24/09/2018
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference for Doctoral Students of Political Science
The Role of Political Science in an Ever-Changing Political Environment
Following the events of recent years, we have witnessed once again that only one thing is constant
in politics: change. While some political institutions and institutional arrangements have
transformed or become less and less significant, new regimes were born. Politicians and democracy
are facing new challenges in which some traditional political actors fall and disappear and new ones
rise. Through a set of conceptual, theoretical and methodological innovations, political science
seeks to understand these changes and trends and their social and political background. Thus, issues
and problems such as the rise of populism, the emergence of hybrid regimes or the transformation
of the European Union have become focal points of research. Our graduate conference organized
for the fourth time this year aims to ensure that doctoral candidates and students from all around the
world present how their research and results meet this trend.
Date of the conference: 7 December 2018
Languages of the conference: Hungarian and English
Organising institution: Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences and
International Relations, Institute of Political Science
Academic partners: HAS CSS Institute for Political Science and Hungarian Political Science
Association
Keynote speech by: Gabriella Ilonszki, Professor Emerita of Political Science at Corvinus
University of Budapest, Hungary, and Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 September 2018
DATE OF NOTIFICATION: 7 October 2018
PAPER SUBMISSON DEADLINE: 15 November 2018
REGISTRATION FORM: https://goo.gl/forms/U65li38UTxw6XFRu1
Registration fee: 20 € (6500 Ft)
Transfer deadline: 1 November 2018
Registration is completed with the transfer of the fee, after which refunds are not available. Details
of the transfer will be provided later.
We are also able to help finding accommodation if requested.
PROFESSIONAL AND FORMAL REQUIREMENTS
We seek proposals for fifteen-minute presentations. Speakers will be selected after the assessment
of the received abstracts. As all presentations will be assigned to a co-referent to prepare a five-to
ten-minutes oral response, participants are required to provide the full written version of their
presentation (paper or research proposal) before paper submission deadline. We invite proposals on
the following topics:
• Political theory, political philosophy
• Political institutions and political history
• Political elites and leadership
• Political behaviour, political sociology and political communication
• Public policy (e.g. security policy, geopolitics, education policy), political economy
• International politics, European Union
• Local governments, local politics
The minimum length of studies and research plans is 4000 words. We will provide more
information on professional and formal requirements with the notification on the outcome of their
proposal.
Organising committee:
Rudolf Metz (CUB Doctoral School of Political Science, HAS CSS Institute for Political Science)
Éva Ványi (CUB Institute of Political Science, Member of the Board of the Hungarian Political Science
Association)
Gergely Rajnai (CUB Doctoral School of Political Science)
Csaba Molnár (CUB Doctoral School of Political Science, HAS CSS Institute for Political Science)
Gábor Molnár (CUB Doctoral School of Political Science)
For further information, please find us on the following websites: www.uni-corvinus.hu; www.mptt.hu;
www.politologia.tk.mta.hu, or feel free to contact the chief organiser of the conference, Rudolf Metz
([email protected], +36-30-832-4736).
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Please, fill out this registration form to complete the submission of your conference proposal.
