Past Research Seminars

2022-2023

The DPP Faculty & PhD seminar series is the forum for DPP faculty and doctoral students in the DSPS Public Policy track to share findings from ongoing and recently concluded research projects. Each seminar features the presentation of a single paper and discussion with the audience. The schedule of the DPP Research Seminars in Academic Year 2022-2023 will be announced soon.

To join a seminar, please send an email to the DPP Office (dppevents@ceu.edu).

A preliminary program of the DPP Research Seminars can be found below.

Spring term

April 12, 13-30-15:00

Samuel Kiiru: Universities and Knowledge Transfer in Agriculture: Is there a north-south dichotomy

May 9, 13-30-15:00

1st Year PhD Student Presentations

May 11, 13-30-15:00

1st Year PhD Student Presentations

Winter term

January 18, 13-30-15:00

Jacopo Resti: Seeing like taxpayers: tax morale in post-revolutionary Sudan

February 22, 13-30-15:00

Szilvia Nagy: Translating The Vision of Negotiating The Role Of Culture In The European Union's Foreign Policy

March 1, 13-30-15:00

Evelyne Huebscher: Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 

March 29, 13-30-15:00

Antonio Salvador Alcazar: 'Rule, Europa': Coloniality and the Global Souths in EU Trade Policy Discourse

Fall term

October 19, 13:30-15:00

Martin Kahanec: Living Wages Globally

November 9, 13:30-15:00

Dominik Brenner and Mihaly Fazekas: The Political Economy of Legislative Favoritism - Introducing the Global Corruption Observatory and its Large-Scale Datasets

November 30, 13:30-15:00

Lajos Bokros: China and India: Competition of Alternative Institutional Models for Economic Growth and Societal Developments

December 7, 13:30-15:00

Michael Dorsch: From the Street to the Ballot Box? The BLM Protest Movement and Voting in U.S. Federal Elections 

2021-2022

October 20, 13:30-14:30, QS B-505

Nick Sitter (Professor, DPP): The V4, EU Security and Defence Policy: Strategic Autonomy or Illiberal Cacophony?

November 10, 13:30-14:30, QS B-505

Ljubica NedelkoskaDiasporas and Development (Visiting Professor, DPP)

November 17, 13:30-14:30, QS B-505

Anand Murugesan (Assistant Professor, DPP): "Born in the U.S.A": The American opioid epidemic and child outcomes

November 24, 13:30-14:30, QS B-505

Lajos Bokros (Professor, DPP): The Tragedy of Transition: Development, Deterioration, Decay. The Case of Hungary 1990 - 2020

January 12, 13:30-14:30, QS D-108

Reka Branyiczki (PhD Student, DPP): Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes 

February 9, 13:30-14:30, QS D-108

Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia (Georg Soros Visiting Chair): Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society

March 9, 13:30-14:30, QS D-108

Daniel Muth (PhD Student, DPP): Can Revenue Recycling Sweeten the Pot of Stringent Carbon Pricing? A Comparison of Thirty National-Level Policies 

March 16, 13:30-14:30, QS D-108

Simon Reich (George Soros Visiting Chair): Across Type, Time and Space: American Grand Strategy in Comparative Perspective 

April 13, 13:30-15:00, QS D-317

Presentations of 1st-year DPP PhD Students

Isabelle Karabajakian: Diasporas and integration: The case of LGBTQ+ refugees

Rebeca Marques Rocha: Nightlife, substance use and public health: including event organizers in the harm reduction agenda

April 27, 13:30-15:00, QS D-317

Presentations of 1st-year DPP PhD Students

Laura Palencikova:Digital Transformation in Higher Education: Accounting for System-level Perspective

Simon Trlifaj: Innovation: Theoretical Conceptualizations and Policy Impacts 

May 25, 13:30-15:00, QS D-317

Presentations of 1st-year DPP PhD Students

Nu Thuy Duong Ton: Immigrants and Automation: unraveling the puzzle of misblaming

Jacopo Resti: Seeing like a taxpayer: Tax morale in post-revolutionary Sudan

June 15, 13:30-14:30, QS D-317

Taraf Abu Hamdan (PhD Student, DPP)

Winter Term, 2022

Fall Term, 2020

October 21, 14:30 - 15:30, QS B-319 Senate

Florian Weiler (Assistant Professor, DPP): Interest group networks in the European Union

November 11, 14:30 - 15:30

Martin Kahanec (Professor, Acting Dean) and Magdalena Ulceluse (University of Groningen): EU accession, transitional arrangements, and self-employment: No diversion after all?

November 18, 14:30 - 15:30

David Mihalyi (Natural Resource Governance Institute), Valentin Lang (University of Mannheim) and Andrea Presbitero (Johns Hopkins University): Borrowing Costs after Debt Relief

December 16, 14:30 - 15:30

Anand Murugasan (Assistant Professor, DPP): History, trust in institutions and regulatory compliance (Paper with Michael Dorsch, Associate Professor, DPP)

Winter Term, 2021

February 24, 13:30-14:30

Martin Kahanec (Professor, Acting Dean): The Impact of Mass Antigen Testing for Covid-19 on the Prevalence of the Disease

March 10, 13:30-14:30

Evelyne Hübscher (Associate Professor, SPP): Voter Attitudes towards Fiscal Trade-offs: Evidence from Three Countries (co-authored with Zbigniew Truchlewski, London School of Economics and Thomas Sattler, University of Geneva).

March 17, 13:30-14:30

Kirill Shamiev (PhD student): Civil-Military Relations and The Russian Defense Reform: A Security Coalition Approach.

March 24, 13:30-14:30

Lajos Bokros (Professor, DPP): Socialism – The Tragedy of an Idea. Possible? Inevitable? Desirable? (Featuring a preview of the book to be published).

Spring Term, 2021 

April 28, 13:30-14:30

Natalia Dziadyk (PhD Student): Political Participation of Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe: How does Empowerment Shape Migrants' Political Participation in Prague and Warsaw? (Discussant: Andrea Krizsan, Associate Professor, DPP)

Szilvia Nagy (PhD Student): "Translating the Vision": Practices of Cultural Strategy Translation in the Eastern Partnerships Initiative. (Discussant: Marie-Pierre Granger, Associate Professor, DPP)

May 12, 13:30-14:30

Samuel Kiiru ( PhD Student): Knowledge Production, Transfer and Utilization in Agriculture. (Discussant: Anand Murugesan, Assistant Professor, DPP)

June 16, 13:30-14:30

Marissa Gutierrez-VicarioHow can arts-based practices be used in the measurement of human rights education and promotion of its knowledge within communities?