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Doctoral Programme

The core mission of the EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) is the recruitment, training, and placement of early career researchers from throughout Europe.

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People

Our Faculty, Doctoral Researchers and Postdocs come from a broad range of countries spanning all Europe and beyond.

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Research

We conduct problem and theory-driven research across four interconnected fields: international relations, comparative politics and political behaviour, public policy and institutions, and sociology.

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Seminars & Teaching

We are one of Europe’s leading centres for research on comparative politics, political behaviour and political sociology, the sociology of inequality, analytic sociology, and international relations and security.

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About

We conceptualise institutions dynamically by studying the interactions between institutions – both formal and informal - and their behavioural context. This applies to the analysis of the impact of party competition on public policies, changing family structures and their consequences for inequalities, changing norms of governance and conflict and their implications for politics and geo-politics. 

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News

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Simon Hix named president of European Political Science Society

At the inaugural meeting of the new European Political Science Society (EPSS), a large delegation of EUI professors and researchers presented their work, chaired panels, and supported the launch of a major initiative in European political science.

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Hard climate policy: how a three-hour workshop changes minds

Researchers Max Bradley and Nina Lopez-Uroz explain how a single three-hour climate workshop measurably increases student support for costly policies like meat taxes and flight bans. The key: showing people, rather than telling them, that such measures work.

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SPS theses of the month: May

The Department of Political and Social Sciences is delighted to announce that during the month of May, three researchers have successfully defended their dissertations.

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Publications

The Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) specialises in comparative politics, sociology, political and social theory and international relations.

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The EUI PhD programme in Political and Social Sciences

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