In a public lecture on September 29 co-organized by the School of Public Policy at CEU and PERG, Paul Maarek presented a paper he had recently co-authored with SPP Associate Professor Michael Dorsch. In the paper, “Rent seeking, revolutionary threat and coups in non-democracies,” Dorsch and Maarek “study both theoretically and empirically the political turnover process in autocracies due to coups.”
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September 18, 2015
The School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University in partnership with the Central European University Institute for Advanced Study (CEU IAS) in Budapest, and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin have launched a fellowship program for researchers and public policy practitioners from nine countries (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Iran...
September 14, 2015
In a recent article published in World Development, SPP Associate Professors Thilo Bodenstein and Achim Kemmerling take a look at the paradox of redistribution in international aid. Bodenstein and Kemmerling revisit the well-known, and somewhat controversial, paradox of redistribution in rich welfare states: the more you target social policies for the poor, the less you spend on them.
September 10, 2015
The George Soros Visiting Chair at the School of Public Policy at CEU was established to celebrate the 80th birthday of George Soros, the founder of CEU and of SPP, and the Honorary Chairman of the CEU Board of Trustees. It is funded by generous donations from his friends and family. The position is awarded to scholars or practitioners who have demonstrated outstanding academic or professional achievement in the academic, professional, journalistic, political, or civic world of public policy.
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