras Bozoki, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 11 December 2003.Freedom of the Media in Hungary, 1990-2002
by Peter Bajomi-Lazar
Defense Committee: Andras Bozoki, CEU; Miklos Haraszti; Robert L. Stevenson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US; Miklos Sukosd, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 25 September 2003.The Relationship between Democratisation and the Invigoration of Civil Society in Hungary, Poland and Romania
by Mehmet Umut Korkut
Defense Committee: Aurel Braun, University of Toronto, Reinald Doebel, University of Muenster; Zsolt Enyedi, CEU; Andras Bozoki, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 23 June 2003.The Politics of Soft Credits in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Estonia and Poland compared
by Gallina Andronova Vincelette
Defense Committee: Heather Elms, CEU Business School, Bela Greskovits, IRES and Political Science Dept., CEU; Juliet Johnson, McGill University, Canada; Mihaly Laki, CEU; Lorand Ambrus-Lakatos, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 10 June 2003.Community Action for Collective Goods: An interdisciplinary approach to the internal and external solutions to collective action problems (The case of Hungarian condominiums)
by Annamaria Orban
Defense Committee: Laszlo Bruszt, CEU; Russell Hardin, New York University, Stanford University, US; Tamas Meszerics, CEU; Balazs Varadi, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 23 May 2003.Shaping the Path to Labor Weakness:The Interplay of Political Strategies and Institutional Structures in Post-Communist Central Eastern Europe
by Sabina Avdagic
Defense Committee: David Ost, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, US; Jonas Pontusson, Cornell University, US; Gabor Toka, CEU; Laszlo Bruszt, CEU supervisor; Bela Greskovits, CEU supervisor.
Defended: 18 March 2003.
The Autonomy of the Person in Rawls's Theory of Justice
by Dusan Pavlovic
Defense Committee: Pavel Barsa, Charles University, Prague; Nenad Dimitrijevic, CEU; Tamás Meszerics, CEU; János Kis, CEU supervisor
Defended: 24 October 2002
The Hungarian Minority Parliamentary Commissioner and the Anti-Discrimination Principle
by Andrea Krizsan
Defense Committee: Sándor Judit, CEU; Kis János, CEU.
Defended: 20 November 2001