Department of Political Science

Quicklinks: Doctoral seminar in 2011/11, 2010/11, 2009/10, 2008/09, 2007/08, 2006/07.

The Department of Political Science is proud to present the annual sequence of departmental/doctoral seminars. The seminars provide the occasion for faculty, advanced, and first year PhD students to present their work.

We encourage you to propose a work-in-progress paper for discussion. If you didn't present a paper last year it is reason enough that you suggest one this year. If you did, then you would presumably remember that it is fun, so that is also a good reason to propose another. Also, if you happen to know somebody whose work would be interesting to our community and s/he is or will be in town, don't withhold that information.

As we fill the slots on a first come first served basis, the earlier you propose the more flexible we could be on timing. As a reminder: the seminar takes place every Thursday afternoon (13.30 - 15.10) and starts in October. Click on the title of the papers to download the documents.

Last Update: February 1, 2012 11:11

2011/12

Date	Name	Title	Discussant	Note
9-Feb	Departmental Meeting
2-Feb	Kim Lane Scheppele	TBA
26-Jan	Andras Jakab	Democratizing the Europan Union
19-Jan	Departmental Meeting
17-Jan	Sune Lægaard	'Toleration, Groups, and Multiculturalism		Co-sponsored with PHIL, Popper Room; 17:30-19:30
12-Jan	Matevz Tomsic	Political Elite and Socio-economic Regulation: The Case of Transition Societies
Winter break
8-Dec	Sidney Tarrow	Revolutions in Words	Lea Sgier
1-Dec	Departmental Meeting
24-Nov	Probationary Doctoral Candidates' presentation
17-Nov	Probationary Doctoral Candidates' presentation
10-Nov	Departmental Meeting
27-Oct	Igor Kotin	Indian civic Nationalism vs Hindu Nationalism in the 2004 general Elections and their coverage in the political cartoons
20-Oct	Julian Casanova	Why Was There a Civil War in Spain: a Comparative Perspective
13-Oct	Niamh Hardiman	Comparing Responses to Fiscal Crisis		Sponsored by PERG Gellner Room
6-Oct	Departmental Meeting
29-Sept	Nic Cheeseman	Rethinking the “Presidentialism Debate”: Coalitional Politics in Cross-Regional Perspective

2010/11

Date	Name	Title	Discussant	Note
7-Apr	Zoltan Dujsin	TBA
31-Mar	Departmental Meeting
24-Mar	Departmental Meeting
17-Mar	Lewis Kornhauser	Policy and Disposition Coalitions on the Supreme Court of the United States
10-Mar	Herbert Kitschelt	Democratic Accountability Patterns. Exploring Global Relations
3-Mar	Departmental Meeting
24-Feb	Lea Sgier	Mediated Citizenship. Political Participation and Belonging of Elder Women in Care Homes		co-written with Barbara Lucas (University of Geneva)
17-Feb	Maarja Luhiste Federico Vegetti	What Does it Take to Be Popular: Predictors of Women Candidates' Visibility in the 2009 European Election Campaign Polarization at the meso-level. The effect of party characteristics on the quality of party support.		Elecdem Felows Guest Presentation
10-Feb	Carsten Schneider	Set-Theoretic Methods and Process Tracing in Multi-methods Design: Principles of Case Selection after a QCA	Paul Weith	co-authored with Ingo Rohlfing (University of Cologne)
3-Feb	Departmental Meeting
27-Jan	Dane Taleski	From Bullets to Ballots: Guerilla-to-Party Transformation in Macedonia
20-Jan	Jason Wittenberg	What is a Historical Legacy?	Alfred Rieber
13-Jan	Philippe Schmitter	The Future of 'Real-Existing' Democracy	Carsten Schneider	Lecture starts at 13:15
Winter break
9-Dec	Departmental Meeting
1-Dec	Sidney Tarrow	Double Diffusion: the Co-Evolution of Protest and Police Diffusion		protected file
25-Nov	Carol Harrington	Resolution 1325 and post Cold-War Feminist Politics	Lea Sgier	protected file
18-Nov	Probationary Doctoral Candidates' presentation
11-Nov	Probationary Doctoral Candidates' presentation
4-Nov	Departmental Meeting
28-Oct	Djordje Pavicevic	Regimes of Public Memory	Nenad Dimitrijevic
14-Oct	Hermann Schwartz	The Global Financial Crisis: Origins, Responses, Prognosis	Dorothee Bohle	Sponsored by PERG Gellner Room
7-Oct	Departmental Meeting

