Best MA Thesis Award

The Department of Political Science nominates the excellent quality of theses to the Best MA Thesis Award every year. After a thorough review a departmental committee selects the winners of each program.

2022/2023

One-year MA Program in Political Science

- Aleksandar Ivkovic: International Constraints on Democratic Backsliding

Supervisor: Carsten Schneider

Two-year MA Program in Political Science

- Victoria Palchikova: War and development of gender norms: Case of Ukraine

Supervisor: Mariyana Angelova

2021/2022

One-year MA Program in Political Science

- Alessandra Oshiro Minei: Electric Vehicles and Ethical Consumption: An Experimental Study on the Effects of Socio-Environmental Cost Information on Attitudes Towards Electric Mobility and Political Engagement

Supervisor: Mariyana Angelova

- Valentino Petrovic: The Influence of EU Conditionality and Epistemic Community in Establishing Pockets of Efficiency

Supervisor: Inna Melnykovska

Two-year MA Program in Political Science

- Marton Vegh: Sympathy for the Devil? Right-wing terrorism and voting behavior in Hungary

Supervisor: Gabor Simonovits

2020/2021

One-year MA Program in Political Science:

- Anastasiia Soboleva: When Is Power-Sharing Not Enough? Military Inclusion and Coup-Conflict Link
Supervisor: Matthijs Bogaards

Two-year MA Program in Political Science:

Maria Henriete Pozsar: How Discourse Strengthens Online White Supremacy: Strategic Framing on Stormfront
Supervisor: Levente Littvay

2019/2020

One-year MA Program in Political Science:

Nikita Khokhlov - Perceptions of Corruption and Firm Performance in Post-Communist Countries: Institutional Perspective
Supervisor: Anil Duman

Two-year MA Program in Political Science:

Bence Hamrak - Persuasion Or Loyalty: The Effects Of Elite Communication On The Electoral Sanctioning Of Corruption - A Survey Experiment in Hungary
Supervisor: Gabor Simonovits

2018/2019

One-year MA Program in Political Science:

- Ryan Switzer - Unhooding The Alt-Right: Framing and Metapolitics in Far-Right Discourse
Supervisor: Bela Greskovits

Two-year MA Program in Political Science:

- Nils Oellerich - Changing Bank Ownership Patterns in Hungary: Development, Economic Nationalism, and Political Lending
Supervisor: Laszlo Bruszt

- Raluca Toma - Roma versus Gypsy. Do politically correct terms trigger more minority-friendly reactions?
Supervisor: Gabor Toka