Department of Political Science

Goals and offering

Student and alumni profile

New developments

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Key goalsoffer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary curriculumsupport a broad range of specializationsdevelop analytical, academic and professional writing as well as presentation skills (both in English and in general)improve computer literacy and time management

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Some of the good reasons to study Political Science at CEU

State of the art curriculum; development of skills with relevance in a wide range of professions

Work with recognized international scholars

Access outstanding library and other facilities

Gain research experience

Very good chance to obtain partial or full tuition waiver and stipend from CEU

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Some of the good reasons to study Political Science at CEU

• Study as member of a very international, able and vibrant student body, establishing life-long contact with high-achievers in particular from Eastern and Central Europe

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Some of the good reasons to study Political Science at CEU

• Live in an exciting and beautiful city

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The academic offering

10-month MA program (about 50 students admitted a year)

PhD program (5-8 students admitted a year)

Both the Masters and the PhD program in Political Science are registered by the

Board of Regents of the New York State Education Department

Two-year MA program planned

For details and updates about the faculty, admissions requirements, courses on

offer, supported specializations, accreditation and syllabi please refer to

http://www.ceu.hu/polsci

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Courses running in 2005/2006Advanced Issues in Comparative ResearchAlternative MediaAmerican Politics Anti Discrimination Policy and LawCentral European PoliticsComparative European PoliticsComparative Political ResearchConstitutionalism and DemocracyConstitutionalism and Democratic PoliticsDissertation Seminar in Comparative

Politics/Political TheoryDissertation Seminar in Political

Economy/Public PolicyDiscourse and Contemporary Political AnalysisEuropean Publics and the MediaEuropean Union PoliticsHuman Rights in the Twenty-First CenturyMedia and WarMultivariate Statistical Analysis

Nationalism and the MediaPolitical Data AnalysisPolitical Philosophy and Political EconomyPolitical TheoryPositive and Negative LibertyPublic ChoicePublic Opinion and Voting BehaviorRational ChoiceSurvey MethodologyThe New Political Economy of

DevelopmentThe Political Economy of Advanced

CapitalismThe Political Economy of Post-Communist

TransformationThe Political Economy of ScarcityThe Political Theory of PlatoThe Politics of FoodThe Politics of Labor in EuropeTheories of Political EconomyTransitional Justice

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Permanent and visiting faculty in 2005/2006

Aida HozicAttila FolszBela GreskovitsCarol HarringtonCarsten SchneiderColin SparksDorothee BohleGabor TokaGeorge KloskoGianpietro MazzoleniGreg BognarHerbert KitscheltJanos Kis

Judit SandorKaren HendersonMiklos SukosdNenad DimitrijevicNick JankowskiPhilippe SchmitterRichard ScherSonja AmadaeSorina SoareTamas Rudas

On temporary leave: Andras Bozoki, Zsolt Enyedi, Nicole Lindstrom, Tamas Meszerics

Application numbers for the Political Science programs are high and increasing

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Background of students

The diverse educational background of accepted MA students 2005/06

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Communication Economics English International Relations

Law Philosophy Political Science Psychology

Public Administration Social Policy Social Studies

Alumni profile

Alumni mostly continue their careers in the academia, NGOs, international organizations,

private business, and the civil service

29%

20%6%

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Continuing Studies

Non-profit: Education and Research Institutions

Non-profit: International Organizations

Non-profit: Public Interest and Advocacy Groups

Private Sector: Business

Public Sector: Government

Public Sector: State-owned Business

Self-employed

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Alumni careers in public serviceMichael Canham: first secretary at the Embassy of South Africa in

Washington

Bogdan Chiritoiu: deputy chief advisor in the Presidential Office in Bucharest, Romania

Margit Sarv: deputy ombudsperson for minority rights in Estonia

Peter Vagi: department head for strategic research in the Office of the Prime Minister in Budapest, Hungary

Darius Zeruolis: one of the senior civil servants who was in charge of Lithuania’s European accession

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Alumni careers in NGOsYulia Ghazaryan: monitoring and evaluation officer of USAID in

Armenia

Catherine Hudon: former OSCE officer in Vukovar, currently head of the East European section of the World Hemophilia Organization in Montreal, Canada

Jibek Iskakova: program manager at OSI Budapest, Scholarship Programs

Joerg Forbrig: program officer at the Transatlantic Center for Central and Eastern Europe, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in Bratislava, Slovakia

Sanja Pesek: deputy director of Freedom House, Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro

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Alumni careers in political scienceGrigorii Golosov: Associate Professor of Political Science at the

European University at St. Petersburg

Sorin Ionita: director of SAR (Romanian Academic Society), leading political commentator on Romanian television

Barnabas Malnay: PhD student at Stanford University, US

Alan Renwick: lecturer in New College, Oxford, specialist in East Central European politics

Artur Wolek: Chair, Department of Political Theory at National-Louis University in Poland

Sabina Avdagic: Postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne

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Alumni careers in other fieldsGalina Andronova: consultant for the World Bank in Washington

Maria Danilova: associated press news correspondent in Moscow

Arar Guliyev: account executive at McCann Erickson in Baku, Azerbaijan

Roxana Lesovici: consultant at Eamonn Bates Europe in Brussels, Belgium

Matthew Utterback: Director of Business Development at Digital Divide Data in Philadelphia

Kinga Szuly: political reporter, Representation of the European Commission to Hungary

Rustam Yuldashev: coordinator in the Economic Cooperation Section of Japanese Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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New developments in the program

Hungarian accreditation of the MA program done

Certificate programs introduced as part of the MA program

Hungarian accreditation of PhD program and introduction of two-year MA program is planned and may start as early as next year

Erasmus exchange programs with leading universities within the EU (in addition to the existing PhD semester abroad program with Oxford and US universities)

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Certificate programs in 2005/06Comparative PoliticsSocial and Political TheoryPolitical EconomyPublic PolicyConstitutional PolitcsElectoral PoliticsPolitical CommunicationPolitical Research Methodolgy and Social AnalysisPost-Communist PoliticsComparative European Politics

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Example: certificate in Political Communication

Students wishing to earn this certificate need to complete our MA degree and, as part of that, earn 12 credits and a B+ or better average grade in the following courses:Discourse and Contemporary Political Analysis with Carol HarringtonEuropean Publics and the Media with Nick Jankowski, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Colin SparksAlternative Media with Miklos SukosdNationalism and the Media with Miklos SukosdMedia and War with Aida Hozic

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Other opportunities for studentsResearch assistantships in cross-national research projects funded primarily by the European Commission

Internships with the European Political Science Network (headquarters just moved from Science Po in Paris to CEU)

Conference participation with travel support from CEU (e.g. paper presentations at the annual conferences of the European Consortium for Political Research)

Semester abroad program for PhD students

Publication opportunities: departmental working paper series, electronic publications

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Recent public events at the departmentPublic lecture by James Fishkin (Stanford) and Robert Luskin (UT

Austin) on ‘Deliberative Polling: An Overview’, in September 2005

European Election Study conference in May 2005

`Responsible Party Government? Explaining Party Stances on European Integration in Post-Communist Eastern Europe.` public lecture by Robert Rohrschneider (Indiana University), May 2005

Society for Comparative Research retreat (graduate student workshop involving Ivy League universities from the US and four of the top PhD programs from Europe), coorganized with Princeton University in July 2005

Please send any further questions regarding the Department of Political

Science to:

polsci@ceu.hu