Faculty

Thilo Bodenstein holds a Dr in Comparative Political Science and International Relations from the University of Konstanz (Germany). He joined the Department of Public Policy in 2009. His research includes international political economy and international development.

András Bozóki’s main fields of research include democratization, political ideas, Central European politics, political and cultural elites, and the role of intellectuals. He has published on post-communist transition, comparative democratization, anarchist ideas and movements, transformation of political elites, the European public sphere, and intellectuals in politics.

András Bozóki is the former Chairman of the Hungarian Political Science Association (2003-5). He was also a member of the executive council of the European Political Science Network (2002-8). Since 2008, he has been member of the executive committee of the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA).

His publications include four authored books in Hungarian (one of them co-authored), two in English (co-authored), fourteen edited volumes in Hungarian, and six edited volumes in English (four of them co-edited), and many articles in journals and collective volumes in several languages and countries. His recent works include Anarchism in Hungary: Theory, History, Legacies (co-author), The Roundtable Talks of 1989: The Genesis of Hungarian Democracy (editor), The Communist Successor Parties in Central and Eastern Europe (co-editor), and the Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe (editor).

Professor Bozóki has taught at universities in the United States (Columbia University, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College), in Britain (Nottingham), Germany (Tübingen), Italy (Bologna University), and in his native Hungary (Eötvös Loránd University). He gave invited lectures at several universities, from Harvard to Hong Kong University, in all continents.

He has been a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, Germany, at UCLA in Los Angeles, US, at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, at the Sussex European Institute in Brighton, UK, and at the Institute for Humane Sciences in Vienna, Austria.

He was a founding editor of the Hungarian Political Science Review (1992-99), the academic journal of the Hungarian Political Science Association. Since 2000, he has been member of the editorial associates of the journal. He serves as member of the editorial associates of the European Political Science, the CEU Political Science Review, the Journal of Political Science Education, the Baltic Worlds, and the Taiwan Journal of Democracy.

In 1989, András Bozóki participated at the roundtable negotiations; in 2003-4, he was advisor to the Prime Minister. In 2005-6, András Bozóki served as Minister of Culture of Hungary.

László CSABA is professor of international political economy at Central European University and Corvinus University of Budapest, as well as Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Author of 11 books, editor of 6 volumes, as well as 328 articles and chapters in books published in 22 countries. In 1999-2000 President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies. On the editorial board of 9 international and 5 Hungarian academic journals. His recent output includes the books: Crisis in Economics?/2009 and The New Political Economy of Emerging Europe-2d revised edition/2007, both Akadémiai/W.Kluwer, as well as the chapters:’Enlargement of the EU’ in: TURLEY,G.- HARE,P.G.eds: Routledge Handbook on Transition. London: Taylor and Francis, 2012 and ’ Hungary: the Janus-faced success story of transition’ in: FOSU,A.ed: Country Experiences with Economic Success’, Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. For more info cf his personal web: www.csabal.com

Anil Duman has received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include political economy, economic development, welfare state policies, and comparative economic systems. Currently, she has been specializing on labour market institutions, social security regimes, and their interactions.

Thomas Fetzer joined the IRES department in December 2009. He received his Ph D from the Department of History at the European University Institute Florence in October 2005 with a thesis on British and German trade union politics at Ford and General Motors since the late 1960s. In 2006 he was a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne and taught in several programs of US-based universities in Florence. In 2007 and 2008 Thomas was a Marie Curie post-doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics, and in 2009 he was Assistant Professor for Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick and also Visiting Lecturer at CEU.

Matteo joined IRES in 2007. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2005. Before joining CEU, Matteo worked at University College Dublin (Ireland), the University of Edinburgh, and St Andrews University in the UK. Matteo’s interests include Central Asian, Caucasian and post-Soviet politics more broadly; the comparative study of authoritarianism; international security; the politics of development; ethno -nationalism, migration, and diasporas; state failure and collapse. His recent publications include articles in the International Political Science Review, Europe-Asia Studies, Ethnopolitics, Central Asian Survey and Osteuropa. At CEU Matteo teaches on various aspects of Central Asian and Caucasian Politics, new security challenges and on Comparative Authoritarianism. At CEU Matteo teaches courses on Energy and Security in Central Asia (in IRES) and on post-Soviet politics (in PolSci). Matteo has been the Director of the CEU Asia Research Initiative (ARI) since 2009.
 

