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ANNUAL DOCTORAL CONFERENCE 2015
Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations
Participants and Paper Proposals for Panel Sessions
20 April, Monday
PANEL #01
POLITICAL ECONOMY I (PERG)
Ardi Priks
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Ceu, PE track
Imre Szabo
Public service protest and institutional. position of the labour movement - case of ireland
CEU, PE track
Emrah Karagouz
Political Economy of Innovation: Direction vs. Pace of Innovation Policy Change
CEU, PE track
Luis Ernesto T. Moreno, University
Health care and clientilism: comparing the Mediterranean and South America
of Southern Denmark
PANEL #02
AUTHORITARIANISM
Asli Karaca
CEU, CP track
Maerz Seraphine
CEU, CP track
Medet Tiulegenov
CEU (modular), CP track
Understanding Islamism and Authoritarianism through the Footsteps of Women’s
Political Activism in Egypt (2000-2014)
PANEL #03
Pavol Hardos
CEU, PT track
Viktor Ivankovic
CEU, PT track
Man Kong Li
CEU, PT track
Jelena Belic
CEU, PT track
The Many Worlds of Autocracies
Discussant
Chair
Time and place
Magdalena
Bernaciak
Renira Angeles
Monday, 20 April
9:00-10:30
Researcher
European Trade
Union Institue
PhD candidate
CEU, PE track
Popper room
Discussant
Chair
Time and place
Bernardo
Fazendeiro
Localizing norms: a comparative perspective on human rights and gender in Central Asia
Visiting Professor
CEU - IRES
POLITICAL THEORY
Discussant
TBA
Monday, 20 April
9:00-10:30
Gellner room
Chair
Time and place
What Do We Owe Conspiracy Theorists? Public Reason in the Age of Paranoia
Why We Value Equality: The Telic-Deontic Split and the Concept of Constitutive Value
Towards a Basis of Socialism
Andres Moles
Assisstant Professor
CEU - POLS, PHIL
TBA
Monday, 20 April
11:00-12:30
Senate room
When we should coerce each other? Cosmopolitan account of just institutions
PANEL #04
EUROPEAN UNION
Discussant
Chair
Time and place
Shane Markowitz
CEU, IR track
Vija Pakalkaite
CEU, PP track
Stefan Roch
CEU, PP track
Elena Cristina Balea
CEU, CP track
Into the laboratory: the sociotechnical negotiation of genetically modified crops in the
European Union
‘Fuzzy’ Europeanization in the EU natural gas market: the cases of Lithuania, Hungary
and Romania
Contested outcomes, constrained process: Assessing the performance of EU Twinning
projects towards administrative reform in Moldova
Agnes Batory
Olga Loblova
Monday, 20 April
11:00-12:30
Professor
CEU-DPP, CPS, CEUR
PhD candidate
CEU, PP track
Gellner room
PANEL #05
POLITICAL ECONOMY II (PERG)
Discussant
Chair
Time and place
Mark
Hallerberg
Gergo MedveBalint
Professor
Hertie School of
Governance
Research Fellow
Hungarian Academy
of Sciences
Popper room
CONFLICTS
Discussant
Chair
Time and place
We are not so different at all. The role of foreign insurgents in Kosovo and Chechnya
Gregory
Mitrovich
Anita Halasz
CEU, PP track
Zbig Truchlewski
CEU, PE track
Gorana Misic
CEU, PP track
Daniel Schultz, European University
Institute
Mauro Pinto
University L'Orientale di
Napoli/University of S. Denmark
PANEL #06
Alexander Akbik
CEU, IR track
Vujo Ilic
CEU, CP track
Andreea Nicutar
CEU, IR track
Roland Schmidt
CEU, CP track
Entrepreneurial Values in Europe in Times of Crisis
Early education: equalization or Matthew effects? A cross-country analysis
The Social Sources of Austerity in the United Kingdom and France
Money in Politics: Political Financing in Croatia
Still the European Bundesbank? Sources and Channels of German Influence at the ECB
Monday, 20 April
15:30-17:00
Is there a "substitution effect" in public expenditures for labour market? A
multidimensional analysis from 1990-2010
A tribal continuity? The pre-war social cleavages, dynamics of civil war violence, and postwar political repression in 1941-1948 Montenegro
Constructing the body of war. Towards a genealogy of the question of (war) trauma
“Stuck in a Power-Sharing Moment and You Can’t Move out of It. – Inquiring into the
negative long-term consequences of post-conflict power-sharing agreements and third
party mediation.”
Research Scholar
Arnold A. Saltzman
Institute of War and
Peace Studies,
Columbia University
TBA
Monday, 20 April
15:30-17:00
Gellner room
21 April, Tuesday
PANEL #07
Norbert Sabic
CEU, PP track
Renata Kralikova
CEU, PP track
Olga Loblova
CEU, PP track
Nikolay Vasev
University of Copenhagen
PANEL #08
Hanna Kirvas
CEU, CP track
Miguel Morillas
CEU, PP track
Elena Stavrevska
CEU, IR track
Jenna Althoff
CEU, IR track
PANEL #09
Manuel Bosancianu
CEU, CP track
Mihail Chiru
CEU, CP track
Sebastian Popa
CEU, CP track
Petr Gongala
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech
Republic
PANEL #10
Ewa Maczynska
CEU, IR track
Leyla Safta-Zecheria
CEU, PP track
Georgiana Turculet
CEU, PT track
Elena Avramovska
University Libre de Bruxelles
PANEL #11
Bruno C. e Silva
CEU, CP track
Martin Molder
EDUCATION AND HEALTH
Discussant
Chair
Governance through transparency tools: The case of Romanian higher education reforms
The translation of modernization agenda in higher education governance
Who’s afraid of evidence in health policy-making?
Julia Buxton
Professor
CEU - SPP
TBA
Mirroring transposition strategies – the rich-poor cleavage and social policy in the EU
MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION
Discussant
Chair
Time and place
The triangle of (non)-cooperation: migrants, diaspora and local actors in Russia
Isabela Mares
Ideas and policy change: understanding the role of ideas in immigrant integration (1990 –
2015)
Professor
Class and spaces of peace: Stories from post-war and post-socialist Bosnia and
Columbia University
Visiting professor
Herzegovina
TBA
Tuesday, 21 April
9:00-10:30
Popper room
CEU - POLS
A European policy network of migration management
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
Discussant
Chair
Time and place
The inequality rush
The Electoral Value of Constituency Questions in Hungary and Romania
Do Candidates Matter? The Influence of Commission Candidates on attitudes towards
the EU
Kristin Makszin
Visiting professor,
CEU - IRES
TBA
Tuesday, 21 April
9:00-10:30
Gellner room
Strategic voting in new democracies
HUMAN RIGHTS
Discussant
Asylum claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The limits of ethical
obligations
Engaging the politics of NGO human rights advocacy: A critical reading of Amnesty
Andrea Krizsan
International’s memorandum to the Romanian government concerning inpatient
psychiatric treatment
The least evident and discussed inconsistencies
in ‘Refugee Law’. Whose responsibility is
Research fellow
CEU -DPP, CEUR
the Syrian Refugee crisis?
The origins of inclusion. Gender equality and path dependent institutional developments
in a non-Western context
POLITICAL PARTIES
Discussant
Do populist parties increase mass polarization?
Matthijs
Bogaards
Political Change in Party Systems: Using the Index of Programmatic Similarity to Measure
Changing Political Landscapes
Ideologically Divided Party System and the Electoral Support of the Radical Right: An
Analysis of the Effects of Contextual Factors on Vote Share Variation
Chair
TBA
Chair
Party strategies and party budgets: what is their relationship?
PANEL #12
GREAT POWERS
Discussant
Chair
Anatoly Reshetnikov
CEU, IR track
Margaryta Rymarenko
CEU, IR track
Sasikumar Shanmugasundaram
CEU, IR track
Aron Tabor
CEU, IR track
Evolution of Great Power Discourse in Russia: From the Time of Troubles to the Concert
of Europe
Gregory
Mitrovich
PANEL #13
POLITICAL ECONOMY III (PERG)
Silvia Fiarescu
CEU, CP track
Lela Rekhviasvili
CEU, PE track
Sanja Hajdinjak
CEU, PE track
Eliska Drapalova,
European University Institue
Politicizing the Economy. Patterns of Political Control Over Market Resources in PostCommunist Hungary
Supplementing the state: Street Level Bureaucrats and Informal Practices
Against all odds: Sustainable use of resources in a transition economy – case study of
Slovenian tourism sector
Good Apples on Bad Trees: Causes of Variation in Levels of Corruption and Government
Performance in Spanish and Italian Cities
Research Scholar,
Arnold A. Saltzman
Institute of War and
Peace Studies,
Columbia University
TBA
Discussant
Chair
Time and place
Tuesday, 21 April
13:30-15:00
Time and place
Tuesday, 21 April
15:30-17:00
Popper room
Borbala Kovacs Thomas Paster
Visiting lecturer
CEU - DPP
Tuesday, 21 April
13:30-15:00
Gellner room
EU and Russia: Constructing Unsuccessful Partnership or ‘Bad’ Socialization
Multiple Identities and Interest Legitimizations of Brazil and India What Pragmatism?
with Responsibility to Protect
An Exception That Proves the Rule? The Ambiguous American Exceptionalism within
Liberal Order
Time and place
Popper room
TBA
Vit Simral
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech
Republic
Tuesday, 21 April
9:00-10:30
Senate room
Professor
Jacobs University,
Bremen
Visiting professor
CEU - POLS
David Pupovac
Time and place
Research fellow
CEU - Institute for
Advanced Studies
Time and place
Tuesday, 21 April
15:30-17:00
Gellner room