Job Talks for the position of Assistant Professor in Comparative Political Economy

The Department of Political Science at Central European University cordially invites you to the job talks for the position of Assistant Professor in Comparative Political Economy.

3 May

9:00 -10:30

Inna Melnykovska

(Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University)

Title: Big Business, Capital Mobility and Regime Dynamics in Russia and Ukraine

10:30 -12:00

Andrea Wagner

(Department of Political Science, Carleton University)

Title: The Rise of Anti-Corruption Agencies and new methods to quantify corruption

13:00 -14:30

Han Sung Min

(The Department of Political Science, Michigan State University)

Title: Inequality, Winner-Loser Gap, and Satisfaction with Democracy

4 May, 2016

9:00 -10:30

Thomas Paster

(Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin)

Title: The Growth of Social Inequality, Varieties of Business Interests, and the Institutionalization of Advantage

10:30 -12:00

Abel Bojar

(London School of Economics and Political Science)

Title: Do Political Budget Cycles work? A micro-level investigation of pre-electoral budgeting and its electoral consequences

13:00 -14:30

Mihaly Fazekas

(Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Cambridge)

Title: Using Big Data to measure quality of institutions: With an application to political party financing and publicprocurement corruption