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. Read more Doctoral Programme
People Our Faculty, Doctoral Researchers and Postdocs come from a broad range of countries spanning all Europe and beyond. Read more People
Research We focus on the interplay of institutional dynamics with their behavioral context. Read more Research
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. Read more Seminars & Teaching
The Protean and Control Powers of the four European Unions Every year, about 30 researchers defend their PhD theses in the SPS Department. In order to illustrate the range of their research, each month the department selects and presents a dissertation notable for both its exceptionally high quality and general interest to the public. Read more The Protean and Control Powers of the four European Unions
SPS alumnus Vicente Valentim receives 2022 GESIS Klingemann Prize Vicente Valentim, alumnus in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, has received this year’s GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) Scholarship. Read more SPS alumnus Vicente Valentim receives 2022 GESIS Klingemann Prize
Strong showing by EUI at the 2022 APSA convention With at least 29 participants, the EUI research community made a very strong showing at the recent American Political Science Association (APSA) annual convention. Read more Strong showing by EUI at the 2022 APSA convention
Researching education and inequalities: EUI welcomes Herman van de Werfhorst Herman van de Werfhorst joined the EUI’s Department of Political and Social Sciences on 1 September 2022 as Chair in Sociology. He is on leave from the University of Amsterdam, where he was Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department and Co-director of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies. Read more Researching education and inequalities: EUI welcomes Herman van de Werfhorst
Read more 18 January 2023 Working group Department of Political and Social Sciences Sixth session of the EUI Social Investment Working Group Read more
Read more 18 January 2023 Lecture Department of Political and Social Sciences Genetics and Intergenerational Transmission Read more
Read more 25 January 2023 Thesis defence Department of Political and Social Sciences The Race is Not to the Swift Read more