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.
Ismail holds an MA degree in Political Science (Sabanci University '09, Istanbul). During his MA research, he has also served as a TA for two years. His main research areas are democratic theory, rights and the history of European political thought. During his doctoral research, he aims at achieving a better understanding of conditions for participating in democratic decision-making process. He finds it highly important to compare what we understand from democracy and whom we exclude from it.Besides these main areas, Ismail is also interested in media studies, popular culture, graphics design, dystopian literature and liberal political theory.
Dane Taleski is a PhD Student at the Political Science Department. His major research interest is focused on political parties. In his dissertation he is looking at the development of parties in post-conflict societies. The EU and EU' enlargement are his minor research interest. His work has been published in couple of edited volumes and some peer journals. Coming from Macedonia he is actively present in the public and political life of the country, where he writes a weekly column in one od the daily newspapers.
Márton is a PhD candidate at the International Relations and European Studies Department of Central European University. In the course of his doctoral research, Márton studies cosmopolitan theories and the notion of trasncendence of national citizenship in the light of the case of Roma, an allegedly non-territorial nation.
Márton holds an MA of International Relations and Economics (Budapest University of Economic Sciences) and a DEA of Relations Internationales (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris). He has been a visiting fellow at the Sociology Department of Yale University, the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, and the Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Márton's research interests include: theories of cosmopolitan democracy, global civil society, transnational social movements, international politics of multiculturalism, the Romani movement.
Dr Daniel Bochsler joined DISC in Fall 2009 after defending his PhD at the University of Geneva (2008), specializing in the effects of electoral systems on party systems in post-communist democracies, mediated by party nationalisation. His research centres on political parties, elections and direct democracy, focusing on young democracies and on Switzerland. His publications include articles in Electoral Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, the European Yearbook for Minority Issues, Public Choice, Regional & Federal Studies, and the Swiss Political Science Review. His new monograph (Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-Communist Democracies) is forthcoming with Palgrave.
Check Daniels webpage on www.bochsler.eu
Stefan is a PhD Candidate at CEU. His academic interests are in international relations theory and development policy, development aid, international negotiations, and state building in sub-Saharan Africa. He is focusing in his research on the functionality of Western institutions in non-Western areas and more specifically on development aid negotiations. Stefan received a BA in Political Science and a BA in Law after studying at “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; “1st of December 1918” University, Alba Iulia, Romania; University of Salzburg, Austria and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Stefan holds an MA in Public Policy from Central European University.
