Academic year 2009-10 Political Science departmental doctoral seminars

SCHEDULE OF ACADEMIC YEAR 2009-10

Date	Name	Title	Discussant	Note
8-Oct	Richard Katz	Understanding Democracy as a Cause of Electoral Reform: Canadian Jurisprudence and Electoral Reform	Zsolt Enyedi	First seminar in AY 09/10
15-Oct	Jörg Forbrig, Miljenko Dereta, Iryna Chupryna	Book Launch and Panel: Reclaiming Democracy	Zsolt Enyedi Moderator	Gellner Room, Reception to follow
22-Oct	Gabor Toka	Public Television, Private Television and Citizens’ Political Knowledge	Levente Littvay	Co-authored with Marina Popescu
29-Oct	Departmental Meeting
5-Nov		The End of Funding for Political Science Research: Is Political Science Worth It? A reply from Henry E. Brady Further Articles	Chaired by Levente Littvay	Popper Room
12-Nov	Levente Littvay	The Genetic Heritability of Survey Response Styles Genetic Covariation between Survey Acquiescence and Personality	Andres Moles
19-Nov	Milan Podunavac	Freedom from Fear	Andres Moles
26-Nov	Probationary Doctoral Candidates' presentation
3-Dec	Probationary Doctoral Candidates' presentation
10-Dec	Departmental Meeting		TBA
Winter break
28-Jan	Marta Kahancova	Emigration and Labour Shortages: An Opportunity for Trade Unions in EU's New Member States?	Thomas Fetzer	Co-authored with Monika Ewa Kaminska
4-Feb	Departmental Meeting
11-Feb	Maurizio Cotta	Europe à la carte: national elites views about Europe and European citizenship	TBA	Prepared for INTUNE with Federico Russo
18-Feb	Andras Bozoki	The Hungarian Democratic Opposition: Self-reflection, Identity, and Political Discourse (paper 1, paper 2)	Zsolt Enyedi
25-Feb	Daniel Horn	The Political Background of Structural Changes in the Educational System of Hungary, 1985-1994	TBA
4-Mar	Eszter Simon	Dovish Presidents and Hawkish Prime Ministers? Elite Accountability and the Use of Force by Democracies	Levente Littvay
11-Mar	Departmental Meeting
18-Mar		No Seminar
25-Mar	Zoltan Miklosi	The Principle of “All Affected Interests” and its Implications Global democracy or global regulation?	Andres Moles
1-Apr	Peter Zimmerman	Anatomy of Self Deception: Judgment, Belief and the Iraq War Decision	TBA
Apr 6-8	Annual Doctoral Conference
22-Apr	Daniel Bochsler	Unity or diversity: the quality of representation of ethnic minorities in young democracies	Zsolt Enyedi
29-Apr	Bogdan Mihai Radu	Young believers or secular citizens? An exploratory study of the influence of religion on political attitudes and participation in Romanian high-school students	Zsolt Enyedi
3-June	Ronald C. Monticone	The Changing Balance of Power	Zsolt Enyedi