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Research Interests of Individual Faculty Member (quick link)
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The following fields of research are represented among the current faculty of the Political Science Department (broad keywords are followed by more specific signals about areas of research interest):
· comparative and international political economy (especially labor politics, macroeconomic adjustment, peripheral capitalism and the processes of internationalization and transformation in East Central Europe)
· public policy analysis (especially education, mass media, privatization and information technology policies and systems, and especially in East Central Europe)
· ethical and legal issues in biotechnology and health care (methodologies to identify underlying ethical values in Europe in relation to science and technology)
· public understanding of genetics; legislation on abortion and euthanasia
· democratization and elite change (especially in East Central Europe, and especially the roundtable talks in 1989-1990)
· the nature of communist regimes (especially the role of ideology in the creation, institutionalization, and 'normalization' of East European communist regimes)
· moral and political philosophy (especially democratic theory, normative ethics, cooperation and political obligation, the concept of freedom)
· constitutional theory
· political parties (especially problems of democratic political representation via parties; party organization and party competition; pillarization)
· political psychology (especially prejudices, authoritarianism, and the role and efficiency of information shortcuts in voting behavior)
· voting behavior (especially in Eastern and Central Europe)
· discourse analysis (especially identity politics and social networks, also with applications to trafficking in women in South Eastern Europe)
· political ideologies (especially anarchism, liberalism, Christian democracy, communism and populism)
· rational choice theory
· experimental economics (behavioral game theory)
· Cold War history (the logic and mechanisms of strategic planning, aspects of bureaucratic politics)
· statistics (especially the analysis of categorical data and survey methodology)
· qualitative methodology (discourse analysis and qualitative interviewing)
· gender and politics (gender quotas, political representation)
Research Interests of Individual Faculty Members
Dorothee Bohle: political economy of globalization, eastern enlargement of the EU, comparative political economy of Central European transformation
Andras Bozoki: comparative politics (democratization, East Central European politics) and theories of political change
Nenad Dimitrijevic: constitutional theory, transitional justice, moral responsibility, new institutionalism
Anil Duman: political economy, economic development, welfare state policies, and comparative economic systems, labour market institutions, social security regimes, and their interactions
Zsolt Enyedi: 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
Attila Folsz: the political economy of post-communist transitions, monetary and exchange rate politics, European integration
Matteo Fumagalli: Central Asian and post-Soviet politics, social and political activism, the comparative study of authoritarianism, the politics of identity and ethnicity.
Bela Greskovits: political economy of transition and macro-economic stabilization, leading economic sectors and their political consequences
Janos Kis: political philosophy, democratic theory
Levente Littvay: evolutionary game theory, advanced statistics, assessment of electoral systems, genetics of social and political behavior
Tamas Meszerics: decision theory, organization theories, bureaucratic politics, foreign policy, history of the cold war
Zoltan Miklosi: political and moral philosophy, especially theories on political obligation and egalitarian justice
Andres Moles: contemporary political and moral philosophy, liberalism, democratic theory, social and distributive justice
Anton Pelinka: comparative politics, democratic theory, west European politics
Tamas Rudas: data analysis, applied statistics, survey methodology, mathematical statistics
Judit Sandor: Biopolitics, ethical, legal, social implications of health care and biotechnologies, privacy, anti-discrimination law and policy
Carsten Q. Schneider: political regime change, political inequalities, comparative methodology and research design, set-theoretic methods in the social sciences, qualitative comparative analysis
Lea Sgier: qualitative methodology: discourse analysis and qualitative interviewing,
gender and politics: gender quotas, political representation, and citizenship,
nation and nationalism
Gabor Toka: voting behavior, public opinion, electoral systems