UPCOMING EVENTS
Voting Behavior Mini Conference
April 29 - 3:30PM
Nador u. 9;
Monument Building, Room 203
The following papers will be presented:
Challenging the Myth of the Dangerous Uninformed Voter (Paul Weith)
Experts and Partisans: An examination of social network effects (Constantin Manuel Bosancianu)
Economic Voting in Romania: The case of the 2004 elections (Csaba Zsolt Kiss)
Does Difference in Information Really Mean Better Electoral Decisions? (Sebastian Popa)
For more details on the conference and to download the papers, click here.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
The Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies (DISC) at Central European University is pleased to invite applications for a postdoctoral position for the 2009-2010 academic year from scholars holding a recent PhD degree in political science, economics, sociology, or other relevant social science disciplines and pursuing research that is relevant for DISC’s research agenda.
The selected candidate will further strengthen existing research on the qualities of democracy and contribute to the institutional development of DISC. Potential topics for research include: forms of political inequalities in democracies; typologies of labor market regimes; measures of social inequalities; types of capitalism and their relation to social inequalities.
For more details, click here.
DISC Working Papers Available
DISC has launched its Working Paper series with the papers submitted by policy experts in response to the Launching Conference. To view the working paper series, click here.