His research interest is primarily in voting behaviour and democratic institutions, and particularly the impact of the former on the latter. He is also interested in public opinion, survey methodology, and East European politics. He is co-author of Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 1999), author or co-author of over five dozen articles on electoral behaviour, public opinion, political parties and democratic consolidation in edited volumes, political science and sociology journals.
Magdalena is a PhD student at Political Science Department. She holds an MA degree in European Studies from Adam Mickiewicz Uniwersity, Poland, and in Political Science from Central European University.
Magdalena's dissertation focuses on transnational cooperation between trade unions from Western and Central-Eastern Europe. Her other research interests include industrial relations in Europe, labor and postcommunist transition and political economy of EU's Eastern enlagrement.
Bojana Kocijan is a PhD candidate at Central European University, Budapest (Hungary) at the Department of Political Science. Her research investigates the issue of government failures and successes with a view on what impact this may have on the quality of young democracies. Her disertation is supervised by Dr. Andras Bozoki of CEU. Before the admission to the doctoral program at CEU, Bojana worked as the expert associate with the Agency for Mobility and EU programs in Zagreb, Croatia. Bojana holds MA in Political Science from California State University, Northridge (2005) and LLM from School of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia (2002). In her spare time, Bojana writes poetry.
Juraj is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science. His subfields are Comparative Politics and Methodology.
His dissertation project is entitled "Intellectuals, Think Tanks, and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe".
