The recipient of this year's DSPS Outstanding Dissertation Award is Dániel Kovarek. The award is a recognition to dissertations from the PhD in Political Science that stand out because of their originality and academic rigor.
Dániel's dissertation is titled "Distributive Politics as Behavioral Localism: Local Ties as Heuristics for Public Goods Allocation and Bureaucratic Oversight". The three papers in the dissertation show creative and innovative work, one of them has already been published in the journal Research & Politics.
Laszlo Bruszt, professor of the Political Science department, has co-edited with Julia Langbein a Special Issue of the Review of International Political Economy: “Market integration and room for development in the peripheries”.
Professor Bruszt also co-wrote three articles published in the Special Issue.
