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Department of Political and Social Sciences

We focus on contemporary challenges facing European politics and societies

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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 focus on the interplay of institutional dynamics with their behavioral context.

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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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Virtual Open Days 2023

At the Department of Social Political Sciences

The EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences invites interested researchers and prospective applicants to learn more about the PhD programme at the SPS Department during this year's Virtual Open Days

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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

SPS theses of the month: November

The EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences is delighted to announce that during the month of November two PhD researchers have successfully defended their dissertation.

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From EUI to LSE: Professor Elias Dinas on CIVICA's faculty visits

EUI Professor and Head of the SPS Department Elias Dinas is one of the academics selected for the first edition of the CIVICA Faculty Short Visits Scheme. In an interview, we asked Professor Dinas about his intense one-week journey from the EUI to the LSE.

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Professor Jeffrey Checkel to lead the Qualitative Methods Section of APSA

EUI Professor Jeffrey T. Checkel was recently elected President-elect of the American Political Science Association's (APSA) Organised Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. His two-year term will be followed by a second (2025-2027) as the Section's President.

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Events

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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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