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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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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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SPS theses of the month: May

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

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EUI researcher scrutinises job placement and the gender gap in political science

EUI PhD researcher Joris Frese has published an analysis of the academic job-placement success of hundreds of political science departments worldwide. The EUI scores well, both for placement overall and for the placement of female graduates. But a global gender gap in hiring and promotion persists.

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Events

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6 June 2023

Working group

Department of Political and Social Sciences

The Know-How to Rule

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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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Call for a Guest Lecturer

at the SPS Summer Academy in September 2023

Are you a political scientist or sociologist working in Central and Eastern Europe? Then join us as a guest lecturer at the SPS Summer Academy 4-8 September 2023.

Deliver a 1.5-hour lecture on your research to motivated students coming from all over Europe and beyond, and receive a fully-funded week-long research stay at the EUI.

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