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 Nedelkoska: Diasporas 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-Vicario: How can arts-based practices be used in the measurement of human rights education and promotion of its knowledge within communities?