The EUI is an exclusive (small) research institution, offering a high-quality Ph.D. programme in four disciplines (political philosophy and theory, political science, sociology, and international relations).
Faculty members are selected on substantive grounds, all operating at the methodological vanguard in their areas of specialization.
Altogether, the SPS department makes up for a cross-disciplinary environment with a strong commitment to:
- Puzzle- or question-driven research
- Methodological pluralism.
As a consequence of the small and selective substantive and makeup of the faculty, the SPS department does not have a professorial chair in methods, but each professor is specialized in a range of social science research methodologies.
Methods and Adviser
- Actor-centered Institutionalism (Anton Hemerijck, Stephanie Hofmann, Ellen Immergut, Waltraud Schelkle)
- Agent-based computational models (Arnout van de Rijt)
- Applied Normative and Comparative Analysis of Public Policies (Anton Hemerijck, Ellen Immergut, Waltraud Schelkle)
- Comparative and Historical Case Studies (Jeffrey T. Checkel, Miriam Golden, Anton Hemerijck, Stephanie Hofmann, Ellen Immergut, Waltraud Schelkle)
- Comparative Cross-National Research (Miriam Golden, Anton Hemerijck, Stephanie Hofmann, Ellen Immergut, Filip Kostelka, Waltraud Schelkle, Herman van de Werfhorst)
- Concept Analysis (Stephanie Hofmann, Ellen Immergut)
- Demography and demographic methods (Juho Härkönen)
- Event History Analysis (Juho Härkönen)
- Experimental Methods (Elias Dinas, Miriam Golden, Filip Kostelka, Arnout van de Rijt)
- Interviewing Elites (Jeffrey T. Checkel, Stephanie Hofmann, Miriam Golden, Waltraud Schelkle)
- Longitudinal and life course analysis (Juho Härkönen, Arnout van de Rijt, Herman van de Werfhorst)
- Multilevel Analysis (Juho Härkönen, Herman van de Werfhorst)
- Panel Analysis (Juho Härkönen, Filip Kostelka, Herman van de Werfhorst)
- Process Tracing (Jeffrey T. Checkel, Anton Hemerijck, Stephanie Hofmann, Ellen Immergut, Waltraud Schelkle)
- Qualitative & Ethnographic Methods (Jeffrey T. Checkel, Stephanie Hofmann)
- Research Design (Elias Dinas, Miriam Golden, Juho Härkönen, Anton Hemerijck, Stephanie Hofmann, Ellen Immergut, Filip Kostelka, Waltraud Schelkle, Arnout van de Rijt, Herman van de Werfhorst)
- Research Ethics (Jeffrey T. Checkel, Miriam Golden)
- Social Network Analysis (Arnout van de Rijt)
- Statistical Models and Causal Inference (Elias Dinas, Juho Härkönen, Filip Kostelka, Arnout van de Rijt, Herman van de Werfhorst)
- Survey Research and Analysis (Filip Kostelka, Herman van de Werfhorst)