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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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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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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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SPS theses of the month: November

The Department of Political and Social Sciences is delighted to announce that during the month of November Anica Waldendorf has successfully defended her dissertation.

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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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Book

Dialogue with the Chinese school of IR theory : A CJIP reader

The Chinese School of IR Theory: Ignored Process, Controversial Progress, and Uncertain Prospects -- Images of a Statist Ethic in “Western” and Chinese IR Theory: Locating (and...

LU, Peng; REN, Xiao; ERSKINE, Toni; GUZZINI, Stefano
2024

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Dialogue with the Chinese school of IR theory : A CJIP reader

Journal article

New directions for foreign policy analysis

This special issue explores new directions in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and Diplomatic Studies, focusing on interpretivist approaches. It connects these debates to Brazil’s dominant...

SALGADO, Carolina; SIMAN, Maíra; GUZZINI, Stefano
2024

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New directions for foreign policy analysis

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Brextinction?: how cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit

Public support for Brexit has declined since the 2016 referendum. In this article, the authors argue that part of this decline is due to cohort replacement where many older voters (who support...

FRESE, Joris; HARKONEN, Juho; HIX, Simon
2024

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Brextinction?: how cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit

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Introducing the visual conjoint, with an application to candidate evaluation on social media

Conjoint experiments have enabled scholars to understand the preferences of citizens in a variety of political contexts. We propose a method to modify the standard text-only “box...

VECCHIATO, Alessandro; MUNGER, Kevin
2024

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Introducing the visual conjoint, with an application to candidate evaluation on social media

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Conviction or consent? : tracing the influence of coalition partners on family policy under centre-right ministers

Many studies have analysed what could motivate centre-right governments to develop progressive family policies, given their historically traditionalist ideology. Updating classic institutionalist...

ALVARIÑO VÁZQUEZ, ManuelEUI affiliated; THIES, Milan
2024

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Conviction or consent? : tracing the influence of coalition partners on family policy under centre-right ministers

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Punjabi 'housewives' in central Italy : navigating patriarchy, labor exploitation, and welfare exclusion

The article shows how Punjabi housewives in Italy face exploitation by patriarchy and capitalism. 

LAUDINI, Annamaria
2024

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Punjabi 'housewives' in central Italy : navigating patriarchy, labor exploitation, and welfare exclusion

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(Un)deserving victims : the race-gender-geopolitics nexus of migration discourses in Poland

What makes some displaced populations deserving protection more than others? I discuss this complex problem in a critical analysis of discursive narratives, presented by Polish authorities about...

SAMSON, Zuzanna
2024

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(Un)deserving victims : the race-gender-geopolitics nexus of migration discourses in Poland

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