Arar Guliyev - Central European University

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Department of Political Science
Goals and offering
Student and alumni profile
New developments
Key goals
offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary
curriculum
support a broad range of specializations
develop 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 lifelong 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 2005/2006
Advanced Issues in Comparative Research
Alternative Media
American Politics
Anti Discrimination Policy and Law
Central European Politics
Comparative European Politics
Comparative Political Research
Constitutionalism and Democracy
Constitutionalism and Democratic Politics
Dissertation Seminar in Comparative
Politics/Political Theory
Dissertation Seminar in Political
Economy/Public Policy
Discourse and Contemporary Political
Analysis
European Publics and the Media
European Union Politics
Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century
Media and War
Multivariate Statistical Analysis
Nationalism and the Media
Political Data Analysis
Political Philosophy and Political Economy
Political Theory
Positive and Negative Liberty
Public Choice
Public Opinion and Voting Behavior
Rational ChoiceSurvey Methodology
The New Political Economy of
Development
The Political Economy of Advanced
Capitalism
The Political Economy of Post-Communist
Transformation
The Political Economy of Scarcity
The Political Theory of Plato
The Politics of Food
The Politics of Labor in Europe
Theories of Political Economy
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Transitional Justice
Permanent and visiting faculty in 2005/2006
Aida Hozic
Attila Folsz
Bela Greskovits
Carol Harrington
Carsten Schneider
Colin Sparks
Dorothee Bohle
Gabor Toka
George Klosko
Gianpietro Mazzoleni
Greg Bognar
Herbert Kitschelt
Janos Kis
Judit Sandor
Karen Henderson
Miklos Sukosd
Nenad Dimitrijevic
Nick Jankowski
Philippe Schmitter
Richard Scher
Sonja Amadae
Sorina Soare
Tamas Rudas
On temporary leave: Andras
Bozoki, Zsolt Enyedi, Nicole
Lindstrom, Tamas Meszerics
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NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS
Application numbers for the Political Science
programs are high and increasing
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The diverse educational background
of accepted MA students 2005/06
Background of students
4%
2%
9%
2%
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13%
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11%
2%
7%
46%
Communication
Economics
English
International Relations
Law
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Public Administration
Social Policy
Social Studies
Alumni mostly continue their careers in the
academia, NGOs, international organizations,
private business, and the civil service
Alumni profile
11%
1% 1%
29%
20%
12%
6%
20%
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
Alumni careers in public service
Michael 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 NGOs
Yulia 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, SerbiaMontenegro
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Alumni careers in political science
Grigorii 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 fields
Galina 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 2005/06
Comparative Politics
Social and Political Theory
Political Economy
Public Policy
Constitutional Politcs
Electoral Politics
Political Communication
Political Research Methodolgy and Social Analysis
Post-Communist Politics
Comparative 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
Harrington
European Publics and the Media with Nick Jankowski,
Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Colin Sparks
Alternative Media with Miklos Sukosd
Nationalism and the Media with Miklos Sukosd
Media and War with Aida Hozic
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Other opportunities for students
Research 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 department
Public 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
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Please send any further
questions regarding the
Department of Political
Science to:
polsci@ceu.hu
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