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Department of Political and Social Sciences

We focus on contemporary challenges facing European politics and societies

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Doctoral Programme

The core mission of the EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) is the recruitment, training, and placement of early career researchers from throughout Europe.

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People

Our Faculty, Doctoral Researchers and Postdocs come from a broad range of countries spanning all Europe and beyond.

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Research

We focus on the interplay of institutional dynamics with their behavioral context.

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Seminars & Teaching

We are one of Europe’s leading centres for research on comparative politics, political behaviour and political sociology, the sociology of inequality, analytic sociology, and international relations and security.

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About

We conceptualise institutions dynamically by studying the interactions between institutions – both formal and informal - and their behavioural context. This applies to the analysis of the impact of party competition on public policies, changing family structures and their consequences for inequalities, changing norms of governance and conflict and their implications for politics and geo-politics.

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News

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Professor Elias Dinas and SPS alumni win Joseph L Bernd JOP Best Paper Award

Elias Dinas, Swiss Chair in Federalism, Democracy, and International Governance and Professor at the EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS), together with EUI alumni Sergi Martínez and Vicente Valentim, have been awarded the Joseph L Bernd JOP Best Paper Award.

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Magdalena Żadkowska on how couples cope when children leave the family home

Magdalena Żadkowska, Fernand Braudel Fellow at the EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences, discusses the life stage when adult children ‘empty the nest’ and leave home, focusing on the variation in how couples experience this phase, and on the important role of animal companions in an empty nest.

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Immigrants against new immigrants - an interview with Biljana Meiske

Biljana Meiske, Postdoctoral Fellow at the EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences, shares insights from her research on why immigrants already settled in Western countries often have a negative attitude towards new immigrants and refugees.

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Publications

The Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) specialises in comparative politics, sociology, political and social theory and international relations.

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