Marie-Pierre Granger is Associate Professor at CEU. She has a joint appointment between the department of Public Policy, IRES and Legal Studies. She joined CEU in 2004, teaching a range of courses in the fields of European integration and governance, European Union law, comparative and international public law, and public administration.

Kristina Irion is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Research Director, Public Policy, at the Center for Media and Communications Studies (CMCS) at Central European University. Her background combines academic, research, and practical experience about the media and communications sector. She is the academic coordinator of the Media, Information and Communications Policy Stream and delivers a range of courses from this field.

Associate Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Senior Research Associate, Deputy Program Director "Migration", the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets and former Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. 

Martin Kahanec has held several advisory positions (the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, etc.). Member of several professional associations (AEA, ESPE, EALE, EEA) and a founding member and Fellow of the Slovak Economic Association.

His main research interests are Labour and Population Economics, Ethnicity, Migration, and reforms in Central Eastern European labor markets.

He has published in international refereed journals, contributed a number of chapters in edited volumes including the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OxfordUP), and he has edited scientific volumes and journal special issues. He is the Managing Editor of the IZA Journal of European Labor Studies.

Youngmi received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2007. Her main interests are in comparative politics, especially in the study of political parties and party systems, governance and governability, and comparative regionalism. Youngmi was previously Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and has taught at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has been the recipient of several grants, including from the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Foundation, and the Korea Foundation. Youngmi has taught on East Asian politics, Europe-Asia relations, Comparative Political Institutions, Public Administration, Ethics and Public Policy, and China’s foreign policy. Her current research explores the role of information technology in political activism, and the impact of political culture on political behaviour. Her recent and forthcoming publications include ‘Between Institutions and Culture: The Politics of Coalition and Governability in South Korea’ (Routledge, 2011), Intra-party politics and minority coalition government in South Korea (Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008), and Pathologies or Progress? Evaluating the effects of Divided Government and Party Volatility (Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008, co-authored with F. Yap). At CEU Youngmi teaches courses on East Asia in International Relations and Comparative Regionalism in IRES, and Comparative Political Institutions and Global Cities in DPP. Youngmi is the Director of the Global E-School Project on Korean Studies in Eurasia (2012-2017), coordinated by CEU and funded by the Korea Foundation, and Co-Director of the 2012 Summer School on Comparative Regionalisms at CEU (http://www.summer.ceu.hu/comparative-2012).

Andrea Krizsan is Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies since 2001. Her main research interests include equality policy, the politics of violence against women, policy change in Central and Eastern Europe and the role of non-conventional policy actors. She teaches Politics of Gender based Violence and Comparative Equality Policy. Andrea has a PhD in Political Science from the Central European University.

Levente (Levi) received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006 where he also studied Survey Research and Methodology. He has held visiting positions in multiple departments of the Eotvos Lorand University and the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Psychology. He has taught a number of workshops on missing data. Predominantly a methodologist, Levi’s research strives to find new analytical strategies to complex problems and research questions in any field of science. Past research has included evolutionary game theory through agent based computer simulations and macro-comparative exploration of the relationship between corruption and democratic performance. Current research includes exploration of a number of statistical questions, assessment of electoral systems and the genetics of social and political behavior. Active member of the American Political Science Association, Behavior Genetics Association and the International Society for Twin Studies. Levi also plays bluegrass and has two cats.

Michael Merlingen is an Associate Professor. His current research interests lie in EU foreign and security policy, and heterodox IR theory, notably the intersections of poststructuralist and marxist theories. His current teaching portfolio includes courses on IR theory (introductory and advanced), foreign policy analysis, and EU foreign and security policy. Michael has published two books on the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP): European Union Peacebuilding and Policing: Governance and the European Security and Defence Policy, (London: Routledge, 2006; paperback edition in 2008; with the help of R. Ostrauskaitė); and the edited volume European Security and Defence Policy: An Implementation Perspective, (London: Routledge, 2008; paperback edition in 2010; co-editor Ostrauskaitė). His third book – European Security and Defense Policy: What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters – is published by Lynne Rienner in October 2011. Michael’s papers on and contributions to EU studies, including the CSDP, and IR theory have appeared in journals such as Millennium; Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Journal of Common Market Studies; International Political Sociology; Security Dialogue; Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen; and European Foreign Affairs Review. He is currently in charge of CEU’s contribution to a big FP-7 project, running from 2011-2013, that examines cultures of governance and conflict resolution in Europe and India. Also, Michael has just embarked on a new long-term research project to explore ways to combine Marxists and Foucauldian insights, notably with respect to theorisations of world order and imperialism. He welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students wishing to work on issues having to do with his research interests.

Zoltan Miklosi received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from ELTE University, where he specialized in political and moral philosophy. His research areas concern questions of political obligation, distributive justice, and the problem of global justice. His current work focuses on the role of institutions in specifying the requirements of justice, and on how different distributive concerns regarding process and outcome may be integrated within a unified theory of distributive justice. His most recent publications include "Against the Principle of All Affected Interests," Social Theory and Practice, forthoming, 2012, and "How Does the Difference Principle Make a Difference?" Res Publica 14:3 (2010).

Boldizsár Nagy read law and philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and pursued international studies at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center. Besides the uninterrupted academic activity both at the Eötvös Loránd University (since 1977) and the Central European University (since 1992) he has been engaged both in governmental and non-governmental actions. He acted several times as expert for the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Council of Europe and UNHCR. He is a co-founder and board member of the European Society of International Law and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Refugee Law and of the European Journal of Migration and Law.

Anton Pelinka has taught as full professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, from 1975 to 2006. He was visiting professor at different universities - University of New Orleans, Harvard University (Schumpeter Fellow), Stanford University (Austrian Chair), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Université Libre de Bruxelles (Institute for European Studies). His main research interest is on Comparative Politics and Democratic Theory.

Uwe Puetter is Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Director of the Center for European Union Research (CEUR). He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Public Policy and Governance. Uwe Puetter is also Academic Director for Public Policy. His research interests are in the field of European Union policy-making. Here he focuses on intergovernmental decision-making in the Council and the European Council as well as the fields of economic, social and foreign policy. Uwe Puetter is teaching courses on European integration, comparative politics and socio-economic policy.

Tamas Rudas is Dr. rer. nat. (mathematics), Eötvös Loránd University; Candidate of Science (mathematics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He completed his Habilitation (sociology), Eötvös Loránd University and holds a Széchenyi Professorship. He is also a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (sociology). Tamas Rudas had visiting positions at Pennsylvania State University; University of Toledo; Educational Testing Service, Princeton; Center for Surveys, Methodology and Analysis, Mannheim; Fields Institute, Toronto; University of Graz, Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, Koeln; University of Erfurt; University of Ljubljana; University of Washington. His research interests are in multivariate statistics, analysis of categorical data, survey methodology, and applied statistics.

Carsten Q. Schneider is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies (DISC). Prior to joining CEU in 2004, he obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses on regime transitions, the consolidation and quality of democracies. He is also working in the field of comparative methodology, especially on set-theoretic methods, in particular Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and its fuzzy set extension. His textbook on set-theoretic methods in the social sciences, co-authored with Claudius Wagemann, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Schneider is member of the Young Academy of Science in Germany (http://www.diejungeakademie.de/) and he spent the Academic Year 2009-2010 as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/).

Professor Nick Sitter's research interests include comparative European public policy, regulation, party systems, and Euroscepticism. Recent publications include Understanding Public Management (Sage 2008) and Europe’s Nascent State (Gyldendal 2006). He has a PhD from the LSE.