2009/10

Date	Name	Title	Discussant	Note
8-Oct	Richard Katz	Understanding Democracy as a Cause of Electoral Reform: Canadian Jurisprudence and Electoral Reform	Zsolt Enyedi	First seminar in AY 09/10
15-Oct	Jörg Forbrig, Miljenko Dereta, Iryna Chupryna	Book Launch and Panel: Reclaiming Democracy	Zsolt Enyedi Moderator	Gellner Room, Reception to follow
22-Oct	Gabor Toka	Public Television, Private Television and Citizens’ Political Knowledge	Levente Littvay	Co-authored with Marina Popescu
29-Oct	Departmental Meeting
5-Nov		The End of Funding for Political Science Research: Is Political Science Worth It? A reply from Henry E. Brady Further Articles	Chaired by Levente Littvay	Popper Room
12-Nov	Levente Littvay	The Genetic Heritability of Survey Response Styles Genetic Covariation between Survey Acquiescence and Personality	Andres Moles
19-Nov	Milan Podunavac	Freedom from Fear	Andres Moles
26-Nov	Probationary Doctoral Candidates' presentation
3-Dec	Probationary Doctoral Candidates' presentation
10-Dec	Departmental Meeting		TBA
Winter break
28-Jan	Marta Kahancova	Emigration and Labour Shortages: An Opportunity for Trade Unions in EU's New Member States?	Thomas Fetzer	Co-authored with Monika Ewa Kaminska
4-Feb	Departmental Meeting
11-Feb	Maurizio Cotta	Europe à la carte: national elites views about Europe and European citizenship	TBA	Prepared for INTUNE with Federico Russo
18-Feb	Andras Bozoki	The Hungarian Democratic Opposition: Self-reflection, Identity, and Political Discourse (paper 1, paper 2)	Zsolt Enyedi
25-Feb	Daniel Horn	The Political Background of Structural Changes in the Educational System of Hungary, 1985-1994	TBA
4-Mar	Eszter Simon	Dovish Presidents and Hawkish Prime Ministers? Elite Accountability and the Use of Force by Democracies	Levente Littvay
11-Mar	Departmental Meeting
18-Mar		No Seminar
25-Mar	Zoltan Miklosi	The Principle of “All Affected Interests” and its Implications Global democracy or global regulation?	Andres Moles
1-Apr	Peter Zimmerman	Anatomy of Self Deception: Judgment, Belief and the Iraq War Decision	TBA
Apr 6-8	Annual Doctoral Conference Abstracts due: TBA, Papers due: TBA
22-Apr	Daniel Bochsler	Unity or diversity: the quality of representation of ethnic minorities in young democracies	Zsolt Enyedi
29-Apr	Bogdan Mihai Radu	Young believers or secular citizens? An exploratory study of the influence of religion on political attitudes and participation in Romanian high-school students	Zsolt Enyedi
3-June	Ronald C. Monticone	The Changing Balance of Power	Zsolt Enyedi

2008/09

Date	Name	Title	Discussant	Note
2-Oct	Andrija Henjak	Welfare State and Class Cleavages: Impact of Welfare State Policies on Class Cleavage Mobilization	Zsolt Enyedi	First seminar in AY 08/09
9-Oct	Departmental Meeting
23-Oct	National Holiday
30-Oct	Jan-Werner Mueller	Theses on Democracy and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Europe	Nenad Dimitrijevic	Paper distributed via email only
6-Nov	Flavia Jurje	The Impact of European Union Pressure on Immigration and Asylum Policies in Romania: a Structural Account of the Decision-making Process	Attila Folsz
13-Nov	Sari Rannanpaa	Economic Voting in Estonia	Istvan Szekely
20-Nov	Departmental Meeting
27-Nov	Rudy Andeweg	Modes of Political Representation: Toward a New Typology (co-authered)	Zsolt Enyedi
4-Dec	Probationary Doctoral Candidates' presentation
11-Dec	Probationary Doctoral Candidates' presentation
Winter break
15-Jan	Departmental Meeting
22-Jan	Matteo Fumagalli	The limits of a Rapprochement? Russian-Central Asian Relations, An Unconsolidated Regional System, and the Impact of the 2008 Crises	Alexander Astrov	Paper distributed via email only
29-Jan	Tibor Meszmann	The Bridge Never Built. The Collapse of the Union Movement Initiative and Workers’ Marginalization in Serbia (1988-1992)	Marta Kahancova
5-Feb	Stela Garaz	The Impact of Horizontal Concentration of Power on Ethnic Mobilization in Post-Soviet Georgia	Matteo Fumagalli	Paper distributed via email only
12-Feb	Departmental Meeting
19-Feb	Peter Stamatov	Activist Religion, Empire, and the Emergence of Modern Long-Distance Advocacy Networks	Zsolt Enyedi
26-Feb	Levente Littvay	Evolution of a Common Foundation for Sexual and Political Liberalism: The Assessment of Homophobia, Sexual Liberalism and Quality of Sex Life as Predictors of Party Identification	Andres Moles	Download on external site
5-Mar	Philippe Schmitter	Contacting Democracy Promotion & Protection with the Theory and Practice of Democratization	Andras Bozoki
12-Mar	Herbert Kitschelt	Political Preference Formation and Partisan Divides in Postindustrial Democracies	Tamas Meszerics	Paper distributed via email only
19-Mar	Marta Kahancova	Embedding Multinationals in Postsocialist Host Countries: Social Interaction and the Compatibility of Organizational Interests with Host-Country Institutions	Thomas Fetzer
26-Mar	Tom Carothers	Can U.S. and European Democracy Support Respond to Democracy’s Global Challenges?	Carsten Schneider	no paper available
Mar 30-31	Annual Doctoral Conference Abstracts due: 1 March 2009, Papers due: 23 March 2009

2007/08

Date	Name	Title	Discussant	Note
9-Oct	Sidney Tarrow (co-authored with James Caporaso)	Polanyi in Brussels: European Institutions and the Embedding of Markets in Society	Bela Greskovits	Paper distributed via email only.
16-Oct	Tom Carothers	How Democracies Emerge: The ‘Sequencing’ Fallacy	Philippe Schmitter	will start only 4:00 pm
23-Oct	National Holiday
30-Oct	Tibor Meszmann	Cancelled
8-Nov	Departmental Meeting
13-Nov	Matteo Fumagalli	Towards a Strategic-Relational Approach to post-Soviet Ethno-Political Mobilization. The Case of Uzbeks outside Uzbekistan	Erin Jenne	Paper distributed via email only.
20-Nov	Natalia Timus	The Influence of European Integration Process outside EU borders	Matteo Fumagalli
27-Nov	Jan-Werner Mueller	A General Theory of Constitutional Patriotism	Nenad Dimitrijevic
4-Dec	1st year PhD students' presentation
11-Dec	Departmental Meeting
Winter break
15-Jan	Departmental Meeting
22-Jan	Daniel Horn	Indicators of Stratification and Standardization and the Inequality of Opportunity and Effectiveness of Education - a multilevel analysis of institutional effects.	Robert Hancke	Working paper
29-Jan	Sevgi Adak	Turkish Secularism in the Making: State Influence on Religious Practices and the Case of Ramadans of the Early Republic	Zsolt Enyedi	Paper distributed via email only.
5-Feb	Andrija Henjak	Information effects on support for the EU in CEE countries	Levente Littvay	co-authored with Tania Gosselin
12-Feb	Departmental Meeting
19-Feb	Anna Horvath	Informal governance and EU committees: the Social Protection Committee after the 2004 Enlargement	Annabelle Littoz Monnet	Paper distributed via email only. will start only 3:30 pm
26-Feb	Petra Reszketo	Transfer Absorption Problems as Government Failures	Tamas Meszerics
4-Mar	Youngmi Kim	Intra-party Politics and Minority Coalition Government in South Korea	Zsolt Enyedi
11-Mar	Hebert Kitschelt	A Data Base for studying Citizen-Politician Linkage and Public Policy Download: Project Proposal \| Sample Survey	--	A talk about some of the methodological difficulties. will start only 3:30 pm
18-Mar	Jan Erk	Federalism, Society, and the Direction of Institutional Change	Anton Pelinka
25-Mar	Sonja Amadae	The Cold War, Nuclear Brinkmanship, and their Prisoner's Dilemma Legacy	Tamas Meszerics	no paper
31-Mar 2-April	Annual Doctoral Conference Abstracts due: 3 March 2008, Papers due: 21 March 2008

2006/07

Date	Name	Title	Discussant	Note
17-Oct	Anton Pelinka	Europe Facing the Challenge of War and Peace: On Functions and Structures of the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy	Paul Roe
24-Oct	Oana Lup	The relevance of personal social networks for individual political behavior: the case of Hungary	Balazs Vedres
31-Oct	Andras Bozoki	Current Hungarian Politics - An Interactive Seminar		No paper
7-Nov		Departmental Meeting
14-Nov	Alexandra Krause	German labour market reforms in the light of a new justice principle: from redistribution to equal access	Anil Duman
21-Nov	Anil Duman	Are Social Safety Nets Protected in Developing Countries at the Age of Globalization?	Dorothee Bohle
28-Nov	Tamas Meszerics	Voting for Oneself: Making Sense of Common Intuitions	Janos Kis
4-Dec	1st year PhD students' presentation
Winter break
16-Jan	Peter Dahlgren	Civic Identity and Activism: the Frame of Radical Democracy	Miklos Sukosd
23-Jan	Andrija Henjak	Population Ageing and Distributive Conflicts: Age Distributive Divisions in Western Europe	Svetoslav Salkin
30-Jan	Orji Nkwachukwu	Explaining the Institutionalization of Power-sharing in Nigeria: A Hypothesis	Robert Sata
6-Feb		Departmental Meeting
13-Feb	Hermann Schmitt	Meaningful Choices, Political Supply, and Institutional Effectiveness	Levente Littvay
20-Feb	Peter Grajzl	Fostering Civil Society to Build Institutions: Why and When	Anil Duman
27-Feb		Departmental Meeting
6-Mar	Eszter Simon	American and British Wars: The Relationship between Imperial Status and War Proneness	TBA
13-Mar		No Seminar
20-Mar	Levente Littvay	Background papers to consult	N. A.
27-Mar	Attila Tanyi	The Case for Authority	Zoltan Miklosi
2-3 Apr.	Annual Doctoral Conference
3-4 Apr.	Liz Spencer	Workshop on Qualitative Data Analysis	N. A.

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