2017
THE MANY FACES OF AUTHORITARIAN PERSISTENCE
by Seraphine Maerz
Defense Committee:
Matteo Fumagalli (CEU)
Carsten Schneider (CEU, supervisor)
Alexander Dukalskis (University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations, external)
Erin Jenne (CEU, chair)
Date of Defense: December 15, 2017
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The Fault in Our Parties – Income Inequality, Political Participation, and the Consequences of Party Programmatic Shifts in OECD Countries
Dissertation Committee:
Levente Littvay (supervisor, CEU)
Carsten Schneider (CEU)
Frederick Solt (external member, University of Iowa)
Erin Jenne (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: August 9, 2017
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Contemporary Populism: Actors, Causes, and Consequences Across 28 Democracies
Dissertation Committee:
Carsten Q. Schneider (supervisor, CEU)
Levente Littvay (CEU)
Hanspeter Kriesi (external member, European University Institute)
Erin Jenne (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: July 31, 2017
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Understanding a Public Body’s Intervention in the field of Antidiscrimination in Times of Shifting Political Priorities
Dissertation Committee:
Andrea Krizsan (supervisor, CEU)
Nick Sitter (CEU)
Thomas Widmer (external member, University of Zurich)
Marie-Pierre Granger (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: June 20, 2017
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Opportunity Matters: Economic Inequality and Redistribution across Western Democracies
Dissertation Committee:
Thilo Bodenstein (supervisor, CEU)
Levente Littvay (CEU)
David Rueda (external member, University of Oxford)
Achim Kemmerling (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: June 14, 2017
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THE NETWORKED PHENOMENON OF STATE CAPTURE:
Network Dynamics, Unintended Consequences, and Business-Political Relations in Hungary, 2009-2012
Dissertation Committee:
Balazs Vedres (supervisor, CEU)
Andras Bozoki (CEU)
Zoltan Szanto (external member, Corvinus University of Budapest)
Levente Littvay (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: June 13, 2017
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Political servants, professional guardians, or both?
Political appointees in independent organizations under the Fidesz-KDNP supermajority in Hungary (2010-14)
Dissertation Committee:
Uwe Puetter (supervisor, CEU)
Marie-Pierre Granger (CEU)
Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling (external member, University of Nottingham)
Agnes Batory (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: June 9, 2017
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Lost in Space – Pairwise Comparisons of Parties as an Alternative to Left-Right Measures of Political Difference
Dissertation Committee:
Zsolt Enyedi (supervisor, CEU)
Gabor Toka (CEU)
Simon Franzmann (external, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf)
Erin Jenne (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: June 8, 2017
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Elite Conflicts and Their Effects on Political Support as a Function of Elite and Mass Polarization
Dissertation Committee:
Gabor Toka (supervisor, CEU)
Federico Vegetti (CEU)
Diana Mutz (external member, University of Pennsylvania)
Anil Duman (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: May 31, 2017
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When Bureaucrats Constrain the Grabbing Hand
Environmental Resource Sustainability in Tourism
Dissertation Committee:
Cristina Corduneanu-Huci (supervisor, CEU)
Attila Folsz (CEU)
Fernando Jimenez Sanchez (external member, Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
Thilo Bodenstein (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: May 30, 2017
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Building the Single EU Gas Market in Hungary, Lithuania and Romania: Domestic Interests and the Dynamics of Europeanisation
Dissertation Committee:
Nick Sitter (supervisor, CEU)
Marie-Pierre Granger (CEU)
Anita Orban (external member, Cheniere Energy)
TBA (chair)
Date of Defense: May 30, 2017
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Peace for Whom: Agency and Intersectionality in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Merlingen (supervisor, CEU)
John Shattuck (CEU)
Annika Bjorkdahl (external member, Lund University)
Bernhard Knoll-Tudor (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: May 19, 2017
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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INNOVATION: TECHNOLOGICAL NATIONALISM, EXECUTIVE INTERFERENCE, AND NEO-POPULISM IN THE R&D SECTOR IN TURKEY
Dissertation Committee:
Laszlo Csaba (supervisor, CEU)
Attila Folsz (CEU)
Ziya Onis (external member, Koc University, Istanbul)
Julius Horvath (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: March 31, 2017
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The Devout and the Disabled: Religious and Cultural Accommodation as Human Variation
Dissertation Committee:
Andres Moles (supervisor, CEU)
Janos Kis (CEU)
Daniel Weinstock (external member, McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy)
Zoltan Miklosi (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: February 17, 2017
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SECURITIZING ENERGY: FROM GEOPOLITICS TO ENERGY DEMOCRACY
THE CASE OF GERMANY, POLAND & UKRAINE
Dissertation Committee:
Xymena Kurowska (supervisor, CEU)
Paul Roe (CEU)
Felix Ciuta (external member, University College London)
Michael Merlingen (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: February 16, 2017
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Scorekeepers, Game Players and Political Action:
Normativity and Practical Reasoning of Brazil and India in International Politics
by Sasikumar Shanmuga Sundaram
Dissertation Committee:
Xymena Kurowska (supervisor, CEU)
Paul Roe (CEU)
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (external member, American University in Washington, DC)
Erin Jenne (chair, CEU)
Date of Defense: January 12, 